On May 30, Nebraska DHHS director of Public Health, Charity Menefee, signed a petition to amend Title 179 NAC 1 rules and regulations governing fluoridation of water supplies. Until further federal or state action is taken, amending the 1983 regulation will lessen the harms of over-fluoridation by lowering treatment levels in Nebraska’s community water supplies […]
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A portion of CyncHealth’s December Health Information Technology (HIT) Board meeting focused on social care standards and terminology in development and recommending terminology be mapped to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) standards. Two real-world examples for social determinants of health (SDOH or SDH) were reviewed. The next meeting is March […]
During July and August of 2023 the City of Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, continued to treat the public water supply to a calculated fluoride value of 0.88 – 0.9 ppm which is 0.18 – 0.2 ppm above the nationally recommended value of 0.7 ppm and 0.59 – 0.61 ppm above the 0.29 ppm maternal urinary […]
CyncHealth reports, at its June 15 HIT Board meeting, that Nebraska is the first state reporting all pharmaceutical prescriptions. Details of the meeting follow a brief look at global health goals and life expectancy. Global healthcare goals and Nebraska’s PDMP In 2010, Bill Gates explained in this TEDx, Innovating to zero!, the urgent need to […]
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Nebraska HIT Board to meet Thursday
The Nebraska Health Information Technology Board, administered by CyncHealth, will meet on Thursday, June 15. The agenda and information on viewing the meeting is available on the Nebraska.gov calendar. Many goals of the Nebraska Health Information Technology Board work in tandem with United Nations goal 16.9, to aggregate the data of individuals, businesses and other […]
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General Election Nov. 8, 2022
General Election Notice State 2022 General Election Sample Ballots Lancaster County 2022 General Election Sample Ballot LJS Voter Guide KLKN Voter Guide Voter’s Guide to Nebraska’s Judicial Retention Elections, NE State Bar evaluation poll Nebraska Family Alliance Voter Guide Initiatives 432 and 433 – arguments for and against measures “The Times, Places and Manner of […]
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Stop 30×30 Summit
Is 30×30 conservation or land grab? 30×30, or “America the Beautiful” initiative, is a reference to President Biden’s Executive Order 14008, with the goal of conserving at least 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030, the “U.S. International Climate Finance Plan” signed January 27, 2021. A summary at energy.gov explains, “Executive Order 14008, […]
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Primary 2022
Sources – note some media links require access to NewsBank through Lincoln City Libraries resources page 5/4/22 1011 Now – Over 8,000 Democrats change party affiliation statewide ahead of primary, NE SOS voter registration statistics Lancaster County Voter Registration Changes 2022 Republican Democrat Total January 78,232 70,682 148,914 May 80,014 69,517 149,531 Difference 1,782 -1,165 […]
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2050 PLAN forward
LNKTV YouTube Channel 2050 PLAN forward – David Cary updates, approval 4th quarter 2021 Long Range Transportation Plan – comments through Oct. 6, 2021 News & Analysis – coming soon… Lincoln Lancaster County Planning Department Planning Department – Boards & Commissions and Calendar Urban Design Committee Home Page
9/9/21 – With regard to COVID-19 injection hesitancy, Biden asks, “What more do you need to see?” To this, I asked Congressman Fortenberry’s office for documentation to refute early treatment claims. On 8/23/21, Alan Feyerherm, Deputy Chief of Staff, kindly directed me to “easily accessible” online critical news articles (none in particular). I have not […]