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Nebraska’s First Medical Cannabis Cultivators Offered Licenses As Legal Threats Loom

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 10/10/2025 - 12:00am

A marijuana plant at the Dakota Herb grow operation near Tea, South Dakota.
(John Hult / South Dakota Searchlight)

LINCOLN — The Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission offered the state’s first medical cannabis cultivator licenses Tuesday, nearly a week after the voter-set deadline of Oct. 1.

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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer To Pay For Lifesaving Care. Here’s How To File It.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 10/10/2025 - 12:00am

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.

by Duaa Eldeib

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Conflict At The Drugstore: When Pharmacists’ And Patients’ Values Collide

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 10/10/2025 - 12:00am

(John Nacion / STAR MAX / IPx 2022 6/28/22 via AP Photo)

Imagine walking into your pharmacy, handing over your prescription and having it denied. Now imagine that the reason is not insufficient insurance coverage or the wrong dose, but a pharmacist who personally objects to your medication. What right does a pharmacist have to make moral decisions for their patients?

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Federal Government Shutdown Begins, With No Easy Exit In Sight

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 10/03/2025 - 12:00am

The U.S. Capitol is seen at sunrise as cars drive on Pennsylvania Ave. during rush hour traffic, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, in Washington.
(Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP Photo)

WASHINGTON — The federal government started shutting down early Wednesday after Congress failed to approve a funding bill before the beginning of the new fiscal year — resulting in widespread ramifications for hundreds of programs and giving the Trump administration an avenue to fire federal workers en masse.

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Lessons From An Off-Screen Character

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 10/03/2025 - 12:00am

Amid the recent roiling seas of public murder and on-purpose mayhem came the news that film star Robert Redford had died at 89. As one among millions who enjoyed his movies — whether acting or directing — I have always been especially struck by Redford’s persona … his off-screen character.

Or, more to the point, struck by the contrast between his persona and what we see too much these days on multiple screens.

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Judge Finds The Trump Administration Unconstitutionally Targeted Noncitizens Over Gaza War Protests

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 10/03/2025 - 12:00am

BOSTON (AP) — The Trump administration violated the Constitution when it targeted non-U.S. citizens for deportation solely for supporting Palestinians and criticizing Israel, a federal judged said Tuesday in a scathing ruling directly and sharply criticizing President Donald Trump and his policies as serious threats to free speech.

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Nebraska Gets A Private School Tax Credit — Thanks To Trump

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 10/03/2025 - 12:00am

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen talking in front of U.S. Reps. Adrian Smith and Mike Flood at St. Teresa Catholic School in Lincoln on Sep. 29, 2025.
(Juan Salinas II / Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen and U.S. Reps. Adrian Smith and Mike Flood took a political victory lap Monday with a group of K-12 students at the capital city’s St. Teresa Catholic School.

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‘Not A Way To Live’: AI Is Fueling Violent Threats Against Women Judges

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 10/03/2025 - 12:00am

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Voting Advocacy Group Sues To Block Nebraska From Giving Voter Data To Feds

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 09/26/2025 - 12:00am

LINCOLN — A voting advocacy group has sued to block Nebraska’s secretary of state from sharing voter registration data with the U.S. Department of Justice.

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A Nebraska Inmate Went On His Girlfriend’s Podcast. Then The Prison Cut Off Their Contact.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 09/26/2025 - 12:00am

Montpetit and Ely regularly video chatted in the fall and winter of 2024. Montpetit said he was proposing marriage in the final screenshot.
(Courtesy Julie Montpetit)

Julie Montpetit didn’t see it coming. Not her newfound passion for criminal justice reform, and certainly not her current predicament: blocked from talking to the man she loves, a man locked in prison thousands of miles away.

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