Profiles
Dan Schultz transitioned from a military career as an electronic warfare officer to opening a housecleaning franchise. He embraces his military training in building the franchise. (Tim Trudell / The Daily Record)
Dan Schultz likely could have had his pick of jobs when he retired from the Air Force. Defense-related contractor positions were within his grasp. With two master's degrees, maybe he could have used...
I hate America - hardly. But it wasn’t one person speaking ... It was millions, collectively united as one.
From sea to shining sea and beyond our nation’s shores, people rallied together in rural,...
It is set in stone, unlike the Constitution, our nation’s rule of law, many are valiantly defending to this day.
On Aug. 10, 1875, six attorneys convened at the Douglas County Courthouse to...
With visions of a resurgent neighborhood, supporters of redevelopment in the Saddle Creek see couples strolling through the neighborhood enjoying date nights, families grabbing a bite to eat and...
Writing this article from the perspectives of local, Omaha-Metropolitan mechanics was more difficult than I imagined it being. The idea behind this piece was to provide data on reliable cars (and...
Today’s News
President Donald Trump speaks at the McDonald's Impact Summit, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, in Washington. (Alex Brandon / AP Photo)
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed into law late Wednesday a bill compelling the release of unclassified investigative files from the case against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with...
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has...
The federal immigration court sits less than two miles southwest of Eppley Airfield in Omaha. (Jeremy Turley / Flatwater Free Press)
Judge Matthew Morrissey fired off their names one by one over the course of an hour.
Castro, Leiva, Galicia, Durán, Cucul, Oporta, Pérez, Sierra.
Appearing in colored jumpsuits on a screen in...
Tim Royers, president of the Nebraska State Education Association (left), and former State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan of the Elkhorn area participate in a debate on Nebraska education policy, including school choice, at the 50th annual Nebraska Ecumenical Legislative Briefing Day at Christ United Methodist Church in Lincoln, Feb. 8, 2025. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
In late September, Gov. Jim Pillen held a press conference to announce that he would opt Nebraska into the newly created federal school-choice tax credit program.
He could have used that moment to...
OMAHA — In the officially nonpartisan Nebraska Unicameral, the Democratic-leaning minority bloc currently has 16 seats, including progressive Omaha nonpartisan State Sen. Megan Hunt.
That means the...
This Week's News
President Donald Trump speaks at the McDonald's Impact Summit, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, in Washington. (Alex Brandon / AP Photo)
11/24/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed into law late Wednesday a bill compelling the release of unclassified investigative files from the case against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with whom he shared a well-documented friendship,...
11/24/2025 - 12:00am
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found.
The predictive intelligence program has...
The federal immigration court sits less than two miles southwest of Eppley Airfield in Omaha. (Jeremy Turley / Flatwater Free Press)
11/24/2025 - 12:00am
Judge Matthew Morrissey fired off their names one by one over the course of an hour.
Castro, Leiva, Galicia, Durán, Cucul, Oporta, Pérez, Sierra.
Appearing in colored jumpsuits on a screen in Morrissey’s courtroom, the men come from different...
Tim Royers, president of the Nebraska State Education Association (left), and former State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan of the Elkhorn area participate in a debate on Nebraska education policy, including school choice, at the 50th annual Nebraska Ecumenical Legislative Briefing Day at Christ United Methodist Church in Lincoln, Feb. 8, 2025. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
11/24/2025 - 12:00am
In late September, Gov. Jim Pillen held a press conference to announce that he would opt Nebraska into the newly created federal school-choice tax credit program.
He could have used that moment to rally Nebraskans around a shared belief that every...
11/24/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA — In the officially nonpartisan Nebraska Unicameral, the Democratic-leaning minority bloc currently has 16 seats, including progressive Omaha nonpartisan State Sen. Megan Hunt.
That means the Legislature’s partisan minority, when united,...
11/21/2025 - 12:00am
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Online influencer Andrew Tate, a self-described misogynist who has millions of young male followers, was facing allegations of sex trafficking...
11/21/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Faculty leaders at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln overwhelmingly passed a resolution Tuesday expressing “no confidence” in Chancellor Rodney Bennett and urging his bosses to reconsider his employment.
It is the first “no confidence”...
11/21/2025 - 12:00am
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ruled there would be no prison time for a former Alaska Airlines pilot who had taken psychedelic mushrooms days before he tried to cut the engines of a passenger flight in 2023 while riding off-duty in...
11/21/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Every member of Nebraska’s all-Republican congressional delegation voted for a bill to compel the U.S. Department of Justice to release all files related to its investigation into late Florida sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
After months of...
