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Nebraska Regulators Approve Keystone Pipeline Route Days After South Dakota Leak, Shutdown

Nebraska Regulators Approve Keystone Pipeline Route Days After South Dakota Leak, Shutdown

TransCanada received its final required pipeline route approval, winning Nebraska’s permission to build its long-delayed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline across the state... just days after a 5,000 barrel spill in South Dakota shut the pipeline.

The decision will almost certainly be challenged in court.

Visualizing How Much State Debt Rests On Your Shoulders?

Visualizing How Much State Debt Rests On Your Shoulders?

How much state debt is there per person, and, as Visual Capitalist's Jeff Desjardins asks, why is there such a wide discrepancy between states like Massachusetts ($11,000 per person) and Nebraska ($1,000 per person)?

THE SNOWBALL OF STATE DEBT

Today’s infographic from HowMuch.net, a cost information site, organizes states by debt per capita using a snowball-like effect.

Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist

 

Will Ben Sasse Challenge Trump?

Ben Sasse is the man of the hour. On this first-term Republican senator from Nebraska lie the hopes of conservatives opposed to presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.

Conservative columnists beg him to run for president. Erick Erickson, arguably the right’s best-known blogger, calls him a hero and “the voice of intellectual conservatives in the United States.”

Sasse’s Trump Dilemma in Nebraska

Anti-Trump Republicans can’t find a candidate, and it seems that one of the biggest boosters of a protest campaign doesn’t have much support at home:

On the home front, however, the Nebraska freshman found himself rebuked Saturday by party loyalists upset at his call for a third candidate to arise and give conservatives such as himself an alternative to Donald Trump in the fall election.

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