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Bakery That Makes Sara Lee And Entenmann's Pushes Back On FDA Sesame Warning

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/15/2024 - 3:00am

A top U.S. commercial bakery is pushing back on a Food and Drug Administration warning to stop using labels that say its products contain sesame — a potentially dangerous allergen — when they don't.

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Hustle. Lights On. One Word. Today.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 10/09/2024 - 11:43am

Capturing the fast pace vibe of entrepreneurs, co-founders of the first Hustle Conference, CurtDrew and Eric Gautschi, have held fast to this dream for more than a decade. Today, October 9,their first supporter Anthony Hendrickson PhD, dean of Creighton University’s Heider College of Business, is helping these hard driving and successful entrepreneurs premiere their vision.Hendrickson was the first person to jump on the bandwagon of Hustle.

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Nebraska AG Joins Continued Fight Against Massachusetts Animal Confinement Law

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/08/2024 - 7:00am

Twenty-two pork-production states are pushing for an appeal of a federal district court ruling that upheld a 2016 ballot measure in Massachusetts to prohibit the sale of pork, poultry and veal from livestock that were “confined in a cruel manner.”

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Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/08/2024 - 6:00am

Isn’t it funny how the political party that’s always talking about state’s rights tried to take away one of ours?

Kudos to the one Republican senator in the state who dared to stand up to the convicted felon running for President. Kudos to Mike McDonnell who wouldn’t be swayed by the political pressure put on him.

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Inside The Collapse Of Disney’s America, The US History-Themed Park That Almost Was

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/08/2024 - 5:00am

Bob Weis of the Walt Disney Company’s Imagineering Department, points to an artist rendering of the proposed Disney’s America theme park during a news conference in Manassas, Virginia, Nov. 11, 1993. The Disney company announced, it will build the theme park where visitors would relive great moments of history on a site in the rolling hills of the Civil War battlefield community.
(J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo)

As a top producer of children’s entertainment, Disney is no stranger to America’s culture wars.

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Data, Pilot Projects Showing Food Service Robots May Not Threaten Jobs

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/08/2024 - 4:00am

Though food service workers and economists have long worried about the impact technology would have on the restaurant labor force, pilot programs in several fast-casual restaurants over the last few years have shown it may not have the negative impact they feared, a labor economist says.

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Dockworkers' Union Suspends Strike Until Jan. 15 To Allow Time To Negotiate New Contract

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/08/2024 - 3:00am

Longshoremen walk the picket line at the Barbours Cut Container Terminal during the first day of a dockworkers strike on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, in Houston.
(Annie Mulligan / AP Photo)

DETROIT (AP) — Some 45,000 dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports are returning to work after their union reached a deal to suspend a strike that could have caused shortages and higher prices if it had dragged on.

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Taxpayers In 24 States Will Be Able To File Their Returns Directly With The IRS In 2025

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/08/2024 - 2:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS is expanding its program that allows people to file their taxes directly with the agency for free.

The federal tax collector’s Direct File program, which allows taxpayers to calculate and submit their returns to the government directly without using commercial tax preparation software, will be open to more than 30 million people in 24 states in the 2025 filing season.

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More Than 200 Businesses Back Nebraska Paid Sick Leave Ballot Measure

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/01/2024 - 7:00am

Craig Moody, a sponsor of the ballot measure for paid sick leave and co-founder of Verdis Group, a sustainability consulting firm in Omaha, speaks during a news conference for Paid Sick Leave for Nebraskans.
(Aaron Sanderford / Nebraska Examiner)

OMAHA — Organizers of a November ballot measure that would require Nebraska businesses to provide employees with a minimum level of paid sick leave announced Wednesday that they had secured the public backing of more than 200 businesses.

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To Live And Let Live

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/01/2024 - 6:00am

Recently I attended my 50th high school reunion. (Yes, I know, I’m old.) I attended two of my high schools reunions. One here in Omaha in person and one in Columbus Ohio virtually via Facebook