Profiles
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...
In the way that a needle rips your senses from their lazy slumber, the first below-zero day of the winter brought with it a piercing chill. It had been put off for too long, pushed back by a warm...
Attorneys preparing to appear before Judge Richard McGowan may want to plan for a late morning docket, as Douglas County's newest judge isn't known as a morning person.
McGowan was sworn in as judge...
Today’s News
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer speaks with reporters at the White House, Oct. 30, 2025, in Washington. (Alex Brandon / AP Photo)
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...
The aftermath of the U.S. airstrike on the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, that killed 42 people. (Najim Rahim / AP Photo)
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....
Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb. (left) speaks after Gov. Jim Pillen (center) announced the appointment of former governor Pete Ricketts to Nebraska's vacant U.S. Senate seat on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, at Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln, Neb. (Kenneth Ferriera / Lincoln Journal Star via AP)
It must be nice to be a Republican Senator these days. You get all the perks of being a Senator, but you don’t really have to do your job. You just do whatever the President tells you to do.
Pete...
Nebraska U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts during his campaign event in Omaha on Jan. 16, 2026. (Juan Salinas II / Nebraska Examiner)
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...
This 2025 photo provided by Matt Schulz shows Charles "Sonny" Burton at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala. (Matt Schulz via AP)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old inmate who was set to be executed this week even though he was not in the building when the...
This Week's News
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...
This 2025 photo provided by Matt Schulz shows Charles "Sonny" Burton at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala. (Matt Schulz via AP)
03/13/2026 - 12:00am
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old inmate who was set to be executed this week even though he was not in the building when the victim was killed during a 1991 robbery.
Ivey reduced...
03/13/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Lawmakers kept $3.5 million in Nebraska’s state budget Monday to help students using voter-repealed state funding to attend private K-12 schools with one-time “bridge” support until a new federal tax credit comes online.
An amendment to...
The Dakota County Jail in Dakota City on March 4. In February, Dakota County commissioners appointed then-Chief Deputy Tim Decker as the new Dakota County sheriff. Decker had served as chief deputy for 15 years under the former sheriff. (Jerry L Mennenga / Flatwater Free Press)
03/13/2026 - 12:00am
The off-duty police officer had been drinking heavily at a casino and at a South Dakota bar in September 2005 when a convicted felon who had bad blood with Officer Tim Decker walked in.
Within minutes, the North Sioux City cop approached, and the...
This image provided by U.S. Central Command shows the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Thomas Hudner (DDG 116) firing a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) in support of Operation Epic Fury, on Sunday, March 1, 2026. (U.S. Navy via AP)
03/13/2026 - 12:00am
Though the twenty-four-hour news cycle inundates us with everything from the unending sludge that comes out of Washington to some ‘great new medical discovery’ that turns out to be based on an erroneous paper, finding the right topic to write an...
Nebraska Auditor of Public Accounts Mike Foley testifies before the Legislature’s Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee, Feb. 5, 2026. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
03/13/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — The Lincoln Police Department is now investigating a $2.5 million no-bid emergency contract between the Nebraska Department of Economic Development and a Lincoln contractor Gov. Jim Pillen recommended.
State Auditor Mike Foley has said the...
03/12/2026 - 12:00am
SUGARLOAF, Pa. (AP) — For John Zola, the 40 acres were like a paradise: apple orchards tucked into northern Pennsylvania's rolling hills, a barn, meadows and more than enough land for four houses: one for himself and his wife and each of his three...
03/12/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska policy-makers have talked “ad nauseam” about a statewide housing and worker shortage and the need to do something about it, State Sen. Jane Raybould of Lincoln said Monday, echoing the sentiment of several colleagues.
On a 32-8...
03/12/2026 - 12:00am
ODAKA, Japan (AP) — Fifteen years after the 2011 nuclear disaster, color-coded radiation maps hang on the wall of Futabaya Ryokan, the family-run inn Tomoko Kobayashi operates in her near-deserted hometown in northeastern Fukushima.
Kobayashi...
Housing costs are making it harder for communities and businesses to lure workers to open jobs in Nebraska and elsewhere. (Nati Harnik / AP Photo)
03/12/2026 - 12:00am
When Americans decide where to live, they rarely talk about regulation. They talk about jobs, taxes, affordability, opportunity and whether a place feels open to building a future.
Yet behind each of those considerations lies a quieter force shaping...
03/12/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Early construction work has launched on a long-awaited “critical minerals” mine in southeast Nebraska, with state and local officials starting the digging during a recent briefing at the project site.
U.S. Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Neb., was...
Emma MacTaggart, founder of What's the Stitch needlepoint business, is photographed in her studio, in New York, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo / Richard Drew)
03/11/2026 - 12:00am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — By age 23, Emma MacTaggart was already noticing how rare her free time was — and how it was seldom screen-free.
She was working long hours in investment banking and once she was finally able to log off after work, she would turn...
03/11/2026 - 12:00am
Every morning, people fasten their watch, slip on a bracelet and head out the door without thinking much about what they might encounter along the way. The air they breathe, the dust on their hands and the surfaces they touch all feel ordinary. Yet...
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03/11/2026 - 12:00am
I had to nearly trot to keep up with Teresa as she made her way down the main boulevard to the stable. Even when I told her the son of God had given me this mission, she seemed more focused on the fact that there were children to be saved....
Drivers wait in line at a mobile food bank organized by Crossroads Mission Avenue near the Tyson Foods' beef plant in Lexington, Neb., Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. (Thomas Peipert / AP Photo)
03/11/2026 - 12:00am
OMAHA — A $1.1 million gift from Omaha-based Sherwood Foundation aims to provide emergency help to former Tyson Foods employees still looking for work after the company closed its Lexington, Nebraska, plant in January.
The donation was announced...
George Achola, a representative of the team working on the northeast Omaha business park development, explains during a January community meeting that a possible use for part of a 67-acre area near 16th and Locust Streets includes a youth sports facility. That is one of two sites the team decided to purchase for the business park initiative. (Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)
03/10/2026 - 12:00am
OMAHA — After years of talk, concepts and controversy, creation of a northeast Omaha industrial business park reached a major milestone.
Revealed Thursday: The team that in early 2024 was awarded a $90 million state grant to develop shovel-ready...
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03/10/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — The Nebraska Legislature is trying to clean up a new law meant to be tough on foreign adversaries.
State Sen. Eliot Bostar of Lincoln, who authored the Foreign Adversary and Terrorist Agent Registration Act that passed in 2025 with Gov....
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When Unpaid Cooking, Cleaning And Child Care Get A Dollar Value, Income Inequality In The US Shrinks
03/10/2026 - 12:00am
When economists track inequality, they typically focus on income and spending.
But a significant share of the services that families actually consume – meals cooked at home, child care, housecleaning and lawn mowing – is produced by unpaid labor...
