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Hearing On Mandatory E-Verify For Nebraska Businesses Draws Mixed Responses

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/11/2025 - 5:00am

Susan Gumm testifies in support of a measure by State Sen. Kathleen Kauth to mandate the use of E-Verify for businesses with more than 25 employees.
(Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — Testifiers on Monday were about split for and against a measure that would require some 6,350 Nebraska employers to use an online verifying system to weed out undocumented workers — or face suspension of their business license.

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Labor Groups Ring Alarms Over Proposed Changes To Nebraska Minimum Wage, Paid Sick Leave Laws

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/11/2025 - 4:00am

LINCOLN — Labor activists stood in the Capitol Rotunda during Thursday morning’s agenda and criticized a pair of legislative bills seeking to weaken voter-approved minimum wage and paid sick leave laws, which keep marching on in the Nebraska statehouse.

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Walgreens Agrees To Be Acquired By Private Equity Firm For Almost $10 Billion

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/11/2025 - 3:00am

NEW YORK (AP) — Walgreens Boots Alliance says it has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Sycamore Partners as the struggling retailer looks to turn itself around after years of losing money.

Walgreens said Thursday that Sycamore will pay $11.45 per share, giving the deal an equity value just under $10 billion. Shareholders could eventually receive up to another $3 per share under certain conditions.

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Toys Are Expected To Cost More By Fall Due To New US Tariffs On Chinese Imports

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/11/2025 - 2:00am

NEW YORK (AP) — As toy inventors, toy manufacturers and buyers for stores that sell toys met for a four-day annual trade show in New York last weekend, a topic besides which items were destined for holiday wish lists permeated the displays.

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Steak Town USA: Committee Chophouse Straddles Past, Future — And Mouth-Watering Present

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/04/2025 - 7:00am

A bone in ribeye and a loaded baked potato are standards of the dinner menu at the Committee Chophouse.
(Ryan Soderlin / Flatwater Free Press)

A Committee Chophouse chef can pinpoint the first moment when he sensed the restaurant he works for was an honest-to-goodness steakhouse.

It was the day that a few Nebraska ranchers arrived with their families, unannounced, for dinner. Then the ranchers’ friends started showing up, too, to this landmark spot inside the historic Cottonwood hotel.

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Breaking Out The Notebook Is Healthy Exercise

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/04/2025 - 6:00am

A thought experiment for your Nebraska sensibilities: Imagine you’re a reporter at a news conference held by Nebraska political leaders including our Congressional delegation in Washington, our 49 state senators and the governor — everyone we have elected to make decisions for us in this democratically infused type of government.

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How Trump’s Tech Agenda Could Impact Hiring This Year

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/04/2025 - 5:00am

With executive actions repealing federal guardrails on artificial intelligence, President Donald Trump’s first few weeks in office have marked a major shift from the Biden administration’s attitude toward the tech industry.

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$1.3M In Lincoln Pandemic Funding Interest Will Support Training For Skilled Workers

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/04/2025 - 4:00am

The City of Lincoln and a coalition on Thursday announced that $1.3 million in interest from the city’s share of federal pandemic funds will help provide scholarships and other support for Lincoln residents seeking to train for various skilled worker positions. Shown here is an apprentice at Lincoln’s Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Center.
(Courtesy of City of Lincoln)

LINCOLN — The City of Lincoln will direct $1.3 million in interest from federal pandemic funds to a workforce initiative that provides scholarships for budding electrical, auto service and HVAC techs.

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How Nutriset, A French Company, Has Helped Alleviate Hunger And Create Jobs In Some Of The World’s Poorest Places

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/04/2025 - 3:00am

An Iraqi girl holds a packet of humanitarian food aid given by U.S. Army medics from the 26 Forward Support Battalion in the countryside outside Fallujah, Iraq Wednesday, July 9, 2003.
(John Moore / AP Photo)

About 19 million children under 5 around the world suffer from severe acute malnutrition every year. This life-threatening condition kills 400,000 of them – that’s one child every 10 seconds.

These numbers are staggering, especially because a lifesaving treatment has existed for nearly three decades: “ready-to-use therapeutic food.”

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Making HS Grads Pass Citizenship Test Is Fine. But Civics Ed Must Start Earlier

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 02/25/2025 - 6:00am

Making HS Grads Pass Citizenship Test Is Fine. But Civics Ed Must Start Earlier

Pondiscio: If 17-year-olds are cramming basic facts as a last-minute requirement to graduate, we’ve already missed the boat.

By Robert Pondiscio

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Hearing On Mandatory E-Verify For Nebraska Businesses Draws Mixed Responses

Labor Groups Ring Alarms Over Proposed Changes To Nebraska Minimum Wage, Paid Sick Leave Laws

Walgreens Agrees To Be Acquired By Private Equity Firm For Almost $10 Billion

Toys Are Expected To Cost More By Fall Due To New US Tariffs On Chinese Imports

Steak Town USA: Committee Chophouse Straddles Past, Future — And Mouth-Watering Present

Breaking Out The Notebook Is Healthy Exercise

How Trump’s Tech Agenda Could Impact Hiring This Year

$1.3M In Lincoln Pandemic Funding Interest Will Support Training For Skilled Workers

How Nutriset, A French Company, Has Helped Alleviate Hunger And Create Jobs In Some Of The World’s Poorest Places

Making HS Grads Pass Citizenship Test Is Fine. But Civics Ed Must Start Earlier

Making HS Grads Pass Citizenship Test Is Fine. But Civics Ed Must Start Earlier

Pondiscio: If 17-year-olds are cramming basic facts as a last-minute requirement to graduate, we’ve already missed the boat.

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