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Political Calculus Aside, Listen To Petitioners

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/01/2024 - 5:00am

Even though speech, religion, press and assembly usually claim top billing on the First Amendment marquee, the right to petition, to ask for a “redress of grievances,” must remain undiminished.

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Oklahoma Towns Hard Hit By Tornadoes Begin Long Cleanup After 4 Killed In Weekend Storms

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/01/2024 - 4:00am

This image taken from video provided by KOCO shows damage caused by a tornado in Sulphur, Okla., Sunday, April 28, 2024.
(KOCO via AP)

SULPHUR, Okla. (AP) — Small towns in Oklahoma began a long cleanup Monday after tornadoes flattened homes and buildings and killed four people, including an infant, widening a destructive outbreak of severe weather across the middle of the U.S.

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Children Of Flint Water Crisis Make Change As Young Environmental And Health Activists

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 04/24/2024 - 12:06am

Mural in downtown Flint, Michigan.
(Carlos Osorio / AP Photo)

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Their childhood memories are still vivid: warnings against drinking or cooking with tap water, enduring long lines for cases of water, washing from buckets filled with heated, bottled water. And for some, stomach aches, skin rashes and hair loss.

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Victories Differ From Problem Solving

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 04/24/2024 - 12:05am

As the Nebraska Legislature put another session in the books last week, my thoughts went to U.S. Sen. George Norris of Nebraska, the fiercely independent progressive Republican and progenitor of the state’s Unicameral. Norris was one of eight subjects in the Pulitzer Prize winning book “Profiles in Courage.”

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‘Reveal’ Planned Of Contents Found In Monument At Neihardt Spring Conference

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 04/24/2024 - 12:04am

Descendants of John Neihardt in October fulfilled the wishes of the poet/author to open up a time capsule buried inside this monument 100 years after it was built.
(Coralie Hughes / Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — We’ll soon know whether some documents buried inside a concrete monument erected by poet/author John Neihardt 100 years ago survived three floods and decades of harsh winters on the plains of northwest South Dakota.

On April 27, the contents of a time capsule embedded inside the monument will be revealed as part of the annual spring conference of the John Neihardt Foundation at Wayne State College.

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Advocates Plan ‘Boots On The Ground’ Efforts To Reach Nebraskans Affected By New Felon Voting Law

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 04/24/2024 - 12:03am

LINCOLN — Roughly 7,000 Nebraskans today can directly benefit from a newly passed state law that eliminates a two-year waiting period and immediately restores voting rights to felons upon completion of their sentence, advocates of the law said Friday.

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The Big Catch and the Effect of Stocking America’s Waterways

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 04/17/2024 - 12:06am

There are reportedly 54.2 million anglers in the United States, according to a 2023 study by the American Sportfishing Association.

This time of year, all over the country, fishermen and fisherwomen head out to their favorite fishing holes in search of “The Big One.”

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Conservation Is The Future For Nebraska Farmers

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 04/17/2024 - 12:05am

In the 1930s in Nebraska, after an extended drought, great clouds of dust picked up and blew away the very topsoil that this state – and the entire Midwest – depends on to support farms, families and this nation.

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I Spent A Decade Helping Afghan Girls Make Educational Progress − And Now The Taliban Are Using These 3 Reasons To Keep Them Out Of School

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 04/17/2024 - 12:04am

Before the collapse of the Afghan government in August 2021, girls’ access to education was steadily improving.

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Teaching Refugee Women To Drive Goes Farther Than Their Destination

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 04/17/2024 - 12:03am

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — In a large, empty parking lot outside Atlanta, one car slowly careened around parking spaces. From the passenger seat, driving instructor Nancy Gobran peered over large sunglasses at her student, a 30-year-old Syrian refugee woman who was driving for one of the first times in her life.