BELLEVUE — A “point in time” homeless count revealed some startling scenarios in Nebraska’s fastest-growing county, even to those who work daily with low-income populations.

Lift Up Sarpy County, in cooperation with several partners, sent teams out during a four-hour period Jan. 23 to try to get an estimate of people without permanent homes.

Erica Manoatl got on waitlists for child care when she was about 12 weeks pregnant with her daughter. It should have been enough time, she thought then. Now, her daughter is almost a year and a half old. Manoatl is still waiting.

LINCOLN — A state legislative committee teed up for debate a package of proposals Thursday intended to provide Nebraskans with as much property tax relief as provided by a group of proposed income tax cuts.

Since 2005, more than 2,500 local newspapers, most of them weeklies, have closed, with more closures on the way.

Responses to the decline have ranged from dailies to encouraging digital startups. But the number of interested billionaires is limited, and many digital startups have struggled to generate the revenue and audience needed to survive.