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	<title>American Civil Rights Institute Blog &#187; NECRI</title>
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	<description>&#34;Race has no place in American Life or Law&#34;</description>
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		<title>City of Omaha to Change Rules Violating Preference Ban</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/03/17/city-of-omaha-to-change-rules-violating-preference-ban/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) sent a cease and desist letter to the city of Omaha requesting that it repeal sections of its municipal code that give race- and sex-based preferences in the awarding of public contracts. In response, city attorney Paul Kratz said Omaha suspended the contracting rules after the November election, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Nebraska Trying to Get Around Anti-Preferences Law?</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/03/06/is-nebraska-trying-to-get-around-anti-preferences-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Omaha World Herald reports that the legislature passed a bill to change Nebraska&#8217;s &#8220;diversity&#8221; scholarship program to comply with the law barring the state from discriminating against or preferring individuals on the basis of race in hiring, contracting, and admissions. But the Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative&#8217;s Marc Schniederjans says the law requires nothing less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nebraskans United Will Not Appeal Ruling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nebraskans United, a group that opposes a law barring state and local governments from preferring and discriminating against individuals based on race in hiring, contracting, and admissions, will not appeal a recent ruling upholding the law. (Source) Last week, Judge Karen Flowers upheld the Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative and wrote that the facts didn&#8217;t present [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Race Preferences Ban Upheld in Nebraska</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/01/27/race-preferences-ban-upheld-in-nebraska/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 4, 2008, 58 percent of Nebraska voters barred their state and local governments from preferring and discriminating against individuals based on race in hiring, contracting, and admissions. After the governor certified the results, Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative executive director Doug Tietz said, &#8220;The voters overwhelmingly supported the Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative and now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Official: Race Preferences Illegal in Nebraska</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2008/12/15/its-official-race-preferences-illegal-in-nebraska/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it is written, so shall it be done! Last week, Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman certified the results of the Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative (NeCRI) and officially enshrined the language of the initiative in the state constitution. NeCRI executive director Doug Tietz said, &#8220;The voters overwhelmingly supported the Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative and now Nebraska&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Truth About Ward Connerly</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2008/10/20/the-truth-about-ward-connerly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ward Connerly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  The American Civil Rights Institute&#8217;s (ACRI) Jennifer Gratz, plaintiff in the Supreme Court case, Gratz v. Bollinger, defends Ward Connerly as pro-race preference proponents attack his character, because they cannot win on the merits. (Their concern is well-grounded. ACRI found that 71 percent of Nebraskans say they support an amendment that would end government preferences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative Trial Begins</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2008/10/06/nebraska-civil-rights-initiative-trial-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group called Nebraskans United filed suit against the Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative (NECRI), certified to appear on the November ballot, challenging some 40,228 signatures. The trial began today. (Source) NECRI would bar the state and local governments from discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to any individual or group based on race, sex, color, [...]]]></description>
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