Seeing how the sausage is made in Lincoln

While there is disagreement over who said it first, the statement is generally acknowledged to be true: “Laws are like sausages. Better not to see them being made.”  To paraphrase, the process of crafting legislation is a messy (and in some ways distasteful) business. And yet that just how this reporter and a friend from Central City spent last Wednesday morning. A trip to the Nebraska State …