Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 04/19/2024 - 12:07am
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers are set for the first time to pass a bill that would block the public from voting on a ballot measure initiated by citizens of the state, setting up what could be a long battle over whether to fund private school tuition with public dollars.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 04/19/2024 - 12:06am
There is no place like Nebraska. Well, Maine is like Nebraska. But just Nebraska and Maine are the only two places where the states divide the Electoral College votes.
We really dodged a bullet here. If the push had been made earlier in the Unicameral session to change the way we vote for President, we might have lost our unique way of distributing our electoral votes.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 04/19/2024 - 12:05am
LINCOLN — U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts is bankrolling a conservative ballot effort to ban abortions in the Nebraska constitution after the first trimester, or 13 weeks of pregnancy.
Ricketts, R-Neb., gave $500,000 to the effort. He was the only donor named in the first campaign finance report of the group Protect Women and Children filed with the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 04/19/2024 - 12:04am
LINCOLN — Nebraska’s broadcasters are mounting an 11th-hour advertising blitz in hopes of overturning a proposed new tax on “digital ads” by Gov. Jim Pillen to finance his property tax relief plan.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 04/19/2024 - 12:03am
Boeing was the subject of dual Senate hearings Wednesday as Congress examined allegations of major safety failures at the embattled aircraft manufacturer, which has been pushed into crisis mode since a door-plug panel blew off a 737 Max jetliner during an Alaska Airlines flight in January.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 04/19/2024 - 12:01am
As the Republican National Committee ramps up plans to monitor the polls for illegal voting this fall, the national party is increasingly working with a loose network of anti-fraud extremists who have been found to routinely spread election lies.
The extremists also have close ties to the prominent far-right conspiracy theorists who tried to overturn the 2020 results of the presidential election.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 04/15/2024 - 12:02am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands more firearms dealers across the United States will have to run background checks on buyers when selling at gun shows or other places outside brick-and-mortar stores, according to a Biden administration rule that will soon go into effect.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 04/12/2024 - 12:06am
WASHINGTON (AP) — For most of her life, Angela Crawford considered herself a fairly conservative Republican — and she voted that way. But then a wave of court rulings and Republican-led actions in states restricted abortion and later in vitro fertilization, the very procedure that had helped her conceive her daughter. It helped change her politics.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 04/12/2024 - 12:05am
Donald Trump has done it again. And again.
In a series of social media posts, the former president personally attacked the daughter of the judge presiding over his criminal trial in New York state.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 04/12/2024 - 12:04am
LINCOLN — Officials in public schools or other Nebraska political subdivisions could be held liable if they fail to protect children in their care through a proposal inching forward in the Legislature.