Profiles
She emigrated from Russia to Minnesota, fresh after graduating college, with scant money to her name – to no doubt achieve the American dream.
At that point, a law career wasn’t even visible on the...
Former Husker football coach Tom Osborne (center), speaks at a February 2023 event with Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (just behind Osborne), at which Pillen designated the month as “Nebraska Mentoring Month.” (Courtesy of Nebraska Governor’s Office)
LINCOLN — The full Nebraska Legislature is set to weigh whether to make an exception in state law to add former Husker football coach and former U.S. Rep. Tom Osborne to the Nebraska Hall of Fame as...
Though my email address is at the bottom of each of the articles that I have written, the only people to ever send me replies are restaurants looking to get reviewed by me, while strangely I have yet...
In the way that a needle rips your senses from their lazy slumber, the first below-zero day of the winter brought with it a piercing chill. It had been put off for too long, pushed back by a warm...
Attorneys preparing to appear before Judge Richard McGowan may want to plan for a late morning docket, as Douglas County's newest judge isn't known as a morning person.
McGowan was sworn in as judge...
Today’s News
George Achola, a representative of the team working on the northeast Omaha business park development, explains during a January community meeting that a possible use for part of a 67-acre area near 16th and Locust Streets includes a youth sports facility. That is one of two sites the team decided to purchase for the business park initiative. (Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)
OMAHA — After years of talk, concepts and controversy, creation of a northeast Omaha industrial business park reached a major milestone.
Revealed Thursday: The team that in early 2024 was awarded a $...
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LINCOLN — The Nebraska Legislature is trying to clean up a new law meant to be tough on foreign adversaries.
State Sen. Eliot Bostar of Lincoln, who authored the Foreign Adversary and Terrorist Agent...
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When Unpaid Cooking, Cleaning And Child Care Get A Dollar Value, Income Inequality In The US Shrinks
When economists track inequality, they typically focus on income and spending.
But a significant share of the services that families actually consume – meals cooked at home, child care, housecleaning...
A series of Foxconn or Hon Hai electric vehicles (EV) on display inside the company's complex in Taipei, Taiwan, on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo / Daniel Ceng)
ATLANTA (AP) — Battery company SK Battery America Inc. laid off nearly 1,000 workers at a manufacturing plant northeast of Atlanta on Friday amid automakers' changing electrification plans and...
State Sen. Myron Dorn of Adams (center), speaks with State Sens. John Fredrickson of Omaha (left), and Bruce Bostelman of Brainard, July 30, 2024. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
LINCOLN — State budget tensions boiled over onto the floor of the Nebraska Legislature Thursday in the aftermath of lawmakers’ rejecting a $50 million proposal to increase the state’s cigarette tax....
This Week's News
George Achola, a representative of the team working on the northeast Omaha business park development, explains during a January community meeting that a possible use for part of a 67-acre area near 16th and Locust Streets includes a youth sports facility. That is one of two sites the team decided to purchase for the business park initiative. (Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)
03/10/2026 - 12:00am
OMAHA — After years of talk, concepts and controversy, creation of a northeast Omaha industrial business park reached a major milestone.
Revealed Thursday: The team that in early 2024 was awarded a $90 million state grant to develop shovel-ready...
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03/10/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — The Nebraska Legislature is trying to clean up a new law meant to be tough on foreign adversaries.
State Sen. Eliot Bostar of Lincoln, who authored the Foreign Adversary and Terrorist Agent Registration Act that passed in 2025 with Gov....
(Drazen Zigic / Shutterstock)
When Unpaid Cooking, Cleaning And Child Care Get A Dollar Value, Income Inequality In The US Shrinks
03/10/2026 - 12:00am
When economists track inequality, they typically focus on income and spending.
But a significant share of the services that families actually consume – meals cooked at home, child care, housecleaning and lawn mowing – is produced by unpaid labor...
A series of Foxconn or Hon Hai electric vehicles (EV) on display inside the company's complex in Taipei, Taiwan, on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo / Daniel Ceng)
03/09/2026 - 3:35pm
ATLANTA (AP) — Battery company SK Battery America Inc. laid off nearly 1,000 workers at a manufacturing plant northeast of Atlanta on Friday amid automakers' changing electrification plans and uncertain consumer demand for EVs.
