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happygolucky, what is good for CB is good for Omaha and the same for vice versa, let's not create any river-city hostility as the two cities for the first time in history is cooperating at unprecented levels for any metro..

Look at the missouri river riverfront cooperation, both CB and Omaha have been having very good talks and laughs and basically have begun to operate as an entity with two very good options, one on the nebraska side and the other on the Iowa side, both very different but yet both adds significance to the metro and both realize it and both are working together very well and not holding grudges or each other hostage...

As a matter of fact when Google expressed interest in Council Bluffs, the Omaha chamber was extremely happy, and basically threw a party for our progressive neighbors to the east..

Council Bluffs is most definetely significant in the Omaha metro, but without the two markets working together, the metro would not be very strong..

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By the way... that $50 is the rate which is expected to be reached following -10- years of incremental 9% rate increases. Given the scope which this issue represents across the nation... I'd expect to see federal subsidies come into play by that time.

And no doubt about Council Bluffs contributing to the overall metro. Consider all of the income/sales taxes which Iowa residents spend on all those amenities over on the Nebraska side. Nebraskan's get all worked up over all the money which is spent in Iowa casinos... but I'd 'wager' that things even out fairly nicely (per capita) by the time you consider what's going west across the river in other forms.

In the end, we're all one big happy family.


As for Council Bluffs vs Papillion living... eh... I'd say it's a toss up. Each has it's own benefits to offer.