{"id":1964,"date":"2018-02-17T17:18:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T23:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2018-02-17T17:18:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T23:18:45","slug":"cutting-nu-budget-would-send-wrong-message-damage-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/17\/cutting-nu-budget-would-send-wrong-message-damage-nebraska\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting NU budget would send wrong message, damage Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/journalstar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lincoln Journal Star<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>University of Nebraska President Hank Bounds asked state senators to think about the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we want this to be a place where our children and grandchildren will live and work and raise a family, we have to invest in one of the primary economic drivers our state has,&#8221; he told members of the Legislature&#8217;s Appropriations Committee on Wednesday. &#8220;That is the University of Nebraska, and frankly all of higher education.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Casting the state&#8217;s financial support for the university as a moral issue, Bounds, now in his third year as NU\u2019s president, then asked senators to consider the consequences of a plan put forward by Gov. Pete Ricketts earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journalstar.com\/legislature\/cutting-nu-budget-would-send-wrong-message-damage-nebraska-university\/article_a73abcda-5feb-57de-8ced-31096d044fa9.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Lincoln Journal Star: University of Nebraska President Hank Bounds asked state senators to think about the future. \u201cIf we want this to be a place where our children and grandchildren will live and work and raise a family, we have to invest in one of the primary economic drivers our state has,&#8221; he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/17\/cutting-nu-budget-would-send-wrong-message-damage-nebraska\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cutting NU budget would send wrong message, damage Nebraska<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[13,12,10,14,17,8,11,16,15,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}