Profiles
A new survey by CommercialCafe — an information hub for CRE news and reports — lists Omaha as 12th in the Midwest for tech development. Their study, ranking the 20 best cities across the entire...
McKinley W. Wilson
Ms. Wilson was admitted to the Nebraska Bar in 2023. Wilson graduated from Creighton University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Accounting, cum laude in 2019. She graduated...
Astute Coffee is a social enterprise nonprofit that helps young people who have aged out of the foster care system, giving them steady employment to help them develop job skills as well as life...
In March of 2022 nine-term Nebraska Senator Jeff Fortenberry was found guilty of three felony counts for making false statements to the FBI and concealing information about his campaign donations....
As the CRE Summit focuses on Charting the Course: Navigating a Higher Interest Rate Environment, they endeavored to throw those in the community a life-preserver to help them survive this volatile...
Today’s News
Remote workers lack the same institutional cyber protection as their in-office colleagues. (Shutterstock)
Workers who telecommute tend to be more aware of cybersecurity threats than those who spend most of their time in a physical office and are more likely to take action to ward them off, according to...
(Alex Brandon / AP Photo)
Complaints about student debt relief scams are increasing as the date approaches for borrowers to restart payment on their student loans after more than a three-year pause.
Consumer protection...
Republican women are less likely than Americans overall to think there are too few women in elected office. But they’re way more likely to think so than men in their party, a survey finds. (Josie Charron / The Daily Record)
Republican women are twice as likely as Republican men to say there are too few women in high-profile political offices, and they are less certain about the prospect of achieving equal representation...
The ax cut through the thick rope, sending 38 Santee Dakota men to their deaths. The largest mass execution in American history happened in freezing temperatures on Dec. 26, 1862, before hundreds of...
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Of all the debate over teaching U.S. slavery, it is one sentence of Florida’s revised academic standards that has provoked particular ire: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in...
This Week's News
Remote workers lack the same institutional cyber protection as their in-office colleagues. (Shutterstock)
10/03/2023 - 4:00am
Workers who telecommute tend to be more aware of cybersecurity threats than those who spend most of their time in a physical office and are more likely to take action to ward them off, according to our new peer-reviewed study.
Our findings are...
(Alex Brandon / AP Photo)
10/03/2023 - 3:00am
Complaints about student debt relief scams are increasing as the date approaches for borrowers to restart payment on their student loans after more than a three-year pause.
Consumer protection advocates say that the Biden administration’s student...
Republican women are less likely than Americans overall to think there are too few women in elected office. But they’re way more likely to think so than men in their party, a survey finds. (Josie Charron / The Daily Record)
10/02/2023 - 5:00am
Republican women are twice as likely as Republican men to say there are too few women in high-profile political offices, and they are less certain about the prospect of achieving equal representation than men of both parties, a new survey from the...
10/02/2023 - 4:00am
The ax cut through the thick rope, sending 38 Santee Dakota men to their deaths. The largest mass execution in American history happened in freezing temperatures on Dec. 26, 1862, before hundreds of residents in Mankato, Minnesota.
Thrown into a...
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10/02/2023 - 3:00am
Of all the debate over teaching U.S. slavery, it is one sentence of Florida’s revised academic standards that has provoked particular ire: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their...
The Sigma Chi house, pictured above, belongs to a University of Nebraska-Lincoln fraternity that was plagued by charges of hazing and underage drinking. In September of 2009, after multiple lawsuits against them were filed, the Sigma Chi fraternity chapter received some of the toughest sanctions ever imposed on a Greek organization on University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s campus. Members were no longer allowed to be recognized as an official Greek organization, hold activities or events, nor live in the house – located at 1510 Vine St. – until 2014. In more recent years, a freshman student committed suicide citing to others that fraternity hazing pushed him to the decision. The student’s family filed suit in 2019 against Lambda Phi Epsilon following the 18-year-old’s death. Nearly every state now has an anti-hazing law, including Nebraska, but enforcement and penalties vary widely. (Kristin Streff / Lincoln Journal Star via AP)
09/29/2023 - 5:00am
Max Gruver spent the early morning hours of Sept. 14, 2017, heavily intoxicated and passed out on a couch inside the Phi Delta Theta chapter house at Louisiana State University.
