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Microchip Companies Need Federal Grant Money. They’re Rolling Out Child Care To Get It.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/10/2024 - 2:00am

Preschoolers eat lunch at a day care center in Mountlake Terrace, Wash. Child care centers once operated under the promise that it would always be there when parents have to work. Now, each teacher resignation, coronavirus exposure, and day care center closure reveals an industry on the brink, with wide-reaching implications for an entire economy's workforce.
(Elaine Thompson / AP Photo)

Originally published by The 19th

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Baby Cousin With Cancer Inspires Girls To Sew Hospital Gowns For Sick Kids Across U.S. And Africa

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/03/2024 - 8:00am

Giuliana Demma (left) and her sister Audrina sew pediatric hospital gowns in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. The sisters have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017.
(Wayne Parry / AP Photo)

FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) — Fighting brain cancer, little Giada Demma was lying in her pediatric hospital bed, her tiny body virtually swimming in a drab green hospital gown.

Her cousin Giuliana Demma remembers looking at the 1-year-old and thinking how sad the scene was: a small child awash in an ugly gown several sizes too big for her.

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Knowing Both Stories Critical To Knowing History

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/03/2024 - 6:00am

Among my prized possessions was a Willie Mays home run ball, clubbed into a summer night where it stopped next to Walt Horn’s car. Horn made annual trips to watch Major League Baseball.

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NE Auditor Alleges Mishandling Of Public Funds By Nonprofit Helping To Manage Niobrara Scenic River

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/03/2024 - 5:00am

LINCOLN — Nebraska’s state auditor has questioned the handling of public funds by a small nonprofit that helps manage the Niobrara Scenic River corridor.

Among eyebrow-raising items described Wednesday by Auditor Mike Foley is nearly $40,000 in unused leave pay that went to a top executive who had a purported two-decade-long perfect attendance streak.

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NE Auditor Alleges Mishandling Of Public Funds By Nonprofit Helping To Manage Niobrara Scenic River

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/03/2024 - 5:00am

LINCOLN — Nebraska’s state auditor has questioned the handling of public funds by a small nonprofit that helps manage the Niobrara Scenic River corridor.

Among eyebrow-raising items described Wednesday by Auditor Mike Foley is nearly $40,000 in unused leave pay that went to a top executive who had a purported two-decade-long perfect attendance streak.

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Survivors Of Israel Music Festival Massacre Unite To Build A Healing Community

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/03/2024 - 4:00am

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — In the months since Hamas’ surprise attack sent them scattering across fields or hiding in desert brush, thousands of survivors of a massacre at a trance festival in Israel have come together as a community to heal.

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After 40 Years, Omaha’s Queer Choir Has A Story To Tell About The City’s History

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/03/2024 - 1:00am

Members of the River City Mixed Chorus in the background and artistic director Barron Breland in the foreground gesture to the audience during the “Love out Loud” concert in June 2019.
(Photo courtesy of the River City Mixed Chorus)

The voices ascended as the harmonies multiplied until they threatened to pull the song apart. Then something shifted. A few sang higher. Others descended. A chord and melody emerged.

With the sweep of his hand, the River City Mixed Chorus’s artistic director Barron Breland halted the cacophony.

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Midwest Flooding Collapses A Rail Bridge, Forces Evacuations And Kills At Least 1

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 06/26/2024 - 8:00am

A South Dakota Highway Patrol Officer keeps watch over a flooded bridge that was underwater after days of heavy rain led to flooding in the area, near Lake Alvin, S.D., Saturday, June 22, 2024.
(Josh Jurgens / AP Photo)

A railroad bridge collapsed during flooding in the Midwestern U.S. that has forced water rescues, led to evacuations, caused at least one death and brought additional misery during a vast and stubborn heat wave.

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Don’t Give Up On The FAFSA, Advocates For Student Financial Aid Urge

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 06/26/2024 - 6:00am

WASHINGTON — Though the new version of the form to apply for federal financial student aid has had its fair share of highly publicized hiccups, U.S. Under Secretary of Education James Kvaal says the department has made a lot of progress in the past couple of months.

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Retired UNK Chancellor Reflects On 42 Years Of Public Service As ‘Living Proof’ Of NU Mission

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 06/26/2024 - 5:00am

Retired University of Nebraska at Kearney Chancellor Doug Kristensen served as a state senator from Minden for 14 years, from 1989-2002. He was the longest serving speaker when he was appointed and left to lead UNK in 2002.
(Courtesy of UNK Communications)

KEARNEY — University of Nebraska at Kearney Chancellor Doug Kristensen retired May 31 after four decades of public service that he said represents “living proof” of NU’s mission.

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Non-Profit News

Microchip Companies Need Federal Grant Money. They’re Rolling Out Child Care To Get It.

Baby Cousin With Cancer Inspires Girls To Sew Hospital Gowns For Sick Kids Across U.S. And Africa

Knowing Both Stories Critical To Knowing History

NE Auditor Alleges Mishandling Of Public Funds By Nonprofit Helping To Manage Niobrara Scenic River

NE Auditor Alleges Mishandling Of Public Funds By Nonprofit Helping To Manage Niobrara Scenic River

Survivors Of Israel Music Festival Massacre Unite To Build A Healing Community

After 40 Years, Omaha’s Queer Choir Has A Story To Tell About The City’s History

Midwest Flooding Collapses A Rail Bridge, Forces Evacuations And Kills At Least 1

Don’t Give Up On The FAFSA, Advocates For Student Financial Aid Urge

Retired UNK Chancellor Reflects On 42 Years Of Public Service As ‘Living Proof’ Of NU Mission

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