(KEARNEY HUB) The Kearney Hub reports, "Water-funding problems are bubbling up in the Nebraska Legislature, with some lawmakers trying to reassure those who worry the state doesn’t have a backup plan to address what Gov. Dave Heineman has called the issue of the decade. 'We’re about to go down a very dangerous path, pulling a funding source when we don’t have another one in place,' Sen. Lavon Heidemann of Elk Creek said. Lawmakers Monday debated but did not vote on LB689, which would block a plan to use part of an existing per-bushel checkoff fee on corn and grain sorghum to raise money for the state water fund. A vote is expected this week."
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