Category: Nebraska State Front Page News

Nebraska’s vulnerable rural populations need better health care data

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In a state that’s 92% farmland, one of the biggest issues we face in our health care system is disparate outcomes for our rural population. Eighty-five  of Nebraska’s rural communities are considered medically underserved areas, and that’s just for primary care services. This is concerning — rural populations are significantly more vulnerable to health inequities and poor, often preventable […]

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Hate groups’ political influence growing, watchdog says

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WASHINGTON — More than 1,200 hate and anti-government extremist groups were active across the United States in 2022, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s latest report on the nationwide prevalence of extremists who target people of color, LGBTQ people, Jewish communities and other religious minorities. While the overall number of hate and anti-government groups […]

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UNL chancellor candidate addresses diversity, equity, inclusion at Tuesday forum

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LINCOLN — Rodney Bennett, the priority candidate for chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is no stranger to controversy related to diversity, equity and inclusion. On Oct. 28, 2015, the former president of the University of Southern Mississippi ordered the state flag to be taken down on USM campuses. At the time, the flag contained the […]

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U.S. House committee approves bills on whole milk, condemns sheltering migrants in schools 

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee on Tuesday passed several bills that are a rebuke of not only the Biden administration’s policies on immigration, child nutrition and health care, but also regulations from the Obama era. The committee passed a resolution that condemns the use of public schools to shelter undocumented people, […]

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Public schools supporters launch drive to put school choice bill on ballot

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LINCOLN — To chants of “sign the petition,” a coalition of public education supporters launched an effort Tuesday to place a referendum before voters on a newly passed school choice law. The group, called “Support Our Schools Nebraska,” is seeking to gather at least 90,000 signatures of registered voters in the next 90 days to […]

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Public schools supporters launch drive to put school choice bill on ballot

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LINCOLN — To chants of “sign the petition,” a coalition of public education supporters launched an effort Tuesday to place a referendum before voters on a newly passed school choice law. The group, called “Support Our Schools Nebraska,” is seeking to gather at least 90,000 signatures of registered voters in the next 90 days to […]

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Nebraska Farm Bureau, FBI partner for Agriculture Threats Symposium

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LINCOLN — The Nebraska Farm Bureau and the FBI’s Omaha Field Office are partnering to encourage farmers and ranchers to be aware of agriculture threats with a rise in technology. At the Nebraska Innovation Campus, part of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, FBI Omaha Special Agent in Charge Gene Kowel said four main threats face the agriculture […]

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Nebraska Farm Bureau, FBI partner for Agriculture Threats Symposium

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LINCOLN — The Nebraska Farm Bureau and the FBI’s Omaha Field Office are partnering to encourage farmers and ranchers to be aware of agriculture threats with a rise in technology. At the Nebraska Innovation Campus, part of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, FBI Omaha Special Agent in Charge Gene Kowel said four main threats face the agriculture […]

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D-Day succeeded thanks to an ingenious design called the Mulberry Harbours

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When Allied troops stormed the beaches at Normandy, France on June 6, 1944 – a bold invasion of Nazi-held territory that helped tip the balance of World War II – they were using a remarkable and entirely untested technology: artificial ports. To stage what was then the largest seaborne assault in history, the American, British […]

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New economic development head a lifelong Nebraskan with quarter-century of promoting rural areas

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LINCOLN — Nebraska’s new top economic developer, K.C. Belitz, said Monday that he’ll be focusing on how to attract people — as much as businesses — to his home state, which has tens of thousands of open jobs. Belitz, a former longtime head of the Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce, said economic developers today must […]

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UNL chancellor candidate previews research, economic development vision for Nebraska

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LINCOLN — During his first few years as an undergraduate student, Rodney Bennett, the now-priority candidate for chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, struggled. As a young student at Middle Tennessee State University, Bennett began studying in the fall of 1984 and received a variety of grades in his first few years, including failing grades in […]

