REVITALIZING FAMILY FARM AGRICULTURE

Agricultural and Food Policy,

G84-729 Financing Roads, Streets and Highways in Nebraska (Revised August 1992)

This is one of a series of NebGuides on financing state and local government. This publication focuses on roads, streets and highways. Roads, streets and highways are among the most important public goods provided by government. Public goods are items whose availability can\u27t be limited to those who specifically pay for them. In the case of roads, collective support for an adequate surface transportation system is long-standing, extending from the rutted trails of colonial America to the interstate highways of today

G84-732 Property Taxes in Nebraska (Revised September 1992)

This is one of a series of NebGuides on financing state and local government. This publication describes how property taxes support local government functions. The property tax is the primary source of revenue for more than 3,000 units of local government in Nebraska, including school districts, counties and municipalities. In 1991, statewide property tax levies totalled $1.257 billion, a sum that approximated the combined revenues from state income and sales taxes

G84-732 Property Taxes in Nebraska (Revised September 1992)

This is one of a series of NebGuides on financing state and local government. This publication describes how property taxes support local government functions. The property tax is the primary source of revenue for more than 3,000 units of local government in Nebraska, including school districts, counties and municipalities. In 1991, statewide property tax levies totalled $1.257 billion, a sum that approximated the combined revenues from state income and sales taxes

G84-729 Financing Roads, Streets and Highways in Nebraska (Revised August 1992)

This is one of a series of NebGuides on financing state and local government. This publication focuses on roads, streets and highways. Roads, streets and highways are among the most important public goods provided by government. Public goods are items whose availability can\u27t be limited to those who specifically pay for them. In the case of roads, collective support for an adequate surface transportation system is long-standing, extending from the rutted trails of colonial America to the interstate highways of today

Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO-Virgo Run O3b

We search for gravitational-wave signals associated with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi and Swift satellites during the second half of the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo (2019 November 1 15:00 UTC-2020 March 27 17:00 UTC). We conduct two independent searches: A generic gravitational-wave transients search to analyze 86 GRBs and an analysis to target binary mergers with at least one neutron star as short GRB progenitors for 17 events. We find no significant evidence for gravitational-wave signals associated with any of these GRBs. A weighted binomial test of the combined results finds no evidence for subthreshold gravitational-wave signals associated with this GRB ensemble either. We use several source types and signal morphologies during the searches, resulting in lower bounds on the estimated distance to each GRB. Finally, we constrain the population of low-luminosity short GRBs using results from the first to the third observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. The resulting population is in accordance with the local binary neutron star merger rate. © 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society

Narrowband Searches for Continuous and Long-duration Transient Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars in the LIGO-Virgo Third Observing Run

Isolated neutron stars that are asymmetric with respect to their spin axis are possible sources of detectable continuous gravitational waves. This paper presents a fully coherent search for such signals from eighteen pulsars in data from LIGO and Virgo's third observing run (O3). For known pulsars, efficient and sensitive matched-filter searches can be carried out if one assumes the gravitational radiation is phase-locked to the electromagnetic emission. In the search presented here, we relax this assumption and allow both the frequency and the time derivative of the frequency of the gravitational waves to vary in a small range around those inferred from electromagnetic observations. We find no evidence for continuous gravitational waves, and set upper limits on the strain amplitude for each target. These limits are more constraining for seven of the targets than the spin-down limit defined by ascribing all rotational energy loss to gravitational radiation. In an additional search, we look in O3 data for long-duration (hours-months) transient gravitational waves in the aftermath of pulsar glitches for six targets with a total of nine glitches. We report two marginal outliers from this search, but find no clear evidence for such emission either. The resulting duration-dependent strain upper limits do not surpass indirect energy constraints for any of these targets. © 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society

G84-727 Financing State and Local Government in Nebraska -- An Overview (Revised March 1992)

This is one of a series of NebGuides on financing state and local government. This publication provides an overview of key trends and issues. Government\u27s primary purpose is to provide public services. In the United States these services are provided by federal, state and local units of government. Sometimes one entity has full responsibility for providing for a common need, as the federal government does for national defense. Often, however, responsibilities are shared, as in public education. A wide array of public services are provided because citizens have asked for them. Sometimes it is a minority of citizens who have made the request. In Nebraska, about 3,000 units of government provide public services and levy taxes. These include federal and state government, 93 counties, over 500 municipalities, and nearly 800 school districts. Other taxing districts include educational service units, community college districts, natural resource districts, rural fire districts and sanitary improvement districts

G84-730 Financing Social Services in Nebraska (Revised December 1992)

This is one of a series of NebGuides on financing state and local government. This publication focuses on social services. Social services programs in Nebraska provide public assistance to individuals who, for reasons beyond their control, are unable to support themselves. Public assistance programs are of two broad types. The first type provides cash assistance directly to those who qualify. All other programs involve payments to vendors (providers) who, in turn, provide needed services

G93-1186 Financing Public Education in Nebraska

This NebGuide describes the costs and characteristics of Nebraska\u27s public education system. Providing public education traditionally has been one of the most important functions of government. During the 1990-91 school year, education expenditures by all levels of government in the United States approximated $330 billion, or about 18 percent of total public expenditures. In a narrower sense, state and local governments committed just over one-third of their budgets to education, and for local governments alone (primarily local school districts), about 43 percent of all spending went for education