Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 04/17/2025 - 3:00am
OSAKA, Japan (AP) — The Expo 2025 opened in Osaka on Sunday with more than 10,000 people singing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to celebrate the start of the six-month event that Japan hopes will unite the world divided by tensions and wars.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 04/16/2025 - 5:00am
LINCOLN — While growing up in south Lincoln, Loren Eiseley would often venture down to a small stream near his home to gather specimens for his homemade aquarium.
Once, the story goes, he almost drowned while exploring at a nearby pond, a pond now located on the Lincoln Country Club golf course grounds.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 04/10/2025 - 7:00am
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.
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.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 04/10/2025 - 5:00am
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.
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.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 04/10/2025 - 3:00am
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.
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.”
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 04/03/2025 - 4:00am
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.