Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/27/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — In a blow to the local economy of Lexington, Nebraska, Tyson Foods announced that it is closing the town’s longtime Tyson beef plant that employed about 3,200 people.
The Arkansas-based Tyson said in a statement that changes were designed to “right-size” its beef business and position it for long-term success.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/27/2025 - 12:00am
Like a sleeping giant whose body is hidden just beneath dark waves, the base nature of mankind has been stirring the world over. One of the giant’s hands has come out of the midnight sea to grip the earth to leverage it better to stand. That hand crushes the nation of Ukraine under the hum of soulless drones committing soulless murder.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/27/2025 - 12:00am
When Yvonne and Gregg Poole moved to a property west of Cortland over 20 years ago, they intended to give the old buildings on the land new life. They converted the chicken coop into a guest house. They transformed a grain elevator into a workshop. Once they moved on to the barn, requests started to come in to rent the space, and what started as a passion project became a small business.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/27/2025 - 12:00am
As corporate ownership of residential property across the country rises nationwide, researchers from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Center for Geospatial Solutions, which is housed at the institute, warn this rising trend has complicated the housing market for first-time buyers.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 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 under development there only required administrative approval from a few city officials, based on the building permit application and state laws.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 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 conflict that over twelve million people have been forced to take refuge in other parts of Sudan, and 4 million have fled to other nations to avoid what is only described as wanton violence and total crimes against humanity. (AP News)
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 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 part of a 160,000-square-foot (14,864 square-meter) food hall, office space, design studios and fabrication shops.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 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, in the small and predominantly Indigenous community of Aniak in western Alaska, was in deep need of repairs. The nearby Kuskokwim river had flooded the 88-year-old building several times. The walls were moldy. Sewage was leaking into a space below the school’s kitchen.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 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.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/13/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska’s McCook prison for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees is now operational, with the first migrants having arrived this week, Gov. Jim Pillen confirmed last Thursday.