Nebraska

Nebraska is also the name of a 1982 album by Bruce Springsteen, widely considered one of his best. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 82.9 males. The USS Nebraska was named in honor of this State. For every 100 females there are 87.4 males. State Song: Beautiful Nebraska. The median age is 35 years. It is located on the edge of Tornado Alley. In the city the population is spread out with 24.8% under the age of 18, 10.9% from 18 to 24, 29.9% from 25 to 44, 21.2% from 45 to 64, and 13.2% who are 65 years of age or older.

Nebraska generally has cold winters and warm summers. The average household size is 2.42 and the average family size is 3.16. The religious affiliations of the people of Nebraska are:. 34.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 11.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The five largest ancestry groups in Nebraska are: German (38.6%), Irish (12.4%), English (9.6%), Swedish (4.9%), Czech (4.9%). There are 257,996 households out of which 25.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 26.7% are married couples living together, 25.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 43.0% are non-families. The racial makeup of the state is:. 1.70% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

According to the Census Bureau, as of 2003, the population of Nebraska was 1,739,291. The racial makeup of the city is 31.63% White, 64.34% Black or African American, 0.32% Native American, 1.53% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.67% from other races, and 1.47% from two or more races. Nebraska is known for its agriculture, especially beef and corn (aka maize). There are 300,477 housing units at an average density of 1,435.8/km² (3,718.6/mi²). The Bureau of Economic Analysis (http://www.bea.gov/) estimates that Nebraska's total state product in 2003 was $66 billion. Per capital personal income in 2003 was $30,179, 24^th in the nation. The population density is 3,111.5/km² (8,058.4/mi²). Nebraska is one of the six states of the Frontier Strip. As of the census² of 2000, there are 651,154 people, 257,996 households, and 147,057 families residing in the city.

Indeed, one of Nebraska's mottos is "Where the West begins", and a local legend even has it that the West begins precisely at the intersection of 13th and O Streets in Lincoln (where it is marked by a red brick star). in every census up to the 1980 census. The eastern portion of the State could be considered part of the "Midwest", while the western and central portions are part of the "West", although the distinction between these regions is somewhat fluid. S. In regional terms, Nebraska is located in the Great Plains, at the westernmost extent of the Grain Belt. It was among the top 10 cities in population in the U. The state has 93 counties; see List of Nebraska counties. In the 1830, 1840, and 1850 censuses of the United States of America, Baltimore was the second largest city in population.

The largest city in Nebraska is Omaha, and the capital is Lincoln. The major highways serving the city are I-695 (the Baltimore Beltway), I-95, I-83 and I-70 (its eastern terminus is just beyond the city limits). Nebraska is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa and Missouri to the east, across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the southwest, and Wyoming to the west. Additionally, MARC commuter rail connects Washington, DC's Union Station with the city's two rail stations, Camden Station and Penn Station. See List of Nebraska Governors. Baltimore City has many bus routes, and a light rail and a subway system. For the last four elections, Republicans have won all of Nebraska's electoral votes, and no Democrat has carried the state since Lyndon Johnson. Public transit in Baltimore City is provided by the Maryland Transit Administration.

Since 1991, two of Nebraska's five electoral votes are awarded based on the winner of the statewide election; the other three go to the highest vote-getter in each of the state's three congressional districts. The city has a humid subtropical climate, moderated by the warming influence of the bay and nearby ocean, with hot summers, cool winters, and moderate precipitation. In effect, the Assembly (the house) was abolished; as noted, today's Nebraska state legislators are referred to (especially by themselves) as "Senators". The total area is 12.240% water. Finally in 1934, due in part to the budgetary pressure of the Great Depression, Nebraska's unicameral legislature was put in place by a state initiative. 209.3 km² (80.8 mi²) of it is land and 29.2 km² (11.3 mi²) of it is water. Nebraska's unicameral legislature today has rules that bills can contain only one subject, and must be given at least five days of consideration. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 238.5 km² (92.1 mi²).

Votes in these committees were secretive, and would sometimes add provisions to bills that neither house had approved. Baltimore is in the north central part of the state of Maryland, on the Patapsco River, not far from the Chesapeake Bay. It is on the western edge of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, with low hills rising in the western part of the city. Unicameral supporters also argued that a bicameral legislature had a significant undemocratic feature in the committees that reconciled Assembly and Senate legislation. The headquarters of the Social Security Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are located in Woodlawn, just outside the city limits. Norris argued. On November 2, 2004, Dixon won re-election in a two-way contest; Joan Floyd, a Green Party candidate, was the only challenger; the Republicans did not field a candidate. For years, United States Senator George Norris and other Nebraskans encouraged the unicameral referendum. Sheila Dixon is the current Council President.

