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5 Things to Know As State Lawmakers Begin New Session

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 01/10/2022 - 4:00am

Nebraska lawmakers kicked off their 2022 session with several big questions to answer, including whether to build a new $230 million prison and how they’ll spend more than $1 billion in federal pandemic money.

The 60-day short session that began last Wednesday will have plenty of contentious issues for lawmakers to address.

Nebraska Denies Emergency Assistance to 90% of Families

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 01/10/2022 - 3:00am

Nebraska and other states are hoarding more than $5 billion intended for struggling families, according to new analysis.

In 2019, for every 100 Nebraska families living in poverty, only 17 were getting cash assistance through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.

Man Whose Arrest Led to ‘Separate But Equal’ Is Pardoned

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 01/10/2022 - 2:00am

Louisiana’s governor has posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 led to the Supreme Court ruling that cemented “separate but equal” into U.S. law for half a century.

Pottawattamie County Buys Mt. Crescent Ski Area for $3.5M

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 01/10/2022 - 1:00am

A 60-year-old ski and sledding attraction in western Iowa has been sold to Pottawattamie County for $3.5 million.

The county’s purchase of Mt. Crescent Ski Area, which sits adjacent to Hitchcock Nature Center, was finalized on Dec. 30, the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil reported last Wednesday.

Bill Introductions Begin Along With New Session

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 01/10/2022 - 12:00am

Senators returned to the state Capitol last Wednesday to begin the second session of the 107th Nebraska Legislature.

New bills will be introduced for the first 10 days of the session, or until Jan. 20. General and select file debate on bills carried over from 2021 will begin today. Committee hearings are scheduled to begin Jan. 18 and continue through early March.

Omaha Police, Fire To Require Masking

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 01/10/2022 - 12:00am

Omaha police and fire officials said last Wednesday that officers and firefighters will now be required to wear masks on the job after a virus outbreak in their departments. Thirty-nine Omaha fire employees and 35 Omaha police employees were off work after testing positive for the coronavirus.

Feds Want Check For Bomber To Go To Victims Instead

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 01/10/2022 - 12:00am

Federal prosecutors want convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to use a $1,400 COVID-19 stimulus payment he received as well as other money held in his inmate trust account to help pay the millions of dollars he was ordered to pay his victims.

Americans Do Not Remember Capitol Assault as One People

Published by Scott Stewart on Sat, 01/08/2022 - 5:00am

Side by side at ground zero on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a Republican governor read from the Gettysburg Address and a Democratic governor read from the Declaration of Independence as Americans everywhere mourned and remembered as one people.

On Thursday, in contrast, the anniversary of the assault on the U.S. Capitol exposed a nation of two peoples.

Trump Maintains Grip on GOP Despite Violent Insurrection

Published by Scott Stewart on Sat, 01/08/2022 - 4:00am

As a raging band of his supporters scaled walls, smashed windows, used flagpoles to beat police and breached the U.S. Capitol in a bid to overturn a free and fair election, Donald Trump’s excommunication from the Republican Party seemed a near certainty, his name tarnished beyond repair.

Biden Warns of Peril From Trump’s ‘Dagger’ at Democracy

Published by Scott Stewart on Sat, 01/08/2022 - 3:00am

President Joe Biden forcefully blamed Donald Trump and his supporters Thursday for holding a “dagger at the throat of democracy” with election lies that sparked last year’s deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol, using the anniversary of the attack to warn that America’s system of government remains under urgent threat.

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