Nebraska has no budget crisis

Nebraska has no budget crisis

The Nebraska State Capitol. (Cindy Gonzalez/Nebraska Examiner)As a former state senator and chair of the Appropriations Committee, I am perplexed by the continuous discussion regarding our state’s “budget crisis.” Let’s be clear. The situation in Nebraska right now is not a budget crisis. In my six years in the Legislature as chair of the Appropriations Committee, my colleagues and I navigated several historic budget crises. That’s not the situa…