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Nebraska Lawmakers Seek Legislative Hearing Into Nebraska-ICE Detention Center Plans

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 09/01/2025 - 12:00am
State Sens. from left: John Cavanaugh of Omaha, Machaela Cavanaugh of Omaha, Terrell McKinney of Omaha, Victor Rountree of Bellevue, Danielle Conrad of Lincoln and George Dungan of Lincoln meet off the floor of the Legislature, March 26, 2025. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — Thirteen progressive state lawmakers called on the chair of the Nebraska Legislature’s Judiciary Committee to host a public hearing into a federal-state plan to morph a state prison into an immigration detention center.

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How Trump’s Power Push Echoes Resistance To Fixing Education’s Deepest Problems

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 08/25/2025 - 12:00am

How Trump’s Power Push Echoes Resistance to Fixing Education’s Deepest Problems

Kogan: Schools' dysfunction is hard-wired into a governance model that puts adults' political agendas ahead of students' educational interests.

By Vladimir Kogan

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RFK Jr. Vowed To Find The Environmental Causes Of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying To Do Just That.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 08/25/2025 - 12:00am
Erin McCanlies spent almost two decades at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals affects the chance that they will have a child with autism. This spring, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated her entire division. (Nate Smallwood / ProPublica)

RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.

by Sharon Lerner

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The Orwellian Echoes In Trump’s Push For ‘Americanism’ At The Smithsonian

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 08/25/2025 - 12:00am
A supporter of Badar Khan Suri holds a sign saying "It's the 1984 George Orwell Warned Us About!," while attending a rally in opposition to the Georgetown University scholar's arrest and detention, outside of the courthouse, at the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, in Alexandria, Va., Thursday, May 1, 2025. (Jacquelyn Martin / AP Photo)

When people use the term “Orwellian,” it’s not a good sign.

It usually characterizes an action, an individual or a society that is suppressing freedom, particularly the freedom of expression. It can also describe something perverted by tyrannical power.

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Nebraska’s ICE Facility ‘Symbolic’ Of State’s Support For Immigration Enforcement Push

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 08/25/2025 - 12:00am
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen meets with troops at the southern border in Texas. (Courtesy of the Governor’s Office)

LINCOLN — The media spectacle of Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen unveiling plans for a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in the southwestern part of the state follows a political playbook from the Trump administration.

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How Trump’s Power Push Echoes Resistance To Fixing Education’s Deepest Problems

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 08/25/2025 - 12:00am

How Trump’s Power Push Echoes Resistance to Fixing Education’s Deepest Problems

Kogan: Schools' dysfunction is hard-wired into a governance model that puts adults' political agendas ahead of students' educational interests.

By Vladimir Kogan

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Work Begins To Review How Nebraska Funds Its 245 K-12 School Districts, With Possible Tweaks

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 08/18/2025 - 12:00am
From left: Superintendent Aaron Plas of Bennington Public Schools, State Sen. Eliot Bostar of Lincoln, former State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan of the Elkhorn area, Superintendent John Schwartz of Millard Public Schools and Lakeview Community School Board President Keith Runge meet during the inaugural meeting of the Nebraska School Financing Review Commission on Aug. 12, 2025. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — A new state commission charged with reviewing and suggesting updates to how Nebraska funds its public K-12 schools kicked off its first meeting Monday largely with a consensus that the state should dole out more aid to local schools.

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From Tissues To Tariffs: The School Supply Debate Just Got Political

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 08/18/2025 - 12:00am
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Exactly What Is In The Ivy League Deals With The Trump Administration – And How They Compare

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 08/18/2025 - 12:00am

The Trump administration and Harvard University are reportedly close to reaching a settlement that would require Harvard to pay US$500 million in exchange for the government releasing frozen federal funding and ending an investigation into antisemitism on campus.

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Nebraska Might Join National ‘Wildfire’ Of Mid-Decade Redistricting

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 08/11/2025 - 12:00am
Beto O'Rourke, Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate, addresses supporters at a campaign stop in Dallas, Nov. 8, 2022. (Tony Gutierrez / AP Photo)

LINCOLN — Nebraska could join the national mid-decade redistricting fight that Texas and President Donald Trump started.

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