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Spinning Round And Round: Vinyl Albums Enjoy Popularity Resurgence

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 04/10/2025 - 7:00am

Homer’s Records has been a mainstay in Omaha’s Old Market since 1971. Record Store Day is this weekend on Saturday, April 12th!
(Tim Trudell / The Daily Record)

The crackle of the needle as he places it on a favorite album sends Cory Damgaard down memory lane. Classic artists - Ella Fitzgerald, Buddy Guy and Pink Floyd among them- are best remembered on vinyl, he said. A fan of the classic sounds emanating from speakers with older vinyl, Damgaard enjoys the experience.

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Pride Before Destruction

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 04/10/2025 - 6:00am

Sometimes when a person loves something they will water down or ignore the bad qualities of the thing. Having worked in childcare for a decade, I have seen firsthand parents who love their children but accept (and then attempt to rectify) the negative behavior their child exhibited that I or a colleague reported to them.

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State Funds Spark Larger ‘Project Game On’ With New YMCA, Omaha North Sports Stadium

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 04/10/2025 - 5:00am

Terence “Bud” Crawford was among speakers at the event Friday in North Omaha.
(Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)

OMAHA — A $2 million state grant originally slated to rehab a YMCA community center helped spark “Project Game On” — a campus featuring a new YMCA as well as a football and soccer stadium for Omaha North High School.

Officials did not provide a price tag Friday when announcing the broader development that one official described as a “defining moment” for North Omaha.

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More Homes For Sale And Easing Rates Favor Homebuyers This Spring, But Affordability Hurdles Remain

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 04/10/2025 - 4:00am

LOS ANGELES (AP) — This spring homebuying season is shaping up to be more favorable for home shoppers than it's been in recent years — as long as they can afford to buy.

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Can One Of Africa's Largest Refugee Camps Evolve Into A City?

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 04/10/2025 - 3:00am

General view part of Kakuma refugee camp in Turkana county, Kenya, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025.
(Jackson Njehia / AP Photo)

KAKUMA, Kenya (AP) — Windswept and remote, set in the cattle-rustling lands of Kenya’s northwest, Kakuma was never meant to be permanently settled.

It became one of Africa’s most famous refugee camps by accident as people escaping calamity in countries like South Sudan, Ethiopia and Congo poured in.

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U.S. News & World Report Puts Omaha Atop Its Hot U.S. Housing Market List

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 04/03/2025 - 7:00am

OMAHA — The Omaha metropolitan area topped a list of hottest housing markets in a new national analysis by U.S. News & World Report.

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America….is

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 04/03/2025 - 6:00am

America is… what? Beyond a country that people reside in - what has she become? If she had a face, would it be the Statue of Liberty? And if so and she spoke, would it be the voice of Emma Lazarus?

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

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3D Printed And Factory-Built Homes Could Help Tackle Housing Crisis

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 04/03/2025 - 4:00am

Modular homes built by Fading West are seen in Buena Vista, Colo., on Feb. 19, 2025.
(Thomas Peipert / AP Photo)

DENVER (AP) — As Americans struggle under backbreaking rental prices, builders are turning to innovative ways to churn out more housing, from 3D printing to assembling homes in an indoor factory to using hemp — yes, the marijuana cousin — to make building blocks for walls.

It's a response to the country's shortfall of millions of homes that has led to skyrocketing prices, plunging millions into poverty.

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Mortgage Company Rocket Buying Mr. Cooper In All-Stock Deal Valued At $9.4 Billion

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 04/03/2025 - 12:00am

The mortgage company Rocket is buying competitor Mr. Cooper in an all-stock deal valued at $9.4 billion, just weeks after acquiring real estate listing company Redfin.

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Bellevue Water Park Start Marks First New Major Tourism Build In A Nebraska ‘Good Life’ District

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 03/27/2025 - 7:00am

Dirt is moving at the site of future Bellevue Bay Indoor Water Park at Highways 75 and 34. The groundbreaking event Thursday marks the first new major tourism construction project at a Nebraska good life district, officials say.
(Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)

BELLEVUE, Nebraska — Construction officially kicked off Thursday on what Bellevue called the “crown jewel” of its state-approved good life district, despite uncertainty still swirling around a proposed revamp of the law governing such districts.