The company said...
State Sen. Myron Dorn of Adams (center), speaks with State Sens. John Fredrickson of Omaha (left), and Bruce Bostelman of Brainard, July 30, 2024. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
03/09/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — State budget tensions boiled over onto the floor of the Nebraska Legislature Thursday in the aftermath of lawmakers’ rejecting a $50 million proposal to increase the state’s cigarette tax.
Lawmakers appear to be in a standoff over options...
Pflugerville police officers stand outside a Walmart near the Pflugerville Justice Center in Pflugerville, Texas, Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, as law enforcement responds to a student protest of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (Jay Janner / Austin American-Statesman via AP)
03/09/2026 - 12:00am
Several Democratic states are moving to bar federal immigration agents from being near polling places and other election sites, amid persistent worries that President Donald Trump will use federal law enforcement or the military to disrupt the...
Pflugerville police officers stand outside a Walmart near the Pflugerville Justice Center in Pflugerville, Texas, Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, as law enforcement responds to a student protest of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (Jay Janner / Austin American-Statesman via AP)
03/09/2026 - 12:00am
Several Democratic states are moving to bar federal immigration agents from being near polling places and other election sites, amid persistent worries that President Donald Trump will use federal law enforcement or the military to disrupt the...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appears for an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, March 3, 2026. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo, File)
03/09/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump Thursday said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will be leaving the post for a job as a special envoy, following an appearance before a U.S. Senate panel this week that provoked bipartisan criticism of her...
Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks beside Vice President JD Vance during a news conference on efforts to combat fraud, in the Old Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, in Washington. (Tom Brenner / AP Photo)
03/09/2026 - 12:00am
State Medicaid budgets will be reduced by a total of $665 billion over the next decade, after President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act cuts federal investment in the health insurance program, according to a new analysis.
Researchers from...
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03/06/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers is suing online gaming platform Roblox to hold it “accountable for misleading Nebraska parents and children about the dangers” of the platform and steps the company took “to address those dangers.”...
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03/06/2026 - 12:00am
The Oregon Supreme Court on Feb. 5, 2026, issued a ruling that will have a wide impact. More than 1,400 criminal cases had to be dismissed, the justices ruled, due to lack of adequate counsel available for defendants.
Like other states, Oregon must...
A debate is set to unfold at Tuesday’s Omaha City Council meeting over a pricey wastewater treatment expansion project. The body meets at the City-County Building in downtown Omaha. (Cate Folsom / Nebraska Examiner)
03/04/2026 - 12:00am
OMAHA — One of Nebraska’s best-known construction companies has challenged the City of Omaha’s handling of one of the priciest city infrastructure investments ever.
Hawkins Construction Company, whose local roots harken back to the 1920s and...
State Sens. Rob Clements of Elmwood, Paul Strommen of Sidney and Myron Dorn of Sidney (from left), Feb. 2, 2026. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
03/04/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — After new economic forecasts grew Nebraska’s projected budget deficit by roughly $175 million, lawmakers turned to the state’s rainy day fund to help fill the gap.
The Legislature’s Appropriations Committee voted 8-0 Friday to recommend...
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03/04/2026 - 12:00am
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
Scientists are philosophers, explorers, data collectors and number crunchers. They are also storytellers, placing data within a broader scientific and societal context. How they tell these...
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03/04/2026 - 12:00am
The UNC System Board of Governors wasted little time on Thursday in approving a definition for academic freedom that has been a year in the making. The policy protects the rights of all faculty to engage in teaching, research and scholarly inquiry...
A "For Rent" sign is displayed outside an apartment building, in Wheeling, Ill., Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Nam Y. Huh / AP Photo)
03/04/2026 - 12:00am
As the Trump administration continues to focus on the legal immigration statuses of many across the country, a revived proposal by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development could impact many families’ ability to receive rental assistance...
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03/04/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — American colleges and universities received gifts and contracts worth more than $5.2 billion from foreign entities in 2025, according to the U.S. Department of Education, which also recently published summaries of foreign investment in...
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03/04/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — The Nebraska Legislature, at the urging of Gov. Jim Pillen, passed a bill Friday to allow schools to once again suspend students in grades pre-K-2 for engaging in violent behavior capable of causing physical harm.
Legislative Bill 653,...
