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Requests Denied: Nebraska Turns Down Records Requests On McCook-ICE Jail

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 10/20/2025 - 12:00am
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen before his press conference at St. Teresa Catholic School in Lincoln on Sept. 29, 2025. (Juan Salinas II / Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — As Nebraska moves forward in converting a McCook state prison into an ICE detention center, concerns grow about the Governor’s Office stonewalling public requests seeking more about what is going on.

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Nebraskans Rip Proposed Regulations On Medical Cannabis At Public Hearing

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 10/20/2025 - 12:00am

LINCOLN — Green shirts filled a hearing room in Lincoln full of Nebraskans who support the legalization of medical cannabis but oppose the regulations of the product proposed by the state’s new Medical Cannabis Commission.

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Trump Confirms The CIA Is Conducting Covert Operations Inside Venezuela

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 10/20/2025 - 12:00am
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro points at a map of the Americas during a press conference in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Sept 15, 2025. (Jesus Vargas / AP Photo)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday that he has authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela and said he was weighing carrying out land operations on the country.

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When Government Websites Become Campaign Tools: Blaming The Shutdown On Democrats Has Legal And Political Risks

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 10/20/2025 - 12:00am

For decades, federal shutdowns have mostly been budget fights. The 2025 one has become bigger than that: It’s turned into a messaging war.

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Volume Of Voting Voices Turned Down

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 10/13/2025 - 12:00am

Nebraskans have spoken. If only some people would have listened.

In November, Nebraska voters said no to Referendum 435, which repealed Legislative Bill 1402, a school voucher measure born in the state Legislature.

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‘This Shutdown Feels Different.’ States Might Not Get Repaid When Government Reopens.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 10/13/2025 - 12:00am
Democratic treasurer Zach Conine addresses reporters at a press conference to outline the priorities of Democrats who control Nevada's state Legislature on Wednesday, May 3, 2023. (Gabe Stern / AP Photo)

States are doing what they generally do during a federal government shutdown: continuing to operate programs serving some of the neediest people.

That means schools are still serving federally subsidized meals and states are distributing funding for the federal food stamp program. For now.

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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 10/13/2025 - 12:00am
Lindsey M. Burke, PhD, Director, Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation. (Courtesy of heritage.org)

Trump’s Education Department Is Working to Erode the Public School System — ProPublica

by Megan O’Matz and Jennifer Smith Richards

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Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been clear about her desire to shut down the agency she runs. She’s laid off half the staff and joked about padlocking the door.

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Former President Joe Biden Heads To Nebraska

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 10/13/2025 - 12:00am

LINCOLN — Former President Joe Biden is coming to Nebraska next month for the Democratic state party’s top annual fundraising event, held this year in Omaha.

It will be one of the few public appearances for Biden since he dropped out of the 2024 presidential election amid concerns from party leaders over his electability following a debate performance against then-former President Donald Trump.

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Two Appropriations Committee Lawmakers Seek Public Briefing On Nebraska-ICE Jail; Chair Declines

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 10/06/2025 - 12:00am
The planned conversion of the McCook-based Work Ethic Camp into an ICE detention center has been lauded by Nebraska’s Republican governor and several GOP state senators, but has created consternation among progressive lawmakers and in its host city. (Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — Two Nebraska lawmakers on the Legislature’s budget-setting committee requested that their panel schedule a public briefing to better understand the planned conversion of a McCook-based state prison into an ICE detention hub.

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You Can Only be Free When–

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 10/06/2025 - 12:00am

“And an orator said, ‘Speak to us of Freedom.’ And he answered: ‘At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom, even as the slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them. Ay, in the grove of the temple and in the shadow of the citadel, I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff–

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