Many words have entirely lost their impact. In the same way that Hollywood has desensitized people to death, “journalists" and advertisers have only continued to find words with more ‘oomph’ to catch the doom-scrolling eye. "BREAKING news! Archeologists have found the tomb of King Bigboy The Biggest!” Except that the discovery was eight years ago. “MAGA is in a CIVIL WAR over statements made by Redhat Bobby!” Except it’s not.

LINCOLN — A small-town Nebraska mom grew weary of having to travel to get speech therapy for her daughter. She went back to school to become an expert, opened her own clinic in Hemingford, with its population of less than 800, and developed a smartphone app that helps kids bridge communication gaps.

LINCOLN — The Nebraska Legislature is trying to clean up a new law meant to be tough on foreign adversaries.

State Sen. Eliot Bostar of Lincoln, who authored the Foreign Adversary and Terrorist Agent Registration Act that passed in 2025 with Gov. Jim Pillen’s blessing, offered an amendment to an unrelated bill this year, Legislative Bill 1096, that would tweak a definition to fix the issue.