lincoln city has a lot going for it. but any place that needs to go from 7,500 year round residents to 30,000 in the high season to keep everybody working, leaves itself vulnerable to the whims of things beyond its control: weather and the wider economy. the little town must maintain all the necessities of a much bigger one says lori hollingsworth, a massage therapist and the mayor of lincoln city. >> the biggest complication really is being able to build out the infrastructure for 30,000 in the summer. the water, the sewer, all the needs that people have; the transportation. >> suarez: the money to maintain public services comes from building permits and motel taxes and both are down. lincoln city is one of patchwork nation's "service worker centers." during the early part of this decade, when people had money to burn on vacation homes and the like, the place was thriving. but. when the national economy took a nose dive last year, people here felt the effects almost immediately. kip ward owns a bed and breakfast. >> you

. >> brown: tomorrow night, ray wraps up the "patchwork nation" series with a report from lincoln cityregon. >> lehrer: again, the major developments of the day: president obama accepted the nobel peace prize, in oslo, norway. he defended the concept of just war but urged the world to strive for peace. and the winter storm that's plagued the u.s. this week left much of the midwest and northeast in a deep freeze. the newshour continues now online. for what's there this evening on our new website back to hari sreenivasan in our newsroom. hari. >> sreenivasan: on our web site tonight you can watch all of president obama's speech in oslo. and on our education page, newshour extra, there's an interview with this year's winner of the international children's peace prize. on paul solman's making sense page a web exclusive video on retirement. is it good or bad for your health? and on jeff's art beat blog, the first in a series about the future of reading it's on writing short stories for twitter and other new media formats. speaking of new media, you can now follow us on twitter. friend us on

more localized basis, i was also the mayor of lincoln and i date my time in public service back to the time when i was lancaster county commissioner and a city council member in lincoln. these are good, decent, honorable people who are always looking to try to figure out the right way of doing things and i stand here today to acknowledge that and to tell all nebraskans how proud i am to be here today. mr. president, i rise to share with my colleagues the reaction of nebraskans to the special deal that got cut for nebraska that came to light over the weekend as the manager's amendment was released and analyzed. less than 24 hours after the announcement of the special carveouts for nebraska, with virtually no warning, no preparation to speak of 2000 people gathered in omaha nebraska, nebraskans to win one voice cry. nebraskans are frustrated and angry that our beloved state has been thrust into the same pot with all the other special deals that got cut here. in fact, mr. president, they are outraged that a backroom deal for our state might have been what is this bill across the finish line. you see mr. president, i fundamentally believe that i

more localized basis i was also the mayor of lincoln and i did my time in public service back to the time when i was lancaster county commissioner and the city commissioner in lincoln. these are good, decent honorable people who are always looking to try to figure out the right way of doing things, and i stand here today to acknowledge that and to tell all nebraskans tup prague i am to be here today. but mr. president i rise today to serve with my colleagues the reactions of nebraskans to this special deal that got cut for nebraska that came to light over the weekend as the managers was released and analyzed. less than 24 hours after the announcement of the special carveouts for nebraska with virtually no warning, no preparation to speak of, 2,000 people gathered in the omaha, nebraska. nebraskans with one voice cried foul. nebraskans are frustrated and angry that our beloved state has been thrust into the same pot with all of the other special deals that got cut here. in fact mr. president they are outraged that it backroom deal for our state might have been what puts this bill across the finish line. you see mr. president i fundamentally b

lincoln used to be a city that had -- we probably had a dozen factory jobs. i think we have only four now. my son works at a factory, who has just gone through a lay off process. they are now calling a few back but i know how long it is going to be. we just lost so many manufacturing jobs. host: what kind of manufacturing companies are there? what did they make? caller: we have a box factory. let me think -- we lost that one. hammer -- i think it is called something else now. we have a bottle factory. we have, where my son works, they make yard card set, which yet -- they had just got them. those are few and far between. host: we will move onto luis in baltimore who thinks we need to pay down the debt. -- louise. caller: i think we should be paying down the debt, just as we all have to look at paying down the debt i think the government must do the same. the unemployment situation is dire. i see this as two different things. i don't think the tarp money should be used to pay short-term jobs. but long term we need to look at paying down the debt and not just k

lincoln washington, d.c. i beg to present you as a christmas gift the city of savannah. and as i said i hadn't expected to write this book. i was working on the soldier vote and so i was at a book signing for one of the books you see up there on the battle -- eleven days in december and one fellow came to the signing and said have you thought about writing the civil war? and by selling working on the civil war right now and explain why was doing. he said no i mean writing about the civil war and christmas. what do you mean? and he said lincoln as a telegram from sherman saying you have savanna for christmas. well, i took my research and turned it around, and i hope to have a book signing i'm going to in about ten days this fellow whose name i don't know will turn up and i can thank him for the idea for the book. maybe some of you have ideas for another one that at this point i am not planning on another book out in military christmas. i'm not succeeded with military christmases but there is so much of this subject perhaps readers can assimilate and i have other things i

this city, this great city of washington, a few hours from now, you'll be able to see out those windows on the west side of this capitol and see past the great monuments of lincoln and washington and be able to see the potomac river and see the skyline break to the great lawn of arlington. within that consecrated ground in neat rows that rise and fall with the rolling hills lie the remains of men and women, boyce and girls, who fought and fell for our flag. their headstones are simple, and from a distance, they're identical. no matter how closely you look at the words and symbols etched in those solemn marble gravestones, you'll never be able to discern whether that warrior beneath was a democrat, independent, or republican. we cannot tell for whom he voted in the last election of his life, or what she thought of this policy or that policy. that's not by accident. that's not an oversight. while the demarcations of left and right, of red and blue seem so important to the daily lives as air and water to some of us, those stones are eternal reminders of such triviality, dedication to this nation above all else, all for our country, which is nevada's motto, should g