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Omaha Mayor Sees Public Benefit To Putting City Park In Hands Of Private Foundation

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 12/11/2025 - 12:00am

The City of Omaha is exploring a pact with the Lozier Foundation to form the Miller Park Trust, wherein the philanthropist organization would manage and cover costs of Miller Park pavilion programming and park grounds maintenance.
(Courtesy of City of Omaha Parks and Recreation)

OMAHA — Mayor John Ewing Jr. sees only public good coming from a proposed arrangement to put a major North Omaha city park under the management of a local philanthropic group that already has invested in Miller Park.

Former State Sen. Justin Wayne, however, took to social media to characterize the move as a “quid pro quo” that would be bad for North Omahans.

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The Housing Crisis Is Forcing Americans To Choose Between Affordability And Safety

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 12/11/2025 - 12:00am

A family moves belongings out of a second floor window of a farm house to a waiting boat near Bristol, T.X., in Ellis County on Saturday, May 5, 1990.
(Pat Sullivan / AP Photo)

Picture this: You’re looking to buy a place to live, and you have two options.

Option A is a beautiful home in California near good schools and job opportunities. But it goes for nearly a million dollars – the median California home sells for US$906,500 – and you’d be paying a mortgage that’s risen 82% since January 2020.

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What Does It Mean To Be A New National Park? Ocmulgee Mounds In Georgia May Soon Find Out

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 12/11/2025 - 12:00am

Fog covers the New River Gorge Bridge as people make their way to the annual Bridge Day festival in Fayetteville, WVa., on Saturday Oct. 19, 2019. The New River Gorge is the site of the annual Bridge Day festival, where many gather to watch people base jump into the gorge. The river became New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in 2020.
(F. Brian Ferguson / Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP)

Ocmulgee Mounds, a site in central Georgia with 12,000 years of Indigenous history, may be on the verge of becoming the newest U.S. national park. This is the flagship designation of the National Park Service system, which includes many types of properties in addition to formally designated national parks.

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More People Crowdfunded For Essential Needs Like Food And Housing In 2025, According To GoFundMe

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 12/11/2025 - 12:00am

NEW YORK (AP) — More and more people are turning to GoFundMe for help covering the cost of housing, food and other basic needs.

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Competition For Nebraska’s ‘Carhenge’ Rises Near South Dakota’s Badlands

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

An aerial view of “Firehenge,” the viral marketing effort of a Rapid City brewer with Nebraska ties along Interstate 90 in South Dakota near Kadoka.
(Courtesy of Firehouse Brewing Co.)

KADOKA, S.D. — Nebraska’s quirky replica of England’s prehistoric Stonehenge, “Carhenge,” is about to get some new competition in a neighboring state. And a former Nebraskan is behind it.

Rising from a dusty, prairie ridge along Interstate 90 near this Badlands-area town is a collection of firetrucks dubbed “Firehenge.”

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The Bloating Bog: Washington

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

Those ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ are at it again, at their home in The Swamp, where, by diktat and threat of force, our tax money is channeled. While all the rest of us in the United States work and spend our dimes, churning the economy, the money we send for the upkeep of our roads and schools, and military, seems to fall into greasy and greedy hands.

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Port Authority Leaders Say State Is Withholding Funds, Slowing Economic Progress In Northeast Omaha

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

OMAHA — An Omaha entity tasked with helping revive some of the most depressed neighborhoods in Nebraska is at odds with state officials it said are refusing to release $11 million in state funds needed for programming.

The Omaha Inland Port Authority, which was authorized by state law and created by the city to promote economic development in northeast Omaha, said it may have to turn to legal action.

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Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up The Tab.

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

Owner Stan Kroenke of the Los Angeles Rams and one of America’s largest property owners, stands on the sideline before the Rams play against the San Francisco 49ers in an NFL football game, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, in Santa Clara, Calif.
(Jeff Lewis / AP Photo)

Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab.

Stan Kroenke doesn’t need federal help to make a business flourish. He is worth an estimated $20 billion, a fortune that has allowed him to become one of America’s largest property owners and afforded him stakes in storied sports franchises, including the Denver Nuggets and England’s Arsenal soccer club.

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Nebraskans Lament Tyson Decision To Close Lexington Plant With 3,200 Workers

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/27/2025 - 12:00am

LINCOLN — In a blow to the local economy of Lexington, Nebraska, Tyson Foods announced that it is closing the town’s longtime Tyson beef plant that employed about 3,200 people.

The Arkansas-based Tyson said in a statement that changes were designed to “right-size” its beef business and position it for long-term success.

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The Smallest Tear

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/27/2025 - 12:00am

Like a sleeping giant whose body is hidden just beneath dark waves, the base nature of mankind has been stirring the world over. One of the giant’s hands has come out of the midnight sea to grip the earth to leverage it better to stand. That hand crushes the nation of Ukraine under the hum of soulless drones committing soulless murder.