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As Nebraska state senators head home, one heads to the battlefield in Ukraine

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LINCOLN — Nebraska state senators headed home last week after a particularly brutal and bitter 2023 session. But one lawmaker isn’t packing up his office — he has packed his bag for a return trip to the war front in Ukraine. Sen. Tom Brewer of Gordon, a decorated military veteran nearing his 65th birthday, has […]

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Half a million people in less than a dozen states have lost Medicaid coverage since April

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More than 500,000 people across 11 states have lost their Medicaid coverage since the unwinding of a policy that allowed people to stay in the program throughout the pandemic. The data, reported by the states and tracked by health policy researcher KFF, show that of the five states providing data on people who lost Medicaid […]

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Character ‘etching’ a skill to be learned

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Nestled among my summer reading list is getting a good “read” on what I fear is becoming a discredited dinosaur of the past: character in public life — the past in this instance being less than 10 years. To whit: During a recent confirmation hearing in the Nebraska Legislature, a state senator said he considered […]

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GOP candidates compete for Iowans’ support at Sen. Joni Ernst’s ‘Roast and Ride’

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Des Moines — Presidential candidates worked to balance promoting their ability to unify the country while highlighting their fight against the “woke” left while speaking to Iowans gathered Saturday for U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst’s “Roast and Ride” fundraiser at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife, Casey, took their children to […]

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Nebraska City Dance Studio Recital 2023

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The dancers of Nebraska City Dance Studio presented Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, a story of Mary Poppins, on Saturday, June 3, 2023, at Lourdes Central Catholic. ‘Winds in the east, mist comin’ in, like somethin’ is brewing and ’bout to begin.” Mary Poppins is a classic tale that first appeared in 1934 through a series of books. She […]

Nebraska City Dance Studio Recital 2023

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The dancers of Nebraska City Dance Studio presented Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, a story of Mary Poppins, on Saturday, June 3, 2023, at Lourdes Central Catholic. ‘Winds in the east, mist comin’ in, like somethin’ is brewing and ’bout to begin.” Mary Poppins is a classic tale that first appeared in 1934 through a series of books. She […]

Bank purchases half-finished luxury home/acreage of deceased businessman who defrauded banks

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LINCOLN — The partially finished, multimillion-dollar dwelling being built by Lincoln businessman Aaron Marshbanks was sold Friday, the latest effort to recover any assets remaining from what’s been described one of the largest bank frauds in state history. City Bank & Trust of Lincoln, which had loaned Marshbanks $2.5 million to build the 4,800-square-foot home […]

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Experts: Predicting CO2 pipeline rupture threats can be extremely costly

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DES MOINES — A carbon dioxide plume modeling software did not anticipate the threat a pipeline break in 2020 posed to a small Mississippi town, largely because it did not take land topography into account. That break near Satartia, Mississippi, resulted in emergency responders scrambling to save people from a “green gas” and “rotten egg […]

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Experts: Predicting CO2 pipeline rupture threats can be extremely costly

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DES MOINES — A carbon dioxide plume modeling software did not anticipate the threat a pipeline break in 2020 posed to a small Mississippi town, largely because it did not take land topography into account. That break near Satartia, Mississippi, resulted in emergency responders scrambling to save people from a “green gas” and “rotten egg […]

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From the Governor with Gov. Jim Pillen: LB574 protects life and love

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The passage of LB574 marked an historic day for the state of Nebraska. This legislation, which had the support of 33 senators, sent a clear message that Nebraskans are united in providing protections for our children, born and unborn, so they may have brighter and promising future. LB574 contains two important protections for children. The […]

Legislative Update with Julie Slama: Sprint to the Finish

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The Nebraska Legislature is nearing the end of the 108th Legislature, 1st Regular Session. With a ceasefire in the ongoing filibuster, the Legislature is able to both move forward by passing legislation and procedural duties, such as Legislative confirmations! I would like to highlight some of the bills passed either by the Legislature or signed […]