Profiles
There is perhaps nothing harder on Earth, than to lose a loved one, whether it’s quick and sudden or a prolonged illness – be it a favorite grandparent or someone still in the prime of their life....
Sherry Kolli, a registered nurse, healing-touch practitioner, co-founder of Peaceful Hearts Hospice and board member of Holistic Hearts Foundation. (Courtesy Photo)
There is no cure, the best we can do is offer palliative care to ease the discomfort. For anyone who has ever heard these dreaded words, know their world is about to crumble.
But there are people and...
She emigrated from Russia to Minnesota, fresh after graduating college, with scant money to her name – to no doubt achieve the American dream.
At that point, a law career wasn’t even visible on the...
Former Husker football coach Tom Osborne (center), speaks at a February 2023 event with Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (just behind Osborne), at which Pillen designated the month as “Nebraska Mentoring Month.” (Courtesy of Nebraska Governor’s Office)
LINCOLN — The full Nebraska Legislature is set to weigh whether to make an exception in state law to add former Husker football coach and former U.S. Rep. Tom Osborne to the Nebraska Hall of Fame as...
Though my email address is at the bottom of each of the articles that I have written, the only people to ever send me replies are restaurants looking to get reviewed by me, while strangely I have yet...
Today’s News
More than 100 state employees rallied during a noon hour in early December against Gov. Jim Pillen’s order to end remote work, Dec. 7, 2023. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
LINCOLN — Lawmakers moved a step closer Tuesday to providing six weeks of paid maternity leave to all female Nebraska state employees after they give birth or adopt a child.
Nearly all female state...
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. (Mark Schiefelbein / AP Photo)
This story was originally reported by Marissa Martinez of The 19th. Meet Marissa and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy.
This week, the Senate will take up the SAVE America...
A military transport and surveillance vehicle is parked in a newly designated national defense area on June 11, 2025, along the southern U.S. border in El Paso, Texas. (Morgan Lee / AP Photo)
The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law
Jose Omar Flores-Penaloza was willing to admit that he had entered the...
Former U.S. Marshall for Nebraska Mark Martinez has sought to unseat Douglas County Sheriff Aaron Hanson. (Courtesy of the Martinez campaign)
I’m not saying that Danielle Jensen, the Douglas County Election Commissioner, made the wrong call when she said that Mark Martinez couldn’t run for Douglas County Sheriff. But I’m not saying it was...
LINCOLN — Nebraska lawmakers voted against proposed salary increases for the state’s top constitutional officers Tuesday, with most of those officials coming out against the proposal.
Nebraska Gov....
This Week's News
More than 100 state employees rallied during a noon hour in early December against Gov. Jim Pillen’s order to end remote work, Dec. 7, 2023. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
03/20/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Lawmakers moved a step closer Tuesday to providing six weeks of paid maternity leave to all female Nebraska state employees after they give birth or adopt a child.
Nearly all female state employees are already offered six weeks of paid...
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. (Mark Schiefelbein / AP Photo)
03/20/2026 - 12:00am
This story was originally reported by Marissa Martinez of The 19th. Meet Marissa and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy.
This week, the Senate will take up the SAVE America Act, the second version of an extensive elections...
A military transport and surveillance vehicle is parked in a newly designated national defense area on June 11, 2025, along the southern U.S. border in El Paso, Texas. (Morgan Lee / AP Photo)
03/20/2026 - 12:00am
The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law
Jose Omar Flores-Penaloza was willing to admit that he had entered the United States illegally. He was ready to be deported...
03/20/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska lawmakers voted against proposed salary increases for the state’s top constitutional officers Tuesday, with most of those officials coming out against the proposal.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, one of the people who would get a raise...
Federal immigration agents allow an arrested man to talk to his wife on the phone in Robbinsdale, Minn., in February. Recent immigration operations have resulted in some households losing a provider and renters facing eviction. (Nicole Neri / Minnesota Reformer)
03/19/2026 - 12:00am
As federal immigration officers made more “at-large” arrests in communities across the country in the first year of the current Trump administration — including at homes, places of worship and workplaces — more than 1,100 Nebraska families developed...
03/19/2026 - 12:00am
NEBRASKA CITY, Nebraska – After nearly a decade of neglect and finger pointing, peace and plans for a positive future are breaking out at one of Nebraska’s leading historical attractions.
Mayhew Cabin and John Brown’s Cave has been closed since 2019...
The bronze statue of Spartan King Leonidas is seen Tuesday March 20 2007 in Thermopylae, which lies about 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Athens, marking the site where according to legend 300 Spartans held off hundreds of thousands of invading Persians in 480 BC. (Petros Giannakouris / AP Photo)
03/19/2026 - 12:00am
If the members of a society are fully ‘good’, then there is no need for law.
It is a simple, if humanly unobtainable premise; however, unreachable, it will serve as general groundwork for this essay, which is to say in part that eventually all (...
03/19/2026 - 12:00am
A cool morning breeze floated through the serene, green middle of the Highlander development in the heart of North Omaha, and on that breeze wafted the gentle exhortations of a yoga teacher.
“Inhale, breathe in,” the teacher, Lindsay Decker, urged...
Bob Kukuk, who has been homeless for about 10 days, walks with his dog Mickey after getting ice and water, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Kukuk keeps Mickey wrapped in a cold wet towel and periodically rubs him with ice. (Mike Simons / Tulsa World via AP)
03/18/2026 - 12:00am
When homeless shelters allow people to stay with their dogs and other pets, more unhoused people become more willing to stay in a shelter.
That’s what my team at the University of Southern California’s Homelessness Policy Research Institute learned...
Jenilee Woltman of Hemingford, Nebraska, founded Sand Canyon Therapy and was recognized by the Nebraska Business Development Center’s Innovation Business of the Year award. (Courtesy of NBDC)
03/17/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — A small-town Nebraska mom grew weary of having to travel to get speech therapy for her daughter. She went back to school to become an expert, opened her own clinic in Hemingford, with its population of less than 800, and developed a...
03/17/2026 - 12:00am
ABBEVILLE, La. (AP) — Jacob Sagrera unrolls an alligator skin and lays it flat on a metal table, brushing off flecks of salt. He holds it up to the light, looking for blemishes, and gives it a score. That score will help a tannery an ocean away...
03/17/2026 - 12:00am
Fouad Mhadji Issa looks to his adopted home of Nebraska when searching for a comparison to describe the role of vanilla in his home country of Comoros.
“Vanilla is farmed widely in Comoros,” he says, “like corn is in Nebraska.”
The marriage of those...
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer speaks with reporters at the White House, Oct. 30, 2025, in Washington. (Alex Brandon / AP Photo)
03/16/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday opened a new trade investigation into manufacturing in foreign countries — an effort that comes after the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s previous use of tariffs by declaring...
The aftermath of the U.S. airstrike on the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, that killed 42 people. (Najim Rahim / AP Photo)
03/16/2026 - 12:00am
Images from the missile strike in southern Iran were more horrifying than any of the case studies Air Force combat veteran Wes J. Bryant had pored over in his mission to overhaul how the U.S. military safeguards civilian life.
Parents wept over...
Nebraska U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts during his campaign event in Omaha on Jan. 16, 2026. (Juan Salinas II / Nebraska Examiner)
03/16/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska’s two Republican U.S. senators might be split on weakening the Senate filibuster as Senate leadership tries to cool down calls to nuke the upper chamber’s legislative brakes using a procedural move to temporarily lower the voting...
