Profiles
After being appointed to the New York City Art Commission, she was invited to the annual dinner at a men’s club in New York. The invitation said “Black Tie,” so she wore a black evening gown with a...
Gavin Newsom on July 12, 2024. (Juliana Yamada / AP Photo, Pool)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he has President Joe Biden's back. It's almost enough for me to take him off my list of possible successors to the incumbent president. Having Biden's back is not a...
From left: my husband Greg DeWall, children Leo and Josephine DeWall, and myself with former Nebraska Governor and current U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts on the day he signed into law a Nebraska bill protecting the rights of disabled parents in 2018. ( Stacy Cervenka courtesy photo)
With Mother’s Day recently passed and Father’s Day just around the corner, families across the United States are celebrating the dedication, love, and sacrifice that parents show their children and...
BlueBarn Theatre debuted ““More of a Heart”” on March 28, 2024. The play was written by Dave Osmundsen. The play explores family dynamics and what it means to truly communicate. Zachary is a college...
To understand the somewhat divisive and misunderstood concept of gerrymandering that has real consequences in parts of the United States, it helps to begin with the concept from the decisively...
Today’s News
On an afternoon this spring, the five employees of the Douglas County Historical Society posed with imitation movie props in front of a gold backdrop. They made funny faces for the playful photo...
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Presidential elections of yore were not like this one. Would the media kindly get that into their collective skull? Many journalists seem to think that the reluctance of Kamala Harris to sit down for...
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These Household Brands Want to Redefine What Counts as “Recyclable”
by Lisa Song
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A classic summertime scene unfolded at a nonprofit's newest site. The girls' team was winning a lively indoor kickball game among young campers. Air conditioning blared. The hit...
WAKEFIELD – It’s lunch, and Rosa Brambila rings up an order of enchiladas and rice for a man from Guatemala, here in Nebraska to work. She pours a beer for a woman from Nicaragua, then brings out a...
This Week's News
09/11/2024 - 7:00am
On an afternoon this spring, the five employees of the Douglas County Historical Society posed with imitation movie props in front of a gold backdrop. They made funny faces for the playful photo meant to promote an upcoming exhibit on 20th century...
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09/11/2024 - 6:00am
Presidential elections of yore were not like this one. Would the media kindly get that into their collective skull? Many journalists seem to think that the reluctance of Kamala Harris to sit down for searing in-depth interviews on "the issues" is a...
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09/11/2024 - 5:00am
These Household Brands Want to Redefine What Counts as “Recyclable”
by Lisa Song
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Series: Selling a...
09/11/2024 - 4:00am
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A classic summertime scene unfolded at a nonprofit's newest site. The girls' team was winning a lively indoor kickball game among young campers. Air conditioning blared. The hit song “Dance Monkey” played throughout the old school...
09/10/2024 - 7:00am
WAKEFIELD – It’s lunch, and Rosa Brambila rings up an order of enchiladas and rice for a man from Guatemala, here in Nebraska to work. She pours a beer for a woman from Nicaragua, then brings out a burrito for the town’s only newspaper reporter.
On...
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09/10/2024 - 6:00am
The stakes could not be higher. Tens of millions of people will be watching, hopefully including those who (like me with baseball) tune in just in time for the World Series. Kamala Harris has to do two things: fill in the blanks in her own platform...
09/10/2024 - 5:00am
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has made moves to reclassify marijuana, making it a type of legal but regulated medicine, like Tylenol with codeine or some steroids.
With the reclassification, 26 states where cannabis is currently illegal...
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack speaks during an event at Greene Square Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. (Nick Rohlman / The Gazette via AP)
09/10/2024 - 4:00am
The federal government announced $7.3 billion in investments Thursday for 16 rural electric cooperatives around the country, including one in Nebraska, that seek to expand clean energy.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a news release the...
Feb. 20, 2012, a young man steps out of a skid steer while working on farm. (David Proeber / The Pantagraph / AP Photo)
09/10/2024 - 3:00am
DOJ Reaches Agreement With Wisconsin Sheriff’s Office to Improve Services for People Who Don’t Speak English
by Melissa Sanchez and Maryam Jameel
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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris talks to the media before boarding Air Force Two at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Romulus, Mich. (Julia Nikhinson / AP Photo)
09/09/2024 - 7:00am
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris defended her values and vowed, if elected, to appoint a Republican to her cabinet in her first major sit-down interview since her presidential campaign began just over a month ago.
Harris, who rose to the...
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris talks to the media before boarding Air Force Two at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Romulus, Mich. (Julia Nikhinson / AP Photo)
09/09/2024 - 7:00am
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris defended her values and vowed, if elected, to appoint a Republican to her cabinet in her first major sit-down interview since her presidential campaign began just over a month ago.
Harris, who rose to the...
