J.L. Schmidt has been covering Nebraska government and politics since 1979. He has been a registered Independent for more than 20 years.
Governor Jim Pillen had an epiphany that paying a consultant $10 million over the next four years would save the state money.
Pillen has signed the $2.5 million/year contract, renewable three times, with Epiphany Associates of Utah to find ways to save the state money. In the process, he dismantled the seven-yearold Center for Operational Excellence which was doing the same thing. The...
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