Adam Piper, a full-time staffer for Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign in South Carolina, answers calls and returns emails from Columbia, S.C., Dec. 28, 2007. Piper, the executive director of Republican Attorneys General Association, resigned last week after criticism of the associated group Rule of Law Defense Fund’s funding of phone calls to supporters encouraging them to attend the March to Save America that preceded the recent seige of the U.S. Capitol. (AP)
By supporting efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election, most of the nation’s Republican state attorneys general may have undermined their offices’ long-held special status in...
Sen. Terrell McKinney with his daughter, Sana’a, in the Capitol rotunda on opening day of the 2021 session. (Unicameral Information Office)
So, which is more of a full-contact sport: wrestling or politics?
“Probably politics,” new Omaha Sen. Terrell McKinney told the Nebraska Unicameral Information Office with a chuckle.
He would know....
Nebraska teachers and meatpacking workers worry it will take longer for essential workers like them to get the coronavirus vaccine now that the next group of people to be vaccinated has been expanded...
A Sapp Bros. gas station in Percival, Iowa, stands in floodwaters from the Missouri River, May 10, 2019. (AP)
St. Joseph, Mo. – The federal government faces a second lawsuit over flooding along the Missouri River after it was ordered last month to pay some landowners for damages.
R. Dan Boulware, of the...
Due to COVID-related backlogs at processing plants, Nebraska farmers must make reservations more than one year before animals are born. (Frauke Feind/Pixabay)
Oakland – Nebraska lawmakers are considering a bill to provide some relief for meat supply chains by allowing consumers to purchase smaller ownership shares of livestock.
Aunbrea Zeleny with the...
Legal News
Omaha Bar Association members and their guests filled The Bar at Ackerhurst Dairy Farm for the 20th annual OBA Wine Tasting event Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. (Scott Stewart/Daily Record)
01/20/2021 - 3:00am
The Omaha Bar Association is reminding members to sign up for the 21st annual wine tasting coming up later this month.
This year’s event will be held virtually on Friday, Jan. 29, beginning at 7 p.m. Registration is required by this upcoming Monday...
Business News
The reopened Sonic restaurant at 1307 Cornhusker Road in Bellevue, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2020. (Scott Stewart/Daily Record)
01/20/2021 - 1:00am
Bellevue — The fast-food restaurant where two workers were killed, and two others wounded during a November shooting recently reopened.
The owner of the Bellevue Sonic restaurant said the remodeled business reopened last Wednesday for the first time...
In Memoriam
01/20/2021 - 6:46am
The Omaha legal community lost one of its strongest advocates when former Omaha Bar Association Executive Director Mardee Johnston passed away on Jan. 13, six weeks shy of her 85th birthday.
Johnston, who went by Korinek until her marriage to George...
Sponsored Features
06/18/2020 - 5:00am
The COVID-19 pandemic has virtually flipped the business marketplace on its head, making experience all the more important for those looking to buy or sell a small business.
David Bandars, owner of RPR Business Associates Inc., is at the ready to...