President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sally Kornbluth. (Charles Krupa / AP Photo)
09/09/2024 - 6:00am
"Welcome to MIT!" the flyers being handed out to incoming students announce, next to a drawing of Tim the Beaver, MIT's mascot. The flyers go on to comment on the conflict in the Middle East and the State of Israel in particular, and they list more...
09/09/2024 - 5:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska voters appear likely to vote on whether to legalize and regulate medical marijuana, as well as decide the fate of a new “school choice” law in November’s election, barring last-minute legal challenges.
Secretary of State Bob Evnen...
President Joe Biden speaks to striking United Auto Workers on the picket line outside the Willow Run Redistribution Center, UAW Local 174, Sept. 26, 2023, in Van Buren Township, Mich. (Evan Vucci / AP Photo)
09/09/2024 - 4:00am
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump are in a tight race for the White House. Every voting bloc will count – including members of labor unions and other people in their households.
The majority of union...
09/09/2024 - 3:00am
OMAHA — State Sen. Tony Vargas, the Democrat running for the U.S. House in Nebraska’s 2nd District, said voters should consider why his Republican opponent, U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, did “a special favor” on a work visa for an international executive...
09/09/2024 - 2:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will debate for the first — and perhaps, last — time on Tuesday night as the presidential candidates fight to sway voters on the biggest stage in U.S. politics.
The meeting comes just 75 days after...
09/06/2024 - 7:00am
WEST POINT, Nebraska — Gov. Jim Pillen and the Nebraska Department of Agriculture announced new regulations Thursday against “lab-grown meat” or “fake meat,” with Pillen eyeing 2025 legislation to prohibit the sale of such products within the state...
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09/06/2024 - 6:00am
Ironic, isn’t it, that a system that provides so many advantages for its citizens also provides the means of its own demise.
Unlike nearly every other system of government that came before it, U.S. democracy offered its citizens individual freedom,...
09/06/2024 - 5:00am
DENVER (AP) — A man sitting in his van after fixing a coffee machine inside a supermarket in the college town of Boulder was the first person killed. In just over a minute, nine more people died in a barrage of gunfire inside and outside the store...
A Nebraska law that combined abortion restrictions with another measure to limit gender-affirming health care for minors does not violate a state constitutional amendment requiring bills to stick to a single subject, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday, July 26, 2024. (Kenneth Ferriera / Lincoln Journal Star via AP)
09/06/2024 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — Two was company and three is now a crowd of last-minute lawsuits filed in Nebraska against competing abortion amendment proposals.
More than 20 doctors supporting an abortion-rights amendment sued Friday to press the Nebraska Supreme Court...
The U.S. Supreme Court is seen Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (Jose Luis Magana / AP Photo)
09/06/2024 - 3:00am
Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election not only failed, but some of them also rested on a misreading of the U.S. Constitution, as our new analysis argues. The relevant constitutional provision dates back to...
09/06/2024 - 1:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A decision on whether to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in the U.S. won't come until after the November presidential election, a timeline that raises the chances it could be a potent political issue in the closely...
At 16th and Emmet Streets in Omaha, supporters of housing plan by Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris’ housing plan gather for a news conference. From (left) are Precious McKesson, executive director of the Nebraska Democratic Party; State Sen. Terrell McKinney of Omaha; Don Curry, housing developer and entrepreneur; and Kimara Snipes, community organizer. (Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)
09/05/2024 - 7:00am
OMAHA — A shortage of safe and affordable housing pushed Kimara Snipes to make what she said was one of her toughest decisions.
At the time, she was on the Omaha Public Schools Board and needed to get out of the South Omaha rental home that was “...
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09/05/2024 - 6:00am
To Be the Leaders of Tomorrow, Students Need to Learn Essential Skills — Today
Meuers: Service learning gives young people the chance to address real community issues and make needed change with curiosity, creativity and empathy.
By Amy Meuers
This...
09/05/2024 - 5:00am
Modern buildings tend to take electricity and air conditioning for granted. They often have glass facades and windows that can’t be opened. And when the power goes out for days in the middle of a heat wave, as the Houston area experienced in July...
09/05/2024 - 3:00am
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Sharon Ellison and Fred Jernigan spent four days hiking and camping from one end of the Grand Canyon to the other, with plans to relax at a hotel within the park on Thursday. But when they reemerged from the...
North Dakota Geologic Survey Paleontologist Jeff Person sits behind a 7-foot mammoth tusk on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, at the Geologic Survey office in Bismarck, N.D. Coal miners unearthed the tusk in May 2023 at the Freedom Mine near Beulah, North Dakota. Paleontologists subsequently discovered other mammoth bones at the site. The tusk and other bones are wrapped in plastic for their protection as the paleontologists work to preserve them. (Jack Dura / AP Photo)
09/05/2024 - 2:00am
Some mammoth bones have been gnawing at North Dakota State Geologist Ed Murphy for more than 35 years.
Murphy recently described for the North Dakota Industrial Commission how he became aware of a find of mammoth bones in 1988. He updated the...
