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NU AE Is What You’re Looking For

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 12/03/2025 - 12:00am

Do you remember “What you wanted to be when you grew up?” At some point in your mid-to-late high school journey, that question stops being so hypothetical, and you start to be subjected to a flurry of presentations, career counselors, campus visits, and aptitude tests. If you’re fortunate, you might even start an internship or a job shadow. By the time you graduate, you have your sights set on some focused professional pursuit, such as a registered nurse, graphic designer, or forensic investigator.

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South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak Shows Chilling Effect Of Vaccine Misinformation

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 12/03/2025 - 12:00am

BOILING SPRINGS, S.C. — Near the back corner of the local library’s parking lot, largely out of view from the main road, the South Carolina Department of Public Health opened a pop-up clinic in early November, offering free measles vaccines to adults and children.

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Scientists Capture The Crackling Sounds Of What They Believe Is Lightning On Mars

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 12/03/2025 - 12:00am

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover.

The crackling of electrical discharges was captured by a microphone on the rover, a French-led team reported Wednesday.

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Nonprofit News Outlets Are Often Scared That Selling Ads Could Jeopardize Their Tax-Exempt Status, But IRS Records Show That’s Been Rare

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/26/2025 - 12:00am

Although advertising revenue largely sustained the news media in the 20th century, it’s been harder to come by in the digital age. News media outlets just aren’t as important these days for advertisers when they can reach potential customers so many other ways, including through social media.

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Omaha ‘Holiday Lights Festival’ Shines Spotlight On Hunger At ‘Volatile Time’

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/26/2025 - 12:00am

Omaha’s Holiday Lights Festival illuminates 72 acres of The Riverfront parks system along with Old Market and main corridors of South and North Omaha. Shown here are previous holiday seasons at The Riverfront’s Gene Leahy Mall.
(Courtesy of Holiday Lights Festival)

OMAHA — An annual public display of holiday lights will illuminate parts of Nebraska’s most populated city starting Nov. 29.

Running concurrently is the “Shine the Light on Hunger” campaign that this year set a goal of providing 6 million meals for the Food Bank for the Heartland.

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Trans People And People Of Color Have Been Quietly Erased From National Caregiving Plan

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/26/2025 - 12:00am

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She Hurled A Javelin To Olympic Heights, Then Self-Destructed. Now She’s Sharing Her Redemption Story.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/19/2025 - 12:00am

Nebraska native Maggie Malone competes in the women's javelin throw during the U.S. track and field championships in Eugene, Ore., on July 6, 2023. She is currently training for the 2028 Summer Games. If she qualifies, it will be her fourth Olympics.
(Ashley Landis / AP Photo)

“Who are you, Maggie?”

Maggie Malone Hardin began to answer the therapist’s question.

“I’m a D-1 athlete … I’m actually a Nike athlete and …”

“No,” the therapist interrupted. “Who are you?”

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‘AgrAbility’ Program Helps Wheelchair-Bound Nebraska Farmer Return To The Field

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/19/2025 - 12:00am

Amanda Fass said she was told to prepare for the worst after her husband Eric suffered traumatic brain injury in a 2021 freak accident at the Otoe County Fair.
(Courtesy of Fass family)

SYRACUSE, Neb. — Life on the Fass farm was a lot different before that final day of the 2021 Otoe County Fair.

Eric Fass was just one year into his role as the town’s volunteer fire chief. He and wife Amanda also had been growing a small farm they bought eight years earlier. Their three kids, like many rural youths around this city of about 2,000, were showing 4-H livestock at the fair.

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Community Health Centers Provide Care For 1 In 10 Americans, But Funding Cuts Threaten Their Survival

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/19/2025 - 12:00am

Affordable health care was the primary point of contention in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, which hit 43 days on Nov. 12, 2025.

This fight highlights a persistent concern for Americans despite passage of the landmark Affordable Care Act 15 years ago.

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Nebraska Sues Nonprofits, Key Funder, Alleging They Financed Ballot Initiatives With ‘Foreign Money’

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/12/2025 - 12:00am

Advocates for a minimum degree of paid sick leave for Nebraska workers brought boxes of petition signatures to downtown Lincoln before bringing them to the Nebraska Secretary of State’s Office on June 27, 2024.
(Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — Nebraska is suing six national nonprofits and a key funder of the organizations, alleging he and the groups illegally spent more than $10 million boosting progressive state ballot initiatives with “foreign money.”

It is the first time the state has sued under a 2022 law the Legislature passed banning foreign nationals from funding ballot question campaigns in Nebraska.

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Non-Profit News

NU AE Is What You’re Looking For

South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak Shows Chilling Effect Of Vaccine Misinformation

Scientists Capture The Crackling Sounds Of What They Believe Is Lightning On Mars

Nonprofit News Outlets Are Often Scared That Selling Ads Could Jeopardize Their Tax-Exempt Status, But IRS Records Show That’s Been Rare

Omaha ‘Holiday Lights Festival’ Shines Spotlight On Hunger At ‘Volatile Time’

Trans People And People Of Color Have Been Quietly Erased From National Caregiving Plan

She Hurled A Javelin To Olympic Heights, Then Self-Destructed. Now She’s Sharing Her Redemption Story.

‘AgrAbility’ Program Helps Wheelchair-Bound Nebraska Farmer Return To The Field

Community Health Centers Provide Care For 1 In 10 Americans, But Funding Cuts Threaten Their Survival

Nebraska Sues Nonprofits, Key Funder, Alleging They Financed Ballot Initiatives With ‘Foreign Money’

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