Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/04/2025 - 6:00am
A thought experiment for your Nebraska sensibilities: Imagine you’re a reporter at a news conference held by Nebraska political leaders including our Congressional delegation in Washington, our 49 state senators and the governor — everyone we have elected to make decisions for us in this democratically infused type of government.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/04/2025 - 5:00am
With executive actions repealing federal guardrails on artificial intelligence, President Donald Trump’s first few weeks in office have marked a major shift from the Biden administration’s attitude toward the tech industry.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/04/2025 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — The City of Lincoln will direct $1.3 million in interest from federal pandemic funds to a workforce initiative that provides scholarships for budding electrical, auto service and HVAC techs.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/04/2025 - 3:00am
About 19 million children under 5 around the world suffer from severe acute malnutrition every year. This life-threatening condition kills 400,000 of them – that’s one child every 10 seconds.
These numbers are staggering, especially because a lifesaving treatment has existed for nearly three decades: “ready-to-use therapeutic food.”
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 02/25/2025 - 5:00am
New York on Thursday sued some of the country’s biggest distributors of electronic cigarettes, accusing the companies of violating state laws that prohibit the sale of vaping flavors and designs that appeal to children.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 02/25/2025 - 5:00am
WASHINGTON — Hundreds rallied in support of former and current federal scientists and health workers Wednesday in Washington, D.C., as President Donald Trump’s administration slashes the workforce across federal agencies.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 02/25/2025 - 4:00am
On top of efforts to fire potentially tens of thousands of federal workers, an early executive order from President Donald Trump’s second term seeks to reclassify the employment status of as many as 50,000 other federal workers – out of more than 2 million total – to make them easier for the president to fire as well.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 02/25/2025 - 3:00am
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition games starting Thursday after four years of experiments in the minor leagues.
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is an advocate of the Automated Ball-Strike System, which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 02/18/2025 - 7:00am
In 2015, I got in a van with Dante chef and owner Nick Strawhecker and we drove out into Nebraska to see where a handful of his restaurant’s ingredients came from.