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As OPPD Votes To Raise Its Rates And Board Of Directors’ Salaries, What’s In It For Us?

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/28/2024 - 6:00am

The Omaha Public Power District’s board of directors will be voting on a proposal to greatly increase board members’ salaries at its Thursday meeting. OPPD is also proposing an 8% residential rate increase.

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What To Know About Scott Turner, Trump's Pick For Housing Secretary

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/28/2024 - 5:00am

Scott Turner, President-elect Donald Trump choice to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, is a former NFL player who ran the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council during Trump’s first term.

Turner, 52, is the first Black person selected to be a member of the Republican's Cabinet.

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Iowa Supreme Court Upholds Land Survey Abilities Of Pipeline Companies In Summit Case

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/28/2024 - 4:00am

The Iowa Supreme Court affirmed a lower court’s decision that Summit Carbon Solutions is allowed temporary access to properties for surveying, because it is a pipeline company that would be transporting a hazardous liquid.

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From The Ashes Of A Fire-Damaged Mortuary Rises A South Omaha Workforce Development Facility

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/21/2024 - 7:00am

The new South Omaha site for Heartland Workforce Solutions at 4425 S. 24th Street. The $3.2 million renovation project transformed a fire-damaged, condemned funeral parlor into the workforce development, one-stop shop that also will contain a coffee shop. The nonprofit Canopy South is landlord and developer, tapping mostly philanthropic funds for the renovation. HWS used American Rescue Plan Act grant funds to cover its costs to open in the facility.
(Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)

OMAHA — Four years after a fire ended its run as a funeral home, a South Omaha building has been resurrected as a one-stop service hub for area residents ready to improve their careers and find jobs.

The structure will come alive Monday as the anchor tenant, Heartland Workforce Solutions, celebrates with a ribbon cutting and open house.

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The Matt Gaetz Test

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/21/2024 - 6:00am

Are you shocked? Matt Gaetz as attorney general. A man with virtually no experience as anything other than an election denier, a Jan. 6 troublemaker who called the rioters "patriotic Americans," a man who was within days of a withering report from the House Ethics Committee on everything from underage sex to misuse of campaign funds, this is the man who Donald Trump wants to be the nation's chief law enforcement officer.

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Robo Price-Fixing: Why The Justice Department Is Suing A Software Company To Stop Landlords Colluding On Rents

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/21/2024 - 5:00am

Of all the reasons it could be hard to pay rent each month, did you have an algorithm-powered illegal cartel on your list?

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Affordable Housing Concerns Sparked By Omaha’s Electrical Code Update

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/21/2024 - 4:00am

Nick Dolphens, vice president of The Home Company and builders council chair at Metro Omaha Builders Association.
(Courtesy of The Home Company)

OMAHA — An effort to update the City of Omaha’s electrical code, typically not a huge headline-maker, has sparked a bit of fireworks and divided the lawmaking body of Nebraska’s largest city.

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Downtown Omaha, Primed For Growth, Recovering Quicker Than Peers

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 7:00am

The renovated Gene Leahy Mall has helped draw visitors downtown. The mall and two other downtown parks, known as the Riverfront, have attracted roughly 3 million people since July 2022.
(Abiola Kosoko / Flatwater Free Press)

OMAHA — When Mary-Beth and Bruce Muskin moved to downtown Omaha 12 years ago, they found a quieter neighborhood primarily inhabited by singles and older residents. That is not the case today, they said.

“You’ve seen a tremendous amount of growth as far as building, the amount of people that are living downtown, even some young families,” Bruce Muskin said.

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Remembering Democracy

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 6:00am

Someday, someone's going to have to remember.

If it's not too many years, it might not be that hard to remember, but if it's longer, it's going to be harder.

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Nebraska Cities Make Key Strides In Pursuit Of Activating ‘Good Life Districts’

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 5:00am

A vision of the Good Life District that would include and surround Nebraska Crossing centered at Interstate 80 and Highway 31. In the background are residential towers that could rise at the site along with a billion-dollar youth sports complex.
(Courtesy of Nebraska Crossing)

GRETNA — The pursuit of the “good life” in Nebraska made a few key strides this week — as measured by progress toward building Good Life Districts aimed at luring new tourism, retailers and other pizzazz to the state.