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23andMe Is Potentially Selling More Than Just Genetic Data – The Personal Survey Info It Collected Is Just As Much A Privacy Problem

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 04/08/2025 - 4:00am

As soon as the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy on March 23, 2025, concerns about what would happen to the personal information contained in its massive genetic and health information database were swift and widespread. A few days after, a U.S. judge ruled that the company could sell its consumer data as part of the bankruptcy.

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New Program To Bring More Pediatric Nurses To Growing Children’s Nebraska Campus

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 04/01/2025 - 7:00am

OMAHA — As thrilled as they are about a $114 million pediatric mental health care facility rising in Omaha, local health care officials expect challenges, including assembling the necessary workforce during the current nursing shortage.

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Nebraska Child Care Advocates On Defense As Providers Struggle And Legislative Fixes Languish

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 04/01/2025 - 5:00am

Day care operator Shannon Hampson encourages 14-month-old Imani Swindell as she pilots a scooter on Monday, March 24, 2025, at Hampson's home-based business Wild Child Daycare in Lincoln.
(Eric Gregory / Flatwater Free Press)

As strong winds and heavy snow battered Lincoln, Shannon Hampson’s house was unusually quiet – absent the dozen kids who fill her in-home child care with laughter, cries and questions.

Between snow and sicknesses that week, Hampson said she’d be out $540. She’d have to rebudget: maybe she’d buy beans instead of chicken breasts, skip a field trip.

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Fend For Yourself: Under Trump, Consumer Protection Bureau’s Probes Of Big Tech And Finance Firms Freeze Up

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 04/01/2025 - 4:00am

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (right) walks with Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen (center) wife of Marc Andreessen (left) at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, Wednesday, July 11, 2012.
(Paul Sakuma / AP Photo)

Fend for Yourself: Under Trump, Consumer Protection Bureau’s Probes of Big Tech and Finance Firms Freeze Up

by Jake Pearson

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The SBH Review: At Buzzy New Omaha Bar And Grill, Come For Sports, Stay For Food

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/25/2025 - 7:00am

Dishes from the Omaha location of 30Hop include, from top left: an Ahi poke bowl, shrimp tacos, Buffalo wings, nachos and chicken strips.
(Courtesy photo)

30hop, which opened its first Omaha location two months ago, is all about the beer.

That’s in fact where it gets its name: The upscale bar and grill’s first location, in Coralville, Iowa, had 30 beers on tap.

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Not Asking For A Perfect World – Just A Livable One

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/25/2025 - 6:00am

Pure water. Clean air. Healthy soil. A livable environment.

These things should be guaranteed as integral to the well-being of our beautiful state, as a well-functioning government or the Earth spinning on its axis.

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Debate Over H-1B Visas Shines Spotlight On US Tech Worker Shortages

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/25/2025 - 5:00am

A heated debate has recently erupted between two groups of supporters of President Donald Trump. The dispute concerns the H-1B visa system, the program that allows U.S. employers to hire skilled foreign workers in specialty occupations – mostly in the tech industry.

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Violent Attacks On Tesla Dealerships Spike As Musk Takes Prominent Role In Trump White House

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/25/2025 - 4:00am

A member of the Seattle Fire Department inspects a burned Tesla Cybertruck at a Tesla lot in Seattle, Monday, March 10, 2025.
(Lindsey Wasson / AP Photo)

SEATTLE (AP) — Cybertrucks set ablaze. Bullets and Molotov cocktails aimed at Tesla showrooms.

Attacks on property carrying the logo of Elon Musk's electric-car company are cropping up across the U.S. and overseas. While no injuries have been reported, Tesla showrooms, vehicle lots, charging stations and privately owned cars have been targeted.

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USPS Agrees To Work With DOGE On Reform, Planning To Cut 10,000 Workers

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/18/2025 - 5:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — Postmaster General Louis DeJoy plans to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the U.S. Postal Service budget and he’ll do that working with Elon Musk ’s Department of Government Efficiency, according to a letter sent to members of Congress on Thursday.

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What a Wrongful Death Lawsuit Reveals About America’s Largest Oxygen Provider

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/18/2025 - 4:00am

What a Wrongful Death Lawsuit Reveals About America’s Largest Oxygen Provider

by Peter Elkind

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23andMe Is Potentially Selling More Than Just Genetic Data – The Personal Survey Info It Collected Is Just As Much A Privacy Problem

New Program To Bring More Pediatric Nurses To Growing Children’s Nebraska Campus

Nebraska Child Care Advocates On Defense As Providers Struggle And Legislative Fixes Languish

Fend For Yourself: Under Trump, Consumer Protection Bureau’s Probes Of Big Tech And Finance Firms Freeze Up

Fend for Yourself: Under Trump, Consumer Protection Bureau’s Probes of Big Tech and Finance Firms Freeze Up

The SBH Review: At Buzzy New Omaha Bar And Grill, Come For Sports, Stay For Food

Not Asking For A Perfect World – Just A Livable One

Debate Over H-1B Visas Shines Spotlight On US Tech Worker Shortages

Violent Attacks On Tesla Dealerships Spike As Musk Takes Prominent Role In Trump White House

USPS Agrees To Work With DOGE On Reform, Planning To Cut 10,000 Workers

What a Wrongful Death Lawsuit Reveals About America’s Largest Oxygen Provider

What a Wrongful Death Lawsuit Reveals About America’s Largest Oxygen Provider

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