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Ricketts’ Riches: Wealthy Governor Widened Gulf In Nebraska Legislature, Observers Say

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 12/02/2024 - 11:26am

In January 2017, Patrick O’Donnell entered the Nebraska State Capitol’s cavernous legislative chamber, air heavy with the echo of history’s fierce debates and whispered negotiations.

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The Family-Run Businesses That Make Thanksgiving Possible

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 12/02/2024 - 11:24am

LEECHBURG, Pennsylvania -- Tom McIlwain is sitting just outside the double doors leading to the country store at Pounds Farm, shaking off the chill and warming up with a cup of hot coffee. The 91-year-old has just finished herding the last batch of live turkeys, gathering them onto a large trailer to go to the processing center for this year's Thanksgiving season.

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U.S. Rep. Don Bacon Keeps Outperforming The ‘Blue Dot’ In Nebraska’s 2nd District

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 12/02/2024 - 11:20am

U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., addresses supporters outside of his west Omaha campaign office after claiming victory.
(Aaron Sanderford / Nebraska Examiner)

OMAHA — Republican U.S. Rep. Don Bacon in 2024 defied the “blue dot” for a second straight presidential election. He won Nebraska’s Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District in another year in which the district’s voters backed a Democrat over former President Donald Trump.

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Nebraska’s Dan Osborn Starts Hybrid PAC For Working-Class Candidates

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 11/25/2024 - 7:00am

U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn meets with prospective voters at a Big Red Keno in west Lincoln on Oct. 20, 2024.
(Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)

OMAHA — Dan Osborn, the former Nebraska nonpartisan U.S. Senate candidate, announced a political action committee Tuesday aimed at boosting working-class candidates for Congress like him.

He designed his Working Class Heroes Fund as a hybrid PAC that blends a super PAC that can take donations with fewer limits and a separate account for independent expenditures.

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Biden Was the Fluke in 2020, Not Trump in 2016

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 11/25/2024 - 6:00am

President-elect Donald Trump's win two weeks ago in Pennsylvania was always right in front of you if you were objectively listening to the concerns of the people and the data showing the most important, misread trend of all: The Republican Party had now become the party of work.

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Trump Picks Dr. Oz, The Celebrity TV Doctor, To Run Medicare And Medicaid

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 11/25/2024 - 5:00am

Originally published by The 19th

Donald Trump intends to nominate celebrity TV physician Dr. Mehmet Oz to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the $1 trillion federal institution in charge of two of the country’s most influential health insurance programs.

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Biden Has Become Notably Quiet After The 2024 Election And Democrats' Loss

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 11/25/2024 - 3:00am

President Joe Biden walks to speak following a tour of the Museu da Amazonia, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024, in Manaus, Brazil.
(Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP Photo)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has been notably quiet since the Democrats' gut-wrenching defeat at the polls.

After warning voters for years that a Donald Trump win would be calamitous for American democracy, Biden has gone largely silent on his concerns about what lays ahead for America and he has yet to substantively reflect on why Democrats were decisively defeated up and down the ballot.

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Pillen Appoints New DHHS Director Of Medicaid And Long-Term Care

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 11/25/2024 - 2:00am

LINCOLN — Gov. Jim Pillen on Tuesday announced his appointment of Drew Gonshorowski as director of Medicaid and Long-Term Care for the Department of Health and Human Services, drawing immediate concern from at least one state lawmaker.

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Trump Taps Linda McMahon, Donor And Former Wrestling Exec, To Be Education Chief

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 11/25/2024 - 1:00am

Linda McMahon, Trump’s pick to be the next education secretary, speaking during the Republican National Convention on Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee.
(J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo)

Trump Taps Linda McMahon, Donor and Former Wrestling Exec, to be Education Chief

Despite championing apprenticeships and workforce development, her main charge may be dismantling the department she’s set to lead.

By Linda Jacobson

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NE’s Top Labor Official, John Albin, To Retire Following A 35-Year Run With The Labor Department

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 11/18/2024 - 7:00am

LINCOLN — John Albin remembers back in 1990, when Nebraskans still filled out paper unemployment claims, and his new colleagues at the State Department of Labor entered the data into a mainframe computer.

Today those services are all online. The department that Albin rose within has modernized in myriad other ways and, more recently, pushed through a pandemic that stressed labor departments nationwide.

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Ricketts’ Riches: Wealthy Governor Widened Gulf In Nebraska Legislature, Observers Say

The Family-Run Businesses That Make Thanksgiving Possible

U.S. Rep. Don Bacon Keeps Outperforming The ‘Blue Dot’ In Nebraska’s 2nd District

Nebraska’s Dan Osborn Starts Hybrid PAC For Working-Class Candidates

Biden Was the Fluke in 2020, Not Trump in 2016

Trump Picks Dr. Oz, The Celebrity TV Doctor, To Run Medicare And Medicaid

Biden Has Become Notably Quiet After The 2024 Election And Democrats' Loss

Pillen Appoints New DHHS Director Of Medicaid And Long-Term Care

Trump Taps Linda McMahon, Donor And Former Wrestling Exec, To Be Education Chief

Trump Taps Linda McMahon, Donor and Former Wrestling Exec, to be Education Chief

Despite championing apprenticeships and workforce development, her main charge may be dismantling the department she’s set to lead.

NE’s Top Labor Official, John Albin, To Retire Following A 35-Year Run With The Labor Department

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