No STARWARS for you as big money for nicer lakes may go elsewhere

It's daylight savings time, so let's turn back the clock ... to four years ago when the state was still contending with the COVID-19 pandemic.

There was a silver lining of sorts to those awful days – a huge influx of federal funds to keep the economy going.

And state senators met on how to spend that glut of money with plans to finally make Nebraska a more attractive destination for new residents, and a place where more tourists will spend their vacation cash.

Lawmakers even had a flashy name for their committee – the "Statewide Tourism and Recreational Water Access and Resource Sustainability...