Profiles
Dan Schultz transitioned from a military career as an electronic warfare officer to opening a housecleaning franchise. He embraces his military training in building the franchise. (Tim Trudell / The Daily Record)
Dan Schultz likely could have had his pick of jobs when he retired from the Air Force. Defense-related contractor positions were within his grasp. With two master's degrees, maybe he could have used...
I hate America - hardly. But it wasn’t one person speaking ... It was millions, collectively united as one.
From sea to shining sea and beyond our nation’s shores, people rallied together in rural,...
It is set in stone, unlike the Constitution, our nation’s rule of law, many are valiantly defending to this day.
On Aug. 10, 1875, six attorneys convened at the Douglas County Courthouse to...
With visions of a resurgent neighborhood, supporters of redevelopment in the Saddle Creek see couples strolling through the neighborhood enjoying date nights, families grabbing a bite to eat and...
Writing this article from the perspectives of local, Omaha-Metropolitan mechanics was more difficult than I imagined it being. The idea behind this piece was to provide data on reliable cars (and...
Today’s News
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....
Alaska Owns Dozens Of Deteriorating Schools. Now It Wants Under-Resourced Districts To Take Them On.
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...
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...
Sudan's military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan (center) is greeted by troops as he arrives at the Republican Palace, recently recaptured from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, in Khartoum, Sudan, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo)
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...
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...
This Week's News
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.
Hawaii officials, for example, are giving away 1,000...
Alaska Owns Dozens Of Deteriorating Schools. Now It Wants Under-Resourced Districts To Take Them On.
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...
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...
Sudan's military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan (center) is greeted by troops as he arrives at the Republican Palace, recently recaptured from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, in Khartoum, Sudan, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo)
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...
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...
People arrive at El Nuevo San Juan Health Center in the Bronx brought of New York, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. When telehealth is not a possibility for patients due to equipment, wi-fi or technology skills, El Nuevo San Juan Health Center tries to bring care to them instead, especially older members of the community. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / AP Photo)
11/19/2025 - 12:00am
Affordable health care was the primary point of contention in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, which hit 43 days on Nov. 12, 2025.
This fight highlights a persistent concern for Americans despite passage of the landmark Affordable...
11/19/2025 - 12:00am
SYRACUSE, Neb. — Life on the Fass farm was a lot different before that final day of the 2021 Otoe County Fair.
Eric Fass was just one year into his role as the town’s volunteer fire chief. He and wife Amanda also had been growing a small farm they...
11/19/2025 - 12:00am
“Who are you, Maggie?”
Maggie Malone Hardin began to answer the therapist’s question.
“I’m a D-1 athlete … I’m actually a Nike athlete and …”
“No,” the therapist interrupted. “Who are you?”
Malone Hardin shifted positions on the large gray couch,...
State Sen. John Cavanaugh of Omaha (center) joins advocates for medical cannabis at the Nebraska State Office Building in Lincoln, Nebraska, ahead of a public hearing on a regulatory system for the new medicine approved by voters in November 2024, Oct. 15, 2025. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
11/18/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA — State Sen. John Cavanaugh picked up two more endorsements from local unions in his bid to be the Democratic nominee in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District.
The two endorsements came from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen...
11/18/2025 - 12:00am
The Trump administration has given corporations plenty of convenient excuses to retreat from their climate commitments, with its moves to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, roll back emissions regulations, and scale back clean energy incentives.
But...
Buses are lined up at the Kansas City Public Schools bus barn in Kansas City, Mo., between morning and afternoon routes. School districts have made some progress in addressing the national shortage of school bus drivers, but there still aren’t as many drivers as there were in 2019. (Kevin Hardy / Stateline)
11/18/2025 - 12:00am
School districts have made some progress in addressing the national shortage of school bus drivers, but there still aren’t as many drivers as there were in 2019, according to a new study.
The number of drivers has increased by 2,300, or 1.1%, since...
Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena tries his hand at one of the railroad's locomotive simulators that are used to train engineers at the company's headquarters in Omaha, Neb., Dec. 15, 2023. Union Pacific has reported steady growth ever since Vena took over the company in 2023. (Josh Funk / AP Photo)
11/18/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Shareholders of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern backed the railroads’ proposed $85 billion merger to create the nation’s first coast-to-coast rail network.
Roughly 99% of both railroads’ shareholders voted to support the...
Matt's booth evolving alongside O Con. (Matt Hebert)
11/18/2025 - 12:00am
I started writing what would become my first novel when I was a junior in high school way back in 2004. I continued to tinker and add to it over the next ten years. Through college, landing my first big boy job, and getting married it would always...
11/18/2025 - 12:00am
There’s a small sign on every table in the dining room at Johnny’s Cafe, Omaha’s oldest and perhaps original steakhouse.
“103 years,” it reads. “Perfectly aged.”
Johnny’s is a Nebraska icon, still owned by the descendants of a Polish immigrant...
11/17/2025 - 12:00am
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
When President Donald Trump told reporters on Sept. 5 he’d started looking at sending the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, he said it was because of...
11/17/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein wrote in a 2019 email to a journalist that Donald Trump “knew about the girls,” according to documents made public Wednesday, but what he knew — and whether it pertained to the sex offender’s crimes — is unclear....
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11/17/2025 - 12:00am
Nebraska’s news junkies and even casual information consumers have full plates: the potential resignations of a University of Nebraska regent and a state legislator; a federal immigration detention camp that materialized on an apparent need-to-know...
11/17/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — The longest shutdown in U.S. history ended Wednesday night when President Donald Trump signed a spending package that reopens the government and funds most of it through January.
The Oval Office ceremony came just hours after the House...
Adj. Gen. Craig Strong (at podium) addresses Nebraska National Guard members alongside (from left) Gov. Jim Pillen, State Sens. Loren Lippincott, Rita Sanders and Tom Brewer, and Lt. Gov. Joe Kelly to celebrate Guard recruitment and retention legislation, Dec. 10, 2024. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
11/14/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska was set to lead the way July 1 with a new statewide criminal justice diversion program for eligible veterans through evidence-based treatment and case plans. But lawmakers delayed the rollout for two years in the face of growing...
Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, Oct. 15, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo)
11/14/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the House returns Wednesday for the first time in months, Democrat Adelita Grijalva will be sworn in as its newest member, more than seven weeks after winning a special election in Arizona to fill the seat last held by her late...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference Aug. 12, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (Chris O’Meara / AP Photo)
11/14/2025 - 12:00am
After years of steady decline in the number of people executed in the United States, there has been a sharp reversal in 2025.
So far this year, 41 people have been killed in 11 states, with five more executions scheduled before the end of the year....
11/14/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen appointed Douglas County District Court Judge Derek R. Vaughn on Monday as the next associate justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.
The appointment for the Supreme Court’s Second Judicial District replaces the...
