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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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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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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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Tough Calls And Tight Bonds: Nebraska Family Carries Refereeing Legacy Across Four Generations

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

Don Janssen with granddaughter Emma Kwapnioski (center) and daughter Kim Kwapnioski. Kim, Janssen’s daughter, is in her 32nd year officiating, and Emma is in her fourth year of officiating, making her the fourth generation of the family to officiate volleyball for the NSAA.
(Sheryl Schmeckpeper / Flatwater Free Press)

When Emma Kwapnioski donned her Nebraska high school volleyball official’s shirt in 2021, she wasn’t thinking about her mom. Or her grandfather. Or her great-grandfather.

Nervousness blocked any thoughts of family legacy.

“I read through the case book and rules book three times (before the match),” she recalled.

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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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What Unites Nebraskans? Supporting Children And Families

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

When Congress returns to work and Nebraska lawmakers prepare for the 2026 legislative session in January, there are few issues that garner as much bipartisan support on the federal or state level as child care.

New data from research conducted in four states, including Nebraska, shows something that may surprise many: Nebraskans share more common ground than our divisions often suggest.

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Trump Administration Seeks To Halt SNAP Food Aid Payments After A Court Order

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

A sign for a food pantry for federal workers is seen as TSA agents check identification at a security checkpoint at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, in SeaTac, Wash.
(Lindsey Wasson / AP Photo)

BOSTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration asked a federal appeals court Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s full monthly SNAP food benefits amid a U.S. government shutdown, even as at least some states said they were moving quickly to get the money to people.

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Non-Profit News

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

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

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

Tough Calls And Tight Bonds: Nebraska Family Carries Refereeing Legacy Across Four Generations

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

What Unites Nebraskans? Supporting Children And Families

Trump Administration Seeks To Halt SNAP Food Aid Payments After A Court Order

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