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Where’s The Corn?

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 09/30/2025 - 12:00am

My six year old, Francesca, couldn’t help but feel the contagious energy of total Husker domination the night of September 6th, 2025. Even having to break at the half for bedtime, she had already made a full wardrobe change to an all-red outfit and was excitedly accosting little sister. “33 to zero, Ellie. 33!” Little did she know they would go on to shut out Akron for all four quarters – or that we haven’t been able to celebrate such a feat since long before she was born.

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Amazon To Pay $2.5 Billion To Settle FTC Allegations It Duped Customers Into Enrolling In Prime

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 09/30/2025 - 12:00am

SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon has reached a historic $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which said the online retail giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime memberships and made it difficult for them to cancel after doing so.

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TikTok Sale To US Investors OK’d By Trump In Deal Valued In Billions

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 09/30/2025 - 12:00am

President Donald Trump (from left) speaks while signing an executive order as Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick, Rupert Murdoch and Larry Ellison, chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle Corporation, listen in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington.
(Evan Vucci / AP Photo)

A group of U.S. investors will take over the massive video-sharing platform TikTok, President Donald Trump said Thursday.

Trump signed an executive order certifying a transaction for TikTok complies with a 2024 law requiring the platform’s Chinese parent company, Byte Dance Ltd., divest TikTok or face a ban in the U.S.

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Starbucks To Close Hundreds Of Stores, Lay Off 900 Workers As Part Of Turnaround Plan

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 09/30/2025 - 12:00am

Starbucks said Thursday it's closing hundreds of stores in the U.S., Canada and Europe and laying off 900 nonretail employees as it focuses more of its resources on a turnaround.

The Seattle coffee giant said store closures would start immediately. Starbucks said affected baristas will be offered severance packages and transfers to other locations where possible.

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Steak Town USA: At Cascio’s, Last Of Its Kind, Old-School Italian Recipes Outshine Beef

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 09/23/2025 - 12:00am

An old-school glowing sign marks the location of Cascio’s, in Omaha’s Little Italy neighborhood.
(Joshua Foo / Flatwater Free Press)

You can taste the secret in Cascio’s spaghetti sauce.

A whiff of umami. A hint of spice balanced with a hint of sweet. Hunks of fork-tender meat. The kind of flavor that only comes from slow simmering for eight hours, because that’s how the Cascio family does it — has always done it — with a recipe straight from Carlentini, Sicily.

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What Are We Doing With STEM?

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 09/23/2025 - 12:00am

I sit hunched on my living room floor. Soon I’ll attempt to relieve the shooting pain in my lower back by rolling over onto my stomach like a sea lion sunning on a rock. In front of me sit my two daughters, 3 and 6. Between us lies the colorful, geometric wonderland of Picasso Tiles. The late afternoon sun shines through the assemblies and alights the floor in a kaleidoscope of dazzling rainbows. My daughters work on some impossible maze for their ponies. It has all the appeal of an M.C.

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Former State Senator Remembered For Dogged Advocacy Of Rural Nebraska

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 09/23/2025 - 12:00am

Former Nebraska State Sen. Loran Schmit worked as a lobbyist for ethanol after his time in the Legislature.
(Courtesy of Steven Schmit)

LINCOLN — Former Nebraska State Sen. Loran Schmit is remembered as a dogged advocate for rural Nebraska and the father of the state’s ethanol industry, as well as a legislative leader who was ahead of his time on other issues, including gambling.

Schmit, 96, died Wednesday at his home in Bellwood.

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Jerry Quits Ben & Jerry's, Saying Its Independence On Social Issues Has Been Stifled

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 09/23/2025 - 12:00am

Jerry Greenfield (left) and Bennett Cohen (right), the founders of Ben and Jerry Homemade Inc., pose in front of their "Cowmobile" in Burlington, Vt., on June 15, 1987.
(Toby Talbot / AP Photo)

Ben & Jerry's co-founder Jerry Greenfield is leaving the ice cream brand after 47 years, saying that the independence it once had to speak up on social issues has been stifled by parent company Unilever.

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Nvidia To Invest $5 Billion In Struggling Rival Intel

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 09/23/2025 - 12:00am

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends a media Q&A session during a visit to London on Sept. 17, 2025.
(Kelvin Chan / AP Photo)

Nvidia, the world's leading chipmaker, announced on Thursday that it's investing $5 billion in Intel and will collaborate with the struggling semiconductor company.

Nvidia said it will spend $5 billion to buy Intel common stock at $23.28 a share. The investment, which is subject to regulatory approvals, comes a month after the U.S. government took a 10% stake in Intel.

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The Forget-Me-Not Conference

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 09/16/2025 - 12:00am

To love is one of the greatest joys a human can endure: that bearing the weight of loss only made that time which you were allowed to soar on tender wings like Icarus all the greater. How wonderful after a long day of work, when arriving at your child’s school or daycare, and upon their faces a brightness like a sunbeam shines right at you,

“Mommy!” or "Daddy!" they shout and run into your embrace.

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