American flags and University of Nebraska Cornhusker banners cover a large percentage of wall space in stores, restaurants and homes throughout the state.
It would be better to re-craft financial reforms in a more productive way with bi-partisan input, not just carve-out special deal making like Cornhusker-kickbacks.
When Chuck Hagel won his initial run for the Senate in 1996, he was the first Republican to accomplish that feat in the Cornhusker State in a quarter-century.