The Nebraska legislature can also override a governor's veto with a 3/5ths majority, in contrast to the 2/3rds majority required in some other states. The Baltimore City Council is now made up of 14 single member districts and one elected at-large Council President. The senators are elected with no party affiliation next to their names on the ballot, and the speaker and committee chairs are chosen at large, so that members of any party can be (and often are) chosen for these positions. A coalition of union and community groups, organized by ACORN, backed the effort. Nebraska's Legislature is also the only one in the United States that is nonpartisan. Grassroots pressure for reform, voiced as Question P, restructured the City Council in November of 2002, against the will of the Mayor, the Council President, and the majority of the Council. Although this house is known simply as the "Legislature", its members still call themselves "senators". For a full list of mayors that served the city, see: List of Baltimore Mayors.

Nebraska is the only state in the United States with a unicameral legislature, that is a legislature with only one house. His ambition to run for Governor of Maryland is well known. As an example in Nebraska, Monowi, which in the 1930s had a population of 150, now (2005) has a population of one. Despite being a conservative Democrat in a city with a deep progressive history, O'Malley has maintained a high approval rating through both of his terms in office. "Rural flight" as it is called has led to offers of free land and tax breaks as enticements to newcomers. The current Mayor of Baltimore is Martin O'Malley. Between 1996 and 2004 almost half a million people, nearly half with college degrees, left the six states. For most governmental purposes under Maryland law, Baltimore City is treated as a "county"-level entity.

89% of the total number of cities in those states have fewer than 3000 people; hundreds have fewer than than 1000. Baltimore is an independent city; in other words, not part of any county. Nebraska, in common with five other Mid-West states (Kansas, Oklahoma, North and South Dakota and Iowa), is feeling the brunt of falling populations. Water levels rose some 20 feet in areas, flooding underground parking garages and displacing thousands of cubic yards of trash and debris. [1] (http://www.rootsweb.com/~neresour/OLLibrary/Journals/HPR/Vol06/nhrv06pc.html). Many places were flooded including the sports center ESPN Zone, the Baltimore World Trade Center (The World Trade Center remained closed for approximately a month during cleanup efforts) and most of the Inner Harbor. The adoption of national prohibition in 1918 with Nebraska as the thirty-sixth state necessary to make prohibition a part of our constitution. Also in 2003, Baltimore was affected by Hurricane Isabel from flooding as a result of tidal surge, affecting primarily the Fells Point community and the Inner Harbor and surrounding low areas.

The National Arbor Day Foundation is still headquartered in Nebraska City. The City of Baltimore hopes to have it finished and opened by 2005 or 2006. Arbor Day began in Nebraska. The hotel is expected to be built near the Baltimore Convention Center. At that time, the capital was moved from Omaha to Lancaster, later renamed Lincoln after the recently assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. In 2003, the Baltimore Development Corporation announced that three hotel projects were being reviewed. Nebraska became the 37th state in 1867, shortly after the Civil War. Three weeks later, manhole covers flew into the air as underground explosions along West Pratt Street followed due to residual explosive chemicals from the fire left in the sewers.

Many of the first farm settlers built their homes out of sod because they found so few trees on the grassy land. The derailment sparked a chemical fire that raged for six days and virtually shut down the downtown area until the heat caused a water main to rupture, largely extinguishing the fire but also causing significant flooding in the streets above. In the 1860s, the first great wave of homesteaders poured into Nebraska to claim free land granted by the federal government. A 60-car train derailment occurred in a tunnel in Baltimore on July 18, 2001. The territorial capital of Nebraska was Omaha. The concept has been highly successful, and numerous other American municipalities have since implemented the practice. The Kansas-Nebraska Act became law on May 30, 1854 which established the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas. On October 2, 1996, Baltimore became the first city in the United States to adopt 311 as a non-emergency "hot line" telephone number, in order to reserve the use of 911 for genuine emergencies.

