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Councilwoman Cyndi Lamm said Wednesday that as mayor she will put the city’s checkbook online in "an effort to restore confidence in city government." 

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Age: 47

Address: 1932 S. 24th St.

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Cyndi Lamm

Lamm

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Age: 60

Address: 5310 Walker Ave.

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Meet the candidates: Five in race for Lincoln mayor

Five candidates in race for Lincoln mayor

For the first time in 12 years Chris Beutler’s name will not be on the city ballot.

Voters in the November election approved limiting the Lincoln mayor to three terms, effectively ending Beutler’s plan to run for a fourth term this spring.

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Gabel says marijuana movement motivated her political activism

Gabel

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Krystal Gabel planned to have a doctorate by the time she was 25, so she focused on education. And she was an exceptional student.

“I really pushed myself. I was told my entire life to have goals, to get a career, to be focused.”

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Gaylor Baird loves living in a place you can make a difference

Gaylor Baird

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Leirion Gaylor Baird didn't have political ambitions as a young woman beginning her college education at Yale University.

But her four years there set her on a path that led to Lincoln and her quest to lead the city.

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Kirkpatrick brings ranch roots to mayoral race

Kirkpatrick

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Jeff Kirkpatrick's busy campaign schedule means he's missing one of his favorite winter pastimes, poring over the seed catalogs, feasting on the pictures of beautiful vegetables and flowers that will grace his garden this year.

Kirkpatrick is into color. But his exciting experiments last summer with a purple striped eggplant and a red Brussels sprout got started late and were not anything like the pictures. 

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Formerly homeless, Cyndi Lamm has spent life following dreams

Lamm

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Lincoln Councilwoman Cyndi Lamm believes dreams don't have expiration dates.

Her childhood aspiration to be a lawyer like Perry Mason in the Erle Stanley Gardner books could have fizzled out amid the turbulence of her upbringing.

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Solc, who came to state as young immigrant, running for second time

Solc

SAVANNAH BLAKE, Journal Star

Rene Solc immigrated to Nebraska as a teenager, all because his mom wouldn’t join the Communist Party.

It's actually more complicated, but the bottom line is this: His mom didn’t get into medical school in Czechoslovakia at the end of World War II because she wouldn’t join the Communist Party.

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