A Wannabe Tourist Attraction and a Sure Battle Over Water Rights

Like many Nebraskans, I’ve been to Lake Okoboji in Iowa, which is why I must smile about a special legislative committee’s proposal to build a lake in Eastern Nebraska to rival that lake. The Legislature’s Statewide Tourism and Recreational Water Access and Resource Sustainability (STAR WARS) special committee says the Nebraska version would span 4,000 acres, reach 30 feet or so deep, and…