11/20/2025 - 12:00am
As America’s aging roads fall further behind on much-needed repairs, cities and states are turning to artificial intelligence to spot the worst hazards and decide which fixes should come first.
Hawaii officials, for example, are giving away 1,000...
Alaska Owns Dozens Of Deteriorating Schools. Now It Wants Under-Resourced Districts To Take Them On.
11/20/2025 - 12:00am
Alaska Owns Dozens of Deteriorating Schools. Now It Wants Under-Resourced Districts to Take Them On.
For more than a decade, the Kuspuk School District asked Alaska’s education department for the money to fix a rotting elementary school. The school...
11/20/2025 - 12:00am
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford Motor Co.’s new headquarters, the carmaker's first central office switch since Dwight Eisenhower was president, is double the size of its old one with room for twice as many employees.
The new HQ has seven restaurants as...
Sudan's military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan (center) is greeted by troops as he arrives at the Republican Palace, recently recaptured from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, in Khartoum, Sudan, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo)
11/20/2025 - 12:00am
Through America suffers her blind, and irreverent children who believe the differences of their disputes are irrecoverable, for the last two and a half years mass-killings have gone on in a civil-war in the nation of Sudan. So savage is this...
11/20/2025 - 12:00am
When local activist Frank Arcoleo found out over the summer that a data center was coming to his neighborhood in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he said he was furious. There’d been no votes or public hearings.
The first phase of the data center project...
People arrive at El Nuevo San Juan Health Center in the Bronx brought of New York, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. When telehealth is not a possibility for patients due to equipment, wi-fi or technology skills, El Nuevo San Juan Health Center tries to bring care to them instead, especially older members of the community. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / AP Photo)
11/19/2025 - 12:00am
Affordable health care was the primary point of contention in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, which hit 43 days on Nov. 12, 2025.
This fight highlights a persistent concern for Americans despite passage of the landmark Affordable...
11/19/2025 - 12:00am
SYRACUSE, Neb. — Life on the Fass farm was a lot different before that final day of the 2021 Otoe County Fair.
Eric Fass was just one year into his role as the town’s volunteer fire chief. He and wife Amanda also had been growing a small farm they...
11/19/2025 - 12:00am
“Who are you, Maggie?”
Maggie Malone Hardin began to answer the therapist’s question.
“I’m a D-1 athlete … I’m actually a Nike athlete and …”
“No,” the therapist interrupted. “Who are you?”
Malone Hardin shifted positions on the large gray couch,...
State Sen. John Cavanaugh of Omaha (center) joins advocates for medical cannabis at the Nebraska State Office Building in Lincoln, Nebraska, ahead of a public hearing on a regulatory system for the new medicine approved by voters in November 2024, Oct. 15, 2025. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
11/18/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA — State Sen. John Cavanaugh picked up two more endorsements from local unions in his bid to be the Democratic nominee in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District.
The two endorsements came from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen...
11/18/2025 - 12:00am
The Trump administration has given corporations plenty of convenient excuses to retreat from their climate commitments, with its moves to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, roll back emissions regulations, and scale back clean energy incentives.
But...
Buses are lined up at the Kansas City Public Schools bus barn in Kansas City, Mo., between morning and afternoon routes. School districts have made some progress in addressing the national shortage of school bus drivers, but there still aren’t as many drivers as there were in 2019. (Kevin Hardy / Stateline)
11/18/2025 - 12:00am
School districts have made some progress in addressing the national shortage of school bus drivers, but there still aren’t as many drivers as there were in 2019, according to a new study.
The number of drivers has increased by 2,300, or 1.1%, since...
Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena tries his hand at one of the railroad's locomotive simulators that are used to train engineers at the company's headquarters in Omaha, Neb., Dec. 15, 2023. Union Pacific has reported steady growth ever since Vena took over the company in 2023. (Josh Funk / AP Photo)
11/18/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Shareholders of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern backed the railroads’ proposed $85 billion merger to create the nation’s first coast-to-coast rail network.
Roughly 99% of both railroads’ shareholders voted to support the...
Matt's booth evolving alongside O Con. (Matt Hebert)
11/18/2025 - 12:00am
I started writing what would become my first novel when I was a junior in high school way back in 2004. I continued to tinker and add to it over the next ten years. Through college, landing my first big boy job, and getting married it would always...
11/18/2025 - 12:00am
There’s a small sign on every table in the dining room at Johnny’s Cafe, Omaha’s oldest and perhaps original steakhouse.
“103 years,” it reads. “Perfectly aged.”
Johnny’s is a Nebraska icon, still owned by the descendants of a Polish immigrant...
