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$200M Development With Health Care, Housing, Retail To Rise Between Nebraska’s Two Biggest Cities

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 06/26/2025 - 12:00am

A Nebraska Medicine facility, to open in 2027, is described as the centerpiece of a planned 31-acre campus that will also include an estimated 300 dwellings, retail and a big green space for events in the larger Gretna Landing subdivision.
(Courtesy of Noddle Companies)

GRETNA, Nebraska — An estimated $200 million development featuring a Nebraska Medicine health center along with planned housing, office, retail and entertainment space will rise to help meet demands of a growing community between Nebraska’s two biggest cities.

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It’s Time to Reject Chronic Absenteeism as the New Normal in Student Attendance

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It’s Time to Reject Chronic Absenteeism as the New Normal in Student Attendance

Cohen: Start by improving data, so it's clear who is missing school, and putting an end to messaging that implies skipping class isn't a big deal

By Liz Cohen

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Parched Projects: Nebraska’s Water Systems Need Fixing. The Fund Meant To Help Can’t Keep Up.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 06/26/2025 - 12:00am

Annette Brower, Kimball city administrator, takes a call while at the Kimball Municipal Wastewater Treatment plant in Kimball, Nebraska.
(Irene North / Flatwater Free Press)

In the Nebraska Panhandle, less than half an hour’s drive from both Wyoming and Colorado, the City of Kimball is trying to grow. Recent investments from major local employers and the planned Air Force upgrade of missiles in nearby nuclear missile silos are expected to create new jobs — a city engineering report estimates that “the High Point of Nebraska” soon could double in size.

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To Spur The Construction Of Affordable, Resilient Homes, The Future Is Concrete

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 06/26/2025 - 12:00am

Marthie Jane Wills, known as Blind Mattie, poses with her dogs and her sow outside her log cabin in Mullens, West Virginia, July 16, 1951.
(AP Photo)

Wood is, by far, the most common material used in the U.S. for single-family home construction.

But wood construction isn’t engineered for long-term durability, and it often underperforms, particularly in the face of increasingly common extreme weather events.

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London's Secret Tunnels That Helped Inspire James Bond Will Open To The Public, Complete With A Bar

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 06/26/2025 - 12:00am

LONDON (AP) — There is a history-rich part of London that few people have seen, where the city braced for the Blitz, James Bond’s creator got inspiration and secret Cold War messages passed between Washington and Moscow.

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Honoring Doc Susan: First Native Hospital, Built By Nation’s First Native Doctor, To Again Care For Nebraskans

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 06/19/2025 - 12:00am

A Nebraska state historical marker acknowledging the former hospital, which will soon reopen as the Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte Center in Walthill. Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte was America's first Native American doctor, who then came back to Nebraska and became the sprawling Omaha Reservation’s first medical doctor. She built this hospital, the first of its kind in America.
(Jerry L Mennenga / Flatwater Free Press)

The ask was simple.

Will you donate $132 to honor your fellow physician, Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte? The Nebraska Medical Association put the word out to its members in 2021.

Who’s that? Nebraska doctors asked. After they learned her story, $600,000 in donations poured in.

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Correctional Services Says New Nebraska Prison Bids Would Stay Within Proposed Budget

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 06/19/2025 - 12:00am

An exterior rendering of the new proposed state prison near Lincoln.
(Courtesy of Nebraska Department of Correctional Services)

LINCOLN — The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services on Monday named the three construction companies bidding to construct a new state prison close to Lincoln, all of which officials said would stay within proposed state appropriations.

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Energy Star, On The Trump Administration’s Target List, Has A Long History Of Helping Consumers’ Wallets And The Planet

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 06/19/2025 - 12:00am

Since the early 1990s, the small blue Energy Star label has appeared on millions of household appliances, electronics and even buildings across the United States. But as the Trump administration considers terminating some or all of the program, it is worth a look at what exactly this government-backed label means, and why it has become one of the most recognizable environmental certifications in the country.

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Big Demand For Affordable Housing Calls For Big Approach In Suburban Nebraska

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 06/12/2025 - 12:00am

Hoppe Development’s Tallgrass mixed-income housing site, 35 acres in Papillion, will feature a mix of housing types targeting residents paying market rates and others who qualify for some of the affordable housing by making 60% or less of the area median income.
(Courtesy of DAA, FoleyShald)

PAPILLION, Nebraska — Nebraska’s big demand for affordable housing calls for big ideas, and the new Tallgrass housing project in Sarpy County is one developer’s novel approach to helping fill that tall order.

Lincoln-based Hoppe Development started out with a blank 35-acre canvas on which it plans to grow an entire mixed-income neighborhood inside a more massive 440-acre multi-use development.

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Nebraska Needs A Nuclear Energy Strategy

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 06/12/2025 - 12:00am

In February 2021, thousands of Nebraskans found themselves in the dark of rolling blackouts. A brutal polar vortex froze wind turbines, strained natural gas supplies and exposed serious weaknesses in our energy grid. However, even as multiple power sources failed, one remained steadfast — nuclear energy.

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Real Estate News

$200M Development With Health Care, Housing, Retail To Rise Between Nebraska’s Two Biggest Cities

It’s Time to Reject Chronic Absenteeism as the New Normal in Student Attendance

It’s Time to Reject Chronic Absenteeism as the New Normal in Student Attendance

Cohen: Start by improving data, so it's clear who is missing school, and putting an end to messaging that implies skipping class isn't a big deal

Parched Projects: Nebraska’s Water Systems Need Fixing. The Fund Meant To Help Can’t Keep Up.

To Spur The Construction Of Affordable, Resilient Homes, The Future Is Concrete

London's Secret Tunnels That Helped Inspire James Bond Will Open To The Public, Complete With A Bar

Honoring Doc Susan: First Native Hospital, Built By Nation’s First Native Doctor, To Again Care For Nebraskans

Correctional Services Says New Nebraska Prison Bids Would Stay Within Proposed Budget

Energy Star, On The Trump Administration’s Target List, Has A Long History Of Helping Consumers’ Wallets And The Planet

Big Demand For Affordable Housing Calls For Big Approach In Suburban Nebraska

Nebraska Needs A Nuclear Energy Strategy

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