Geitner Simmons
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Staff member & instructor, @UNL_IANR Comms; @OWHOpinion; Plainsman, Southerner, regionalist, film fan; @UNC, @Georgetown; author of sci-fi thriller ANDROID RUN
Joined July 2015
My enovel ANDROID RUN is now available at Amazon Kindle: Julian the android/top White House adviser poses as a noble innocent but behind the scenes uses murder & blackmail in his quest for absolute personal power. Blend of sci-fi, thriller, farce. $2.99.
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The funeral procession for Ulysses Grant in 1885. This photograph, showing 33rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York, would eventually be the site of the Empire State Building five decades later.
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Just want to take a minute to mark a huge moment in DC. The legendary @danbalz is retiring from full-time work at the @washingtonpost after 47 remarkable years. I had the great privilege of sitting next to Dan in the Post newsroom and working with him for years. He is the last of.
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A great American. Country before partisanship . North Carolina connection, too. RIP.
An old pal, a good guy and an old fashioned patriot. We could use a lot more like him. RIP. David Gergen, Washington Veteran Who Advised Four Presidents, Dies at 83 via @NYTimes.
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RT @UofNE_President: Great to join @RepDonBacon and @NSRI_NU leadership team members this afternoon for a briefing on current NSRI projects….
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RT @NavalInstitute: #RIP Cmdr. Vern Jumper who passed away last Friday at the age of 93. Jumper was the Air Boss of USS Midway during Opera….
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RT @80sThen80sNow: William Daniels (Now 98) and Wife Bonnie Bartlett (Now 96) Have Been Married For 74 YEARS! Combined, They Have Appeared….
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National Hog Farmer magazine has reprinted Dan Moser's @UNLresearch comprehensive reporting on advancements in swine research by @UNL_AniSci and @UNL_SVMBS . @NeDeptAg @NEFarmBureau @NEporkproducers.
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Forget contrails. *This* is the hidden conspiracy we need to be focusing on .
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Per my point there about domestic producers' actions when tariffs raise the price of inputs such as steel: .
Fueled by tariffs, US steelmaking giant Nucor raised prices again last month, the latest in a string of hikes that have its US prices 35% higher since this time last year
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RT @UNL_LoeffelMeat: We've been busy in the smokehouse this week and have smoked sausages, chops, hocks, Canadian bacon, and pastrami back….
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Thx @FAOSocioEcon & @OECD for sharing- @GeitnerSimmons @UNL_IANR @NeDeptAg @cfra @USDA @DevelopNebraska @TeamPillen @NebraskaSower.
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With today being National French Fry Day, why not make some delicious French fries with Nebraska grown potatoes? Nebraska’s water resources, sandy soils and favorable climate promote great potato yields. #AgFactFriday
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Outlaw rascality in ol' Iowa times.
Do you know about American outlaw Poke Wells?. On July 11, 1881, Charles Knox Polk (Poke) Wells and his accomplice ‘Wilson’ stole $4,000 ($114,625.88 in 2022) from the Riverton Bank in Fremont County.
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btw, I don't support policy that seeks to put every bilateral trade relationship into perfect balance. Such intervention is necessarily a blunderbuss endeavor. It grossly distorts prices, short-circuits proper market dynamics, and, not least, chokes off the economic liberty for.
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Attn, Upper #Midwest folk .
Answer: Finnish 🇫🇮 (total: 684K). They're largely concentrated in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Minnesota's Iron Range (many came as miners). Astoria, OR, Conneaut, OH (fishers), and New Ipswich, NH (religious separatists) are other hotspots.
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Summer is the perfect time to explore Nebraska’s beautiful water trails! Enjoy adventure, nature, and relaxation while making lasting memories. Check out "Floating Nebraska Water Trails" here: 📝: Greg Wagner.📷: Eric Fowler
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Bison may look friend-shaped, but they already have all the friends they want. Keep your distance and don’t make it awkward. 🦬.
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The USDA facility at Innovation Campus will be a major research site, and @UNLincoln will build an accompanying business accelerator facility for research commercialization and ag business startups. @SenatorFischer emphasized to USDA Sec Brooke Rollins the site's importance.
USMARC and the new USDA research facility in Lincoln are major priorities for Nebraska agriculture and now @SenatorFischer has secured funding:.
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Across the breadth of our country, state and local officials agree that housing affordability is a preeminent public need. Tariff-fueled increases in construction inputs such as copper and steel create enormous obstacles to housing affordability. btw, when imported inputs such.
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