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Nebraska Lawmaker Who Championed Good Life Districts Law Criticizes Rollout

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 01/09/2025 - 5:00am

A vision of the Gretna good life district proposed by businessman Rod Yates. Boundaries would include and surround Nebraska Crossing mall centered at Interstate 80 and Highway 31. In the background are residential towers that could rise at the site along with a billion-dollar youth sports complex.
(Courtesy of Nebraska Crossing)

GRETNA, Nebraska — When State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan proposed legislation to create good life districts two years ago, she envisioned the result would be a Nebraska tourist magnet akin to Kansas City’s Legends retail complex or Minnesota’s Mall of America.

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'Dinosaur Highway' Tracks Dating Back 166 Million Years Are Discovered In England

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 01/09/2025 - 4:00am

Students from University of Birmingham work on five extensive trackways that formed part of a “dinosaur highway” are uncovered, at Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire, England.
(University of Birmingham via AP)

LONDON (AP) — A worker digging up clay in a southern England limestone quarry noticed unusual bumps that led to the discovery of a “dinosaur highway” and nearly 200 tracks that date back 166 million years, researchers said Thursday.

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Navy Destroyer Named After Bob Kerrey

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 01/09/2025 - 3:00am

LINCOLN — First a bridge and now a Navy destroyer has been named after former Nebraska governor and U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey.

This week, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced that the Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke-class Guided Missile Destroyer has been named the USS Robert Kerrey (DDG 146).

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The Polar Vortex Brings Its Bitter Cold To The Southern US

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 01/09/2025 - 2:00am

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The plunging polar vortex brought subfreezing temperatures Tuesday to some of the southernmost points of the U.S., threatening to dump snow on parts of Texas and Oklahoma in the coming days and contributing to a power outage in Virginia's capital that made the water unsafe to drink.

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Nominees Deserve Senate Deliberation … So Do We

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 01/03/2025 - 6:00am

The New Year brings a “say so” for Nebraska U.S. Sens. Deb Fischer and Pete Ricketts as the president-elect fills a new cabinet. Advising and consenting on such matters is part of Fischer’s and Ricketts’ responsibilities as members of the “world’s greatest deliberative body.”

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House On Omaha’s Pinkney Street Helps Tell Story Of Fund To Counter Redlining

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 01/02/2025 - 7:00am

Mitzi Johnson sits on the new front porch of her North Omaha home that was improved with help from a zero-interest home renovation loan provided through the Greenlining Fund of Front Porch Investments. The fund is an effort to help reverse lingering negative effects of historic redlining and racially-biased credit practices.
(Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)

OMAHA — The yellow house on Pinkney Street packs a powerful 125-year history — one that has intertwined with Mitzi Johnson’s entire life, as well as generations of family members who lived there before her.

Parts of the past were ugly. Redlining and discriminatory loan practices dating back to the Great Depression beset the North Omaha neighborhood where the 1.5-story home rose in 1899.

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3 Years After The Marshall Fire: Wildfire Smoke’s Health Risks Can Linger Long-Term In Homes That Escape Burning

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 01/02/2025 - 5:00am

Three years ago, on Dec. 30, 2021, a wind-driven wildfire raced through two communities just outside Boulder, Colorado. In the span of about eight hours, more than 1,000 homes and businesses burned.

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Effort Revived To Preserve Access To Iconic Rapids On Scenic Niobrara River

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 01/02/2025 - 3:00am

LINCOLN — An on-again, off-again effort to ensure public access to the Niobrara River is back on again.

If the purchase of the Rocky Ford rapids area happens this time – it was blocked more than once a decade ago – it would maintain the public use of an important take-out point for those floating and kayaking the nationally designated scenic river.

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Hurricane-Force Winds Bear Down On California, Latest In Stretch Of Extreme Weather

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 01/02/2025 - 1:00am

Remnants of a bathroom that fell off the wharf are visible at the mouth of the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024.
(Nic Coury / AP Photo)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Record-setting flooding over three days dumped more than a foot of rain on parts of northern California, a fire left thousands under evacuation orders and warnings in Los Angeles County, forecasters issued the first-ever tornado warning in San Francisco and rough seas tore down part of a wharf in Santa Cruz.

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Lengthy Effort To Remake Omaha’s Crossroads Mall Site Hits ‘Milestone’

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 12/26/2024 - 7:00am

The latest version of the Crossroads redevelopment includes a public plaza surrounded by retailers and office space, shown here in a rendering.
(Courtesy of Holland Basham Architects)

OMAHA — It’s been 15 years since an Omaha developer bought the dying Crossroads Mall with expectations to create a bigger and better commercial centerpiece for Nebraska’s largest city.