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Death Of The Dial Tone: Nebraska’s Dwindling Pay Phones Draw Lots Of Curiosity, Few Calls

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 10/15/2025 - 12:00am
The pay phone outside the Pierce Telephone Co. in Pierce wasn’t working when someone tried to use it, so Jeff Kesting, the phone company’s plant manager, fixed the problem so the phone would work again. 
(Darin Epperly / Flatwater Free Press)

Lane Handke called his wife, Cathleen, the other day to tell her he was bringing home the shelves they needed to finish their cabinet. The call cost him 25 cents.

Then, the Pierce physician phoned a friend in Omaha just to say hello. This call cost him an additional eight quarters.

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Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado Wins The Nobel Peace Prize

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 10/15/2025 - 12:00am
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado holds up tally sheets during a protest against the reelection of President Nicolás Maduro one month after the disputed presidential vote which she says the opposition won by a landslide, in Caracas, Venezuela, Aug. 28, 2024. 
(Ariana Cubillos / AP Photo)

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in the South American nation, winning recognition as a woman “who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.”

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He Lives Alongside Lions In Nairobi. The Human-Wildlife Collision Is Dazzling — And Dangerous

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 10/15/2025 - 12:00am
A lioness rests on top of a sign inside Nairobi National Park, where lions are known to roam, on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, on Jan. 10, 2019. 
(Laila Kazziha / AP Photo)

KAJIADO, Kenya (AP) — This year, less than a kilometer from where I live, a girl named Peace Mwende was killed by a lion. The news hit me hard: She was 14, the same age as my youngest daughter, and the lioness responsible may have been one of the animals we see in our neighborhood almost weekly.

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Bob Ross Paintings To Be Auctioned To Support Public TV Stations After Federal Funding Cuts

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 10/15/2025 - 12:00am

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for public television stations suffering from cuts in federal funding.

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Jane Goodall, The Gentle Disrupter Whose Research On Chimpanzees Redefined What It Meant To Be Human

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 10/08/2025 - 12:00am
Primatologist Jane Goodall kisses Pola, a 14-months-old chimpanzee baby from the Budapest Zoo, that she symbolically adopted in Budapest, Hungary, on Dec. 20, 2004. 
(Bela Szandelszky / AP Photo)

Anyone proposing to offer a master class on changing the world for the better, without becoming negative, cynical, angry or narrow-minded in the process, could model their advice on the life and work of pioneering animal behavior scholar Jane Goodall.

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Nebraska’s Cities Are Built For Cars. These Young Activists Want To Change That.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 10/08/2025 - 12:00am
Jack Cicin (left) and Jared Haynes build a wooden bench during a Strong Towns gathering in North Omaha on June 1. The group later placed the benches at bus stops that lacked seating. 
(Jeremy Turley / Flatwater Free Press)

With their target in sight, the guerrillas parked and climbed out of the pickup truck.

Moving decisively, the two men lowered the tailgate and hauled the critical cargo across the street, dropping it on a sidewalk in midtown Omaha.

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Nebraska Ranks Near Top Of U.S. In Prison Overcrowding, OIG Of Corrections Reports

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 10/08/2025 - 12:00am
State Sen. Carolyn Bosn of Lincoln.
(Courtesy of Unicameral Information Office)

LINCOLN — Nebraska has the country’s most or second most overcrowded prison system, depending on who you ask.

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Alzheimer's and America

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 10/01/2025 - 12:00am
Elderly and caregivers begin to fill up the seats at the Alzheimers Conference on September 17, 2025.
(Austin Petak / The Daily Record)

In an interview that I had done with Executive Director Trish Bergman at the Eastern Nebraska Office on Aging some months ago, she had forewarned then of the coming “Silver Tsunami,” which is the coming crisis of boomers getting older and moving into assisted care facilities, as well as going senile and losing support, friends, and partners as the ravages of time take them.

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Nebraska’s College Students Learning To Talk Again After Kirk’s Death

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 10/01/2025 - 12:00am
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen and University of Nebraska-Lincoln Turning Point USA president Ethnie Barnhouse talk before a Charlie Kirk vigil at UNL on Sept. 17, 2025.
 (Juan Salinas II / Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — Conservative and liberal students at Nebraska colleges say they want to turn down the temperature on the heated political dialogue dominating national conversations in the weeks since the killing of Charlie Kirk.

But they’ve got their work cut out.

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Trump Administration Taps Nebraska As One Of Five States For TANF Pilot Program

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 10/01/2025 - 12:00am
Shannon Grotrian, director of Nebraska’s Office of Economic Assistance 
(Courtesy of State of Nebraska)

LINCOLN — Nebraska is one of five states the Trump administration selected to participate in a pilot program aimed at improving the way the nation carries out the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which is nearing its 30th year.

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