Keystone News

With the caucuses two days after New Year's, there's little break from the TV ads and robocalls.

After rallies in front of the White House and Nebraska Capitol, an advertisement that drew more than a few boos from Husker football fans and passionate, hours-long hearings in front of the and the State Department to find a new route for the company's controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline after immense pressure to reroute the project.

Speaker of the Legislature Mike Flood of Norfolk brought the ninth day of the special session to sudden and unexpected calm and content.

Debate begins this afternoon on a bill to give the governor authority over route of the Keystone pipeline.