Nebraska legislators spent much of their recent session debating and parsing the political landscape in two primary areas: the will of the people via the ballot box and the ongoing culture wars, those nitpicky, divisive punch ups, which often cleave communities.

That focus last session was the subject of an excellent article by Nebraska Examiner reporter Juan Salinas II.

While he meticulously detailed the body’s battles over issues ranging from taxes to school books to whether your cheeseburger came from a petri dish or a pasture, most troubling was the inordinate amount of time senators spent on what can only be described as undoing the will of the people.

By the end, the majority had watered down, thinned or undermined initiatives already approved by voters regarding paid sick leave,

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