LINCOLN — Gov. Jim Pillen on Tuesday announced his appointment of Drew Gonshorowski as director of Medicaid and Long-Term Care for the Department of Health and Human Services, drawing immediate concern from at least one state lawmaker.

LINCOLN — John Albin remembers back in 1990, when Nebraskans still filled out paper unemployment claims, and his new colleagues at the State Department of Labor entered the data into a mainframe computer.

Today those services are all online. The department that Albin rose within has modernized in myriad other ways and, more recently, pushed through a pandemic that stressed labor departments nationwide.