Profiles
There is perhaps nothing harder on Earth, than to lose a loved one, whether it’s quick and sudden or a prolonged illness – be it a favorite grandparent or someone still in the prime of their life....
Sherry Kolli, a registered nurse, healing-touch practitioner, co-founder of Peaceful Hearts Hospice and board member of Holistic Hearts Foundation. (Courtesy Photo)
There is no cure, the best we can do is offer palliative care to ease the discomfort. For anyone who has ever heard these dreaded words, know their world is about to crumble.
But there are people and...
She emigrated from Russia to Minnesota, fresh after graduating college, with scant money to her name – to no doubt achieve the American dream.
At that point, a law career wasn’t even visible on the...
Former Husker football coach Tom Osborne (center), speaks at a February 2023 event with Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (just behind Osborne), at which Pillen designated the month as “Nebraska Mentoring Month.” (Courtesy of Nebraska Governor’s Office)
LINCOLN — The full Nebraska Legislature is set to weigh whether to make an exception in state law to add former Husker football coach and former U.S. Rep. Tom Osborne to the Nebraska Hall of Fame as...
Though my email address is at the bottom of each of the articles that I have written, the only people to ever send me replies are restaurants looking to get reviewed by me, while strangely I have yet...
Today’s News
Transportation Lobbyists Have Donated Thousands to Sean Duffy’s Son-in-Law as He Runs for Congress
The $16 billion Hudson Tunnel Project, under construction between Manhattan and New Jersey, will...
Chris Backermeyer is running as a Democratic candidate in eastern Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District. (Courtesy of the Backemeyer Campaign)
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the escalating war in Iran, the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs would ordinarily be at the center of the geopolitical fray.
The bureau’s role would be to...
Sister Mary Johnice, the seventh grade teacher at Holy Trinity School in Bay City, Mich., runs with the track team she coaches, April 27, 1966, as she sets up a practice pace for her team. (AP Photo)
I am the product of a Catholic School education with a little bit of a Public School experience thrown in. I went to Benson when we moved to Omaha my junior year of High School. Prior to that, I...
Republican Nebraska Senator Pete Ricketts is up for re-election this year against Independent Dan Osborn. (Courtesy of Pete Ricketts Campaign)
OMAHA — The U.S. Senate appears poised to puff from the long-held public disclosure pipe dream of greater financial accountability for congressional stock trading.
U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., on...
More than 100 state employees rallied during a noon hour in early December against Gov. Jim Pillen’s order to end remote work, Dec. 7, 2023. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
LINCOLN — Lawmakers moved a step closer Tuesday to providing six weeks of paid maternity leave to all female Nebraska state employees after they give birth or adopt a child.
Nearly all female state...
This Week's News
03/23/2026 - 12:00am
Transportation Lobbyists Have Donated Thousands to Sean Duffy’s Son-in-Law as He Runs for Congress
The $16 billion Hudson Tunnel Project, under construction between Manhattan and New Jersey, will improve passenger rail service, an important issue...
Chris Backermeyer is running as a Democratic candidate in eastern Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District. (Courtesy of the Backemeyer Campaign)
03/23/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the escalating war in Iran, the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs would ordinarily be at the center of the geopolitical fray.
The bureau’s role would be to coordinate U.S. foreign policy across an 18-country...
Republican Nebraska Senator Pete Ricketts is up for re-election this year against Independent Dan Osborn. (Courtesy of Pete Ricketts Campaign)
03/23/2026 - 12:00am
OMAHA — The U.S. Senate appears poised to puff from the long-held public disclosure pipe dream of greater financial accountability for congressional stock trading.
U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., on Wednesday proposed the Senate companion to a...
More than 100 state employees rallied during a noon hour in early December against Gov. Jim Pillen’s order to end remote work, Dec. 7, 2023. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
03/20/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Lawmakers moved a step closer Tuesday to providing six weeks of paid maternity leave to all female Nebraska state employees after they give birth or adopt a child.
Nearly all female state employees are already offered six weeks of paid...
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. (Mark Schiefelbein / AP Photo)
03/20/2026 - 12:00am
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This week, the Senate will take up the SAVE America Act, the second version of an extensive elections...
A military transport and surveillance vehicle is parked in a newly designated national defense area on June 11, 2025, along the southern U.S. border in El Paso, Texas. (Morgan Lee / AP Photo)
03/20/2026 - 12:00am
The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law
Jose Omar Flores-Penaloza was willing to admit that he had entered the United States illegally. He was ready to be deported...
03/20/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska lawmakers voted against proposed salary increases for the state’s top constitutional officers Tuesday, with most of those officials coming out against the proposal.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, one of the people who would get a raise...
Federal immigration agents allow an arrested man to talk to his wife on the phone in Robbinsdale, Minn., in February. Recent immigration operations have resulted in some households losing a provider and renters facing eviction. (Nicole Neri / Minnesota Reformer)
03/19/2026 - 12:00am
As federal immigration officers made more “at-large” arrests in communities across the country in the first year of the current Trump administration — including at homes, places of worship and workplaces — more than 1,100 Nebraska families developed...
03/19/2026 - 12:00am
NEBRASKA CITY, Nebraska – After nearly a decade of neglect and finger pointing, peace and plans for a positive future are breaking out at one of Nebraska’s leading historical attractions.
Mayhew Cabin and John Brown’s Cave has been closed since 2019...
The bronze statue of Spartan King Leonidas is seen Tuesday March 20 2007 in Thermopylae, which lies about 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Athens, marking the site where according to legend 300 Spartans held off hundreds of thousands of invading Persians in 480 BC. (Petros Giannakouris / AP Photo)
03/19/2026 - 12:00am
If the members of a society are fully ‘good’, then there is no need for law.
It is a simple, if humanly unobtainable premise; however, unreachable, it will serve as general groundwork for this essay, which is to say in part that eventually all (...
03/19/2026 - 12:00am
A cool morning breeze floated through the serene, green middle of the Highlander development in the heart of North Omaha, and on that breeze wafted the gentle exhortations of a yoga teacher.
“Inhale, breathe in,” the teacher, Lindsay Decker, urged...
Bob Kukuk, who has been homeless for about 10 days, walks with his dog Mickey after getting ice and water, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Kukuk keeps Mickey wrapped in a cold wet towel and periodically rubs him with ice. (Mike Simons / Tulsa World via AP)
03/18/2026 - 12:00am
When homeless shelters allow people to stay with their dogs and other pets, more unhoused people become more willing to stay in a shelter.
That’s what my team at the University of Southern California’s Homelessness Policy Research Institute learned...
Jenilee Woltman of Hemingford, Nebraska, founded Sand Canyon Therapy and was recognized by the Nebraska Business Development Center’s Innovation Business of the Year award. (Courtesy of NBDC)
03/17/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — A small-town Nebraska mom grew weary of having to travel to get speech therapy for her daughter. She went back to school to become an expert, opened her own clinic in Hemingford, with its population of less than 800, and developed a...
03/17/2026 - 12:00am
ABBEVILLE, La. (AP) — Jacob Sagrera unrolls an alligator skin and lays it flat on a metal table, brushing off flecks of salt. He holds it up to the light, looking for blemishes, and gives it a score. That score will help a tannery an ocean away...
03/17/2026 - 12:00am
Fouad Mhadji Issa looks to his adopted home of Nebraska when searching for a comparison to describe the role of vanilla in his home country of Comoros.
“Vanilla is farmed widely in Comoros,” he says, “like corn is in Nebraska.”
The marriage of those...
