Bob Coate

OMAHA PRESS CLUB – Pat Loontjer from “Gambling with the Good Life”; Julia Plucker from “Keep the Money in Nebraska”; Senator Patrick Bourne from the Nebraska State Legislature Topic: “Freeway to Fiscal Freedom…Or Road to Ruin?”

OMAHA PRESS CLUB – Darrel Draper from the Nebraska Humanities Council, portraying George Drouillard, who has been called the most valuable member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

OMAHA PRESS CLUB – Hugh and Pegeen Reilly, co-authors of a newly-published pictorial history of Omaha “Omaha: 150 Years – A Historical View”

UTA HALEE LECTURE – Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, co-authors of “The Nanny Diaries”

UTA HALEE LECTURE – Tom Squitieri, war correspondent with USA Today

OMAHA PRESS CLUB – Lee Simmons, Director of Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo, will give a sneak preview of the zoo’s new Hubbard Gorilla Valley, opening this spring.

OMAHA PRESS CLUB – Tim Higgins, Senior Director of Client Services for the Gallup Organization, will update us on <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Gallup’s new facilities in Omaha, what’s happening there, and what the plans are for the future.

OMAHA PRESS CLUB – Nebraska Governor Mike Johanns; and Speaker of the Nebraska Unicameral, Curt Bromm “The Nebraska Budget”

OMAHA PRESS CLUB – Steven Willborn, Dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law; and John Langan, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />President of the Omaha Public Schools Board of Education “The Omaha Public Schools versus the State of Nebraska”

UTA HALEE LECTURE – Jan C. Scruggs, Founder and President of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund