Word: omaha
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...million over eight months, local politicians attacked the operation, and the INS backed down. A task force appointed by Governor Mike Johanns endorsed a broad amnesty for undocumented workers, and a year and a half passed before INS agents showed up again. Last month they raided Nebraska Beef in Omaha, charged managers with criminal smuggling and expelled 212 Mexican aliens. Within two weeks, though, the workers were trickling back...
...Here's what I mean. New York sidewalks are about eight feet wide. And there you are, walking up Madison Avenue and coming in the opposite direction is a family from Omaha, Nebraska, mother, father, three children, walking five across, taking up the whole sidewalk, so that anyone who wants to get by must either trudge into the street, hug the wall of a building, or bust through like a fullback on third...
...understand that Omaha is in the Great Plains, where space is not at a premium. You can pirouette down the sidewalk in Omaha if you want to. But space is limited here in New York City. And no New Yorker ever walks more than two abreast; even if you're in a group of ten people, you'll walk in five pairs, not ten across. Or even better, single file...
What about the 30 percent who opposed Proposition 419? Most were young, but they're leaving. According to a recent Omaha World-Herald survey, one-third of Omaha residents younger than 35 said they definitely or probably would move from Omaha within five years. "It's still got the whole hick, backward national impression," one of them said...
...this comes at a time when the Greater Omaha Convention and Visitors Bureau is planning a $750,000 advertising campaign to define the city's national image. No need to do that now. Nebraskans have done it for themselves...