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LINCOLN — Every January, a week or so after the New Year’s celebrations have ended, 49 men and women come together in the State Capitol in Lincoln. Some are old friends, some new acquaintances with very different backgrounds. All are brought to the seat of government by a duty of service to the state they call home.

Each is paid $12,000 per year for her or his service in the Nebraska Legislature. Most senators are employed, and busy, with the demands of other jobs in their hometowns. Some are farmers, some are restaurateurs. One owns a boutique in midtown Omaha, and another is fresh out of college, juggling law school classes.

Each senator comes to the Capitol as a representative of the people who voted them into office. Nebraska’s senators battle for what they believe in — against and with others doing the same — serving a rapidly diversifying and ideologically fragmented public split along urban and rural lines.

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