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Right At Home Impacts International In-Home Senior Care Over 30 Years

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 05/20/2025 - 12:00am

A panel of longtime franchise owners discuss their successes and the challenges facing the in-home senior care industry during Right at Home’s annual conference in Omaha, Nebraska.
(Tim Trudell / The Daily Record)

When Allen Hager developed his concept for providing in-home care for seniors, he had no idea it would become a billion dollar enterprise 30 years later.

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Right At Home Impacts International In-Home Senior Care Over 30 Years

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 05/20/2025 - 12:00am

When Allen Hager developed his concept for providing in-home care for seniors, he had no idea it would become a billion dollar enterprise 30 years later.

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Right At Home Impacts International In-Home Senior Care Over 30 Years

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 05/20/2025 - 12:00am

When Allen Hager developed his concept for providing in-home care for seniors, he had no idea it would become a billion dollar enterprise 30 years later.

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Support Helps Nebraska Area Agencies On Aging Help Others

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 05/20/2025 - 12:00am

Finding ways to support older adults during trying times is not new. In 1965, Congress passed the Older Americans Act to complement the medical role of Medicare and Medicaid.

The challenges faced by older adults were increasingly clear, especially those with limited means. However, even those with means required support.

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Challenges To High-Performance Computing Threaten US Innovation

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 05/20/2025 - 12:00am

The operating system of the High Performance Computing and Storage Complex II (HRSK-II) works during the official opening of the data center of the Lehmann Center (LZR) of the Dresden University of Technology in Dresden, eastern Germany, Wednesday, May 13, 2015.
(Jens Meyer / AP Photo)

High-performance computing, or HPC for short, might sound like something only scientists use in secret labs, but it’s actually one of the most important technologies in the world today. From predicting the weather to finding new medicines and even training artificial intelligence, high-performance computing systems help solve problems that are too hard or too big for regular computers.

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Strike By New Jersey Transit Train Engineers Leaves Some 350,000 Commuters In The Lurch

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 05/20/2025 - 12:00am

Union members from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen form a picket line outside the NJ Transit Headquarters on Friday, May 16, 2025 in Newark, New Jersey.
(Stefan Jeremiah / AP Photo)

Train engineers in New Jersey’s huge commuter rail system went on strike early Friday, leaving its 350,000 daily riders either working from home or seeking other means to transit the state or cross the Hudson River into New York City.

People who normally rely on New Jersey Transit took to buses, cars, taxis and boats for the morning rush hour after trains ground to a halt at a minute past midnight.

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No Proof Of Work Could Mean No Medicaid — And Women Stand To Lose The Most

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Steak Town USA: Buffett’s Fave Steakhouse, Omaha Legend Gorat’s, Is Reinvesting In Its Own Future

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 05/13/2025 - 12:00am

Manager Ashley Blodgett, chef Josh Saligheh and his mother and manager Cathy Saligheh pictured in front of Gorat’s Steakhouse, near 49th and Center streets.
(Joshua Foo / Flatwater Free Press)

If you, like me, haven’t made your way into Gorat’s Steakhouse in years, I have a surprise for you: It’s time to go back.

Gorat’s is good again.

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How Warren Buffett’s Enormous Charitable Gifts Reflect The ‘Inner Scorecard’ That Has Guided Him Up To The Billionaire’s Planned Retirement

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 05/13/2025 - 12:00am

Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Greg Abel (center) checks out the flight simulators offered by one of Berkshires companies, Flight Safety as he toured the exhibit hall Friday, May 3, 2024, in Omaha, Neb. ahead of Saturday's meeting.
(Josh Funk / AP Photo)

Warren Buffett, the 94-year-old billionaire widely known as the “Oracle of Omaha” because of his investment acumen, says he is getting ready to retire as CEO and hand the reins of Berkshire Hathaway to Greg Abel, his 62-year-old designated successor.