He had been forced to repeatedly chug 190-proof Diesel liquor in a...
Marijuana plants for the adult recreational market are seen in a greenhouse at Hepworth Farms in Milton, N.Y., Friday, July 15, 2022. (Mary Altaffer / AP Photo)
09/29/2023 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — A trio of state senators renewed their call Tuesday for the State Board of Pardons to adopt a “streamlined” process for people to be forgiven for minor marijuana convictions that do not involve violence.
In a letter, State Sens. Danielle...
09/29/2023 - 3:00am
September is Suicide Prevention Month, and the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) office works to mitigate suicide risks on campus by providing supports and resources for students. According to a new...
A woman sits on a curb with her belongings and her pets after being evicted from her St. Louis home in September 2021. Several states are debating tenants’ rights, and advocates say the conversation has shifted since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some states pass renter protections, while others scale them back. (Jeff Roberson / AP Photo)
09/28/2023 - 5:00am
At 90 years old, Hilda Chavera has found a new purpose in life: tenant organizing.
A Minneapolis resident for 50 years, Chavera said she has seen her city change, with many of her neighbors struggling to stay in their homes.
“People can’t afford...
A couple walks together in Downtown Omaha. Since the pandemic, traditional downtowns across the country have seen a decline in activity. (David Schildman / The Daily Record)
09/28/2023 - 4:00am
The hollowing out of U.S. cities’ office and commercial cores is a national trend with serious consequences for millions of Americans. As more people have stayed home following the COVID-19 pandemic, foot traffic has fallen. Major retail chains are...
(AP Photo)
09/28/2023 - 3:00am
Skilled trades employers posted over 200,000 job openings in April 2023.
A report from PeopleReady Skilled Trades, a job placement company, explains that postings for skilled labor far outpace the supply of qualified workers to fill them....
Orange-colored butterfly milkweed and other flowering plants grow wild among the grasses at the Henry Dieken Prairie near Unadilla, Neb. You may be surprised by what’s growing on a familiar trail. (Kristin Streff / The Journal-Star via AP)
09/27/2023 - 5:00am
When you hear about the abundance of life on Earth, what do you picture? For many people, it’s animals – but awareness of plant diversity is growing rapidly.
Our planet has nearly 300,000 species of flowering plants. Among animals, only beetles can...
The Hawaii National Guard checks on a car passing the checkpoint on Kaniau Street on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. Kaniau Street of Zone 1C is the first zone to be cleared for re-entry. (Mengshin Lin / AP Photo)
09/27/2023 - 4:00am
LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Some Lahaina residents returned to their devastated properties Monday for the first time since the Hawaii town was destroyed by wildfire nearly seven weeks ago.
Authorities allowed residents into the first area to be cleared...
A concrete pillar in a remote corner of South Dakota honors Hugh Glass, a frontier mountain man who crawled, limped and paddled 200 miles after being mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead. (Wikimedia Commons)
09/27/2023 - 3:00am
LINCOLN — After gaining federal permission, the family of a famed poet/author plans to trek to a remote corner of South Dakota in October to retrieve a century-old monument dedicated to a heroic mountain man.
The goal is to finally unlock a mystery...
The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, with the U.S. Capitol in the distance, Nov. 4, 2020. It’s hard to imagine a less contentious or more innocent word than “and.” But how to interpret the simple conjunction has prompted a complicated legal fight that lands in the Supreme Court on the first day of its new term next week. What the justices decide could affect thousands of prison sentences each year. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo)
09/27/2023 - 1:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's hard to imagine a less contentious or more innocent word than "and."
But how to interpret that simple conjunction has prompted a complicated legal fight that lands in the Supreme Court on Oct. 2, the first day of its new term...
