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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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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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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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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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‘Jabless’ Idea Not Among States’ Best Practices

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 09/24/2025 - 12:00am

To: The Nebraska Legislature

From: A constituent

Re: Don’t be like Florida

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Shuttered Dana College Campus Revived As Space For Young Adults Aging Out Of Foster Care

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 09/24/2025 - 12:00am

Chris Tonniges (left) CEO of Lutheran Family Services, and Stephanie Gardeman, director of the Root and Rise Program, walk into Mickelsen Hall on the former Dana College campus Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, in Blair, Neb.
(Rebecca S. Gratz / Nebraska Examiner)

BLAIR, Neb. — Tucked away on a hillside in Blair, the Dana College campus sat vacant for the better part of 15 years. But in recent years the property has gained new life through the work of a local nonprofit.