Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 07/25/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA — Two political matchups in Nebraska will likely get national attention as both could help determine which party controls what parts of Congress after the 2026 midterm elections.
One is the U.S. House race in Nebraska’s Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District. The seat is typically a target of both national parties, as one of the rare remaining swing districts that has stayed politically split.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 07/25/2025 - 12:00am
It is so that the political divide in the United States between conservative and liberal is quite… no, not quite, but, “exceptionally” toxic. I won’t kid you and say the conservatives have been doing everything right recently; quite the opposite, at least in regard to the Big Beautiful Bill, in which Republican Senators blocked extending Senator Markay’s amendment, which would extend funding for Alzheimer's research.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 07/25/2025 - 12:00am
Across the country, state and local crime labs are drowning in evidence.
From rape kits to drug samples to vials of blood, delays in forensic testing are stalling prosecutions, stretching court calendars and forcing impossible choices about what gets tested — and what doesn’t.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 07/25/2025 - 12:00am
The Trump administration on Monday released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 07/25/2025 - 12:00am
The Trump administration on Monday released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 07/25/2025 - 12:00am
The Trump administration on Monday released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 07/25/2025 - 12:00am
The Trump administration on Monday released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 07/18/2025 - 12:00am
MACY, Nebraska — The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska became the first government in Nebraska on Tuesday to fully legalize and seek to regulate both medicinal and adult recreational-use cannabis.