Much of the history of the State is the story of the impact of the Nebraska farmer. In 1992, the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball moved downtown to Oriole Park at Camden Yards, and six years later the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League moved next door into the newly renamed M&T Bank Stadium, formerly known as PSINet Stadium until PSINet went bankrupt. Nebraskans have practiced scientific farming to turn the Nebraska prairie into a land of ranches and farms. In 1979 the Baltimore Convention Center was opened and was subsequently renovated and expanded in 1996. Harborplace, a modern urban retail and restaurant complex, was opened on the waterfront in 1980, followed by the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland's largest tourist destination, in 1981. Once considered part of the Great American Desert, it is now a leading farming state. In recent years, efforts to redevelop the downtown area have led to a revitalization of the Inner Harbor. Nebraska a midwestern State of the United States, Nebraska gets its name from a Native American (Oto) word meaning "flat water", after the Platte River that flows through the State. Many movies such as Hairspray, scenes from 12 monkeys and the film Hardball were filmed there, in fact many scenes from the 1972 cult classic film Pink Flamingos were shot in the city's Waverly section (the film was made by John Waters, a Baltimore native). Additionally, television shows such as NBC's "Homicide: Life on the Street" and HBO's "The Wire" have also been filmed in the city.

Chokecherry Places, Essays from the High Plains, Merrill Gilfillan, Johnson Press, Boulder, Colorado, trade paperback, ISBN 1-55566-227-7. Baltimore has become a prime city for filming movies and television. Lincoln Stars, United States Hockey League. The buildings were eventually demolished in 2001. Omaha Beef, Arena Football. In 1955 Flag House Courts, public housing project made up of 3 12-story buildings was built. Creighton Bluejays, college basketball. Baltimore is also the location of Pimlico Race Course, the home of the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. The Preakness has been run since 1873.

Lincoln Saltdogs, minor league baseball. Baltimore is the location of the Baltimore World Trade Center, the world's tallest equilateral five-sided building (the five-sided JPMorganChase Tower in Houston, Texas is taller, but has unequal sides). Omaha Royals, minor league baseball. The Great Baltimore Fire on February 7, 1904 destroyed over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours. Nebraska Cornhuskers, college football. After the riot, Union troops occupied Baltimore and Maryland came under direct federal administration — in part, to prevent the state from seceding — until the end of the war in April 1865. Columbus area. Pro-Southern sentiment led to the Baltimore riot of 1861 when Union soldiers marched through the city.

Norfolk area. Many, if not most, people in Baltimore at the time were sympathetic to the Confederacy. Scottsbluff-Gering area. During the Civil War, Maryland was officially part of the Union but kept slavery legal. North Platte area. Baltimore became an independent city in 1851, being detached from Baltimore County at that time. Hastings area. The city is also the site of the first architectural monument honoring George Washington, a 178 foot doric column erected in 1829 and designed by Robert Mills, who later designed the Washington Monument in Washington D.C.

Fremont area. Baltimore's harbor is the location of Fort McHenry, which came under attack by British forces in the War of 1812 and whose defense inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," which furnishes the lyrics to the United States national anthem. Kearney area. The relatively shorter distance between Baltimore and the Caribbean colonies allowed swift transport and minimized the spoilage of flour. Grand Island area. The profit from sugar encouraged the maximum possible cultivation of cane and the importation of food. Lincoln metropolitan area. Baltimore grew swiftly in the mid-late 18th century as the granary for sugar producing colonies in the Caribbean.

Omaha metropolitan area (including Bellevue, Papillion, and La Vista). During the 17th century, various towns called "Baltimore" were founded as commercial ports at various locations on the upper Chesapeake Bay. The present city dates from July 30, 1729 and is named after Cęcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore who was the first Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland. Interstate 680 (North Omaha loop). Because there is also a Baltimore County adjacent to (but not including) the city, it is sometimes referred to as Baltimore City when a clear distinction is desired. Interstate 480 (Metro Omaha loop). The city is a major part of the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area and a major U.S.seaport. Interstate 180 (Lincoln spur). It is the largest city in Maryland, named after the founding proprietor of the Maryland Colony, Cęcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore.

Interstate 129. As of July 1, 2002, the population is 638,614, and the population of the Baltimore-Washington Metroplex as of 2000 is 7.6 million, up from 6.7 million in 1990. Interstate 76. state of Maryland. Interstate 80. Baltimore is an independent city located in the U.S. No Religion – 9%. Frank Zappa.

Non-Christian Religions – 1%. Montel Williams. Other Christian – 1%. John Waters. Roman Catholic – 28%. Johnny Unitas. Other Protestants/general Protestant – 21%. Anne Tyler.

Presbyterian – 4%. Anne Truitt. Baptist – 9%. Tupac Shakur. Methodist – 11%. Pam Shriver. Lutheran – 16%. Babe Ruth.

Protestant – 61%