Profiles
After being appointed to the New York City Art Commission, she was invited to the annual dinner at a men’s club in New York. The invitation said “Black Tie,” so she wore a black evening gown with a...
Gavin Newsom on July 12, 2024. (Juliana Yamada / AP Photo, Pool)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he has President Joe Biden's back. It's almost enough for me to take him off my list of possible successors to the incumbent president. Having Biden's back is not a...
From left: my husband Greg DeWall, children Leo and Josephine DeWall, and myself with former Nebraska Governor and current U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts on the day he signed into law a Nebraska bill protecting the rights of disabled parents in 2018. ( Stacy Cervenka courtesy photo)
With Mother’s Day recently passed and Father’s Day just around the corner, families across the United States are celebrating the dedication, love, and sacrifice that parents show their children and...
BlueBarn Theatre debuted ““More of a Heart”” on March 28, 2024. The play was written by Dave Osmundsen. The play explores family dynamics and what it means to truly communicate. Zachary is a college...
To understand the somewhat divisive and misunderstood concept of gerrymandering that has real consequences in parts of the United States, it helps to begin with the concept from the decisively...
Today’s News
OMAHA — Allegations flew Monday in Nebraska’s most competitive U.S. Senate race, with one campaign threatening legal action over campaign advertising and a report about talk of “Hitler Youth.”...
Nick Fuentes, far-right activist, holds a rally at the Lansing Capitol, in Lansing, Mich., Nov. 11, 2020. Former President Donald Trump had dinner Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, at his Mar-a-Lago club with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who is now known as Ye, as well as Nick Fuentes, who has used his online platform to spew antisemitic and white supremacist rhetoric. (Nicole Hester / Ann Arbor News via AP)
At a donor event last week with Miriam Adelson, the widow of Las Vegas casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, Donald Trump promised to be the best friend Jews have ever had in the White House. The event...
A corn field in Saunders County, Nebraska, just outside of Ashland grows in midsummer sun. (Aaron Sanderford / Nebraska Examiner)
The cost of fertilizer is up; crop prices are down. Farmers have struggled through drought, and ranchers sold off huge swaths of their herd.
To top it all off, Congress has yet to pass a new...
ANNANDALE, Va. (AP) — As lawmakers voted on a budget deal at the U.S. Capitol, a different kind of balloting was taking place a dozen miles away in a sun-filled Virginia preschool classroom. At stake...
New York City mayor Eric Adams (right) appears with his attorney, Alex Spiro, outside Manhattan federal court after an appearance, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP Photo)
As the Democratic primary for mayor in New York approached in the spring of 2021, most of my friends and colleagues were supporting one of three candidates.
My lefty friends were all rallying around...
This Week's News
10/04/2024 - 7:00am
OMAHA — Allegations flew Monday in Nebraska’s most competitive U.S. Senate race, with one campaign threatening legal action over campaign advertising and a report about talk of “Hitler Youth.”
Nebraska nonpartisan candidate Dan Osborn’s campaign...
Nick Fuentes, far-right activist, holds a rally at the Lansing Capitol, in Lansing, Mich., Nov. 11, 2020. Former President Donald Trump had dinner Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, at his Mar-a-Lago club with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who is now known as Ye, as well as Nick Fuentes, who has used his online platform to spew antisemitic and white supremacist rhetoric. (Nicole Hester / Ann Arbor News via AP)
10/04/2024 - 6:00am
At a donor event last week with Miriam Adelson, the widow of Las Vegas casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, Donald Trump promised to be the best friend Jews have ever had in the White House. The event was entitled "Fighting Antisemitism in America."...
A corn field in Saunders County, Nebraska, just outside of Ashland grows in midsummer sun. (Aaron Sanderford / Nebraska Examiner)
10/04/2024 - 4:00am
The cost of fertilizer is up; crop prices are down. Farmers have struggled through drought, and ranchers sold off huge swaths of their herd.
To top it all off, Congress has yet to pass a new iteration of the farm bill, which expired Monday, and is...
10/04/2024 - 4:00am
ANNANDALE, Va. (AP) — As lawmakers voted on a budget deal at the U.S. Capitol, a different kind of balloting was taking place a dozen miles away in a sun-filled Virginia preschool classroom. At stake: which animated dog was the best character on the...
New York City mayor Eric Adams (right) appears with his attorney, Alex Spiro, outside Manhattan federal court after an appearance, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP Photo)
10/04/2024 - 3:00am
As the Democratic primary for mayor in New York approached in the spring of 2021, most of my friends and colleagues were supporting one of three candidates.
My lefty friends were all rallying around progressive standard-bearer Maya Wiley. My more...
Lovely R. Suanino, a respiratory therapist at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, N.J., demonstrates setting up a ventilator in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital Wednesday, May 25, 2005. (Mike Derer / AP Photo)
10/04/2024 - 2:00am
A Hospital Kept a Brain-Damaged Patient on Life Support to Boost Statistics. His Sister Is Now Suing for Malpractice.
by Caroline Chen
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10/04/2024 - 1:00am
In the 2024 election cycle, voters without children are under the microscope.
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance has said that “childless cat ladies” and older adults without kids are “sociopaths” who “don’t have a direct stake in this...
10/03/2024 - 7:00am
The 35th annual Commercial Real Estate Summit, a landmark gathering of real estate agents, brokers, investors, and fellow stakeholders was held at the CHI Health Center in Downtown Omaha, Nebraska on August 23.
Nearly 900 people gathered with a...
A site plan of the 18 acres on which Alliance Sports plans to build a home soccer stadium for Union Omaha. Around it would be practice fields, housing, retail, a hotel, pickleball courts and parking. (Courtesy of Alliance Sports)
10/03/2024 - 6:00am
Dream with me for a moment.
Imagine driving into downtown Omaha and seeing a state-of-the-art professional soccer stadium as a part of the city’s gateway and hearing the roar of thousands of soccer fans fill the air. Omaha already knows the thrill...
10/03/2024 - 5:00am
As a first-time renter straight out of high school, Spencer Antrim didn’t know what to expect of his landlord when he signed a lease at Camelot Village Apartments.
The restaurant worker assumed it was normal to have some unresolved maintenance...
10/03/2024 - 4:00am
OMAHA — For Donell Brown, the pieces of a budding real estate business fell into place rather naturally.
By day, he’s a supply chain manager at a Fortune 500 company. But a friend’s suggestion prompted him to soak up Spark’s “developer academy”...
10/03/2024 - 3:00am
Constellation, an energy company that provides electricity and natural gas to customers in 16 states and Washington, announced on Sept. 20, 2024, that it plans to restore and restart Unit 1 at Three Mile Island, a nuclear plant near Middletown,...
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10/03/2024 - 2:00am
DETROIT (AP) — Along a busy road in west Detroit, there's little respite from the sun for residents stopping for gasoline, attending places of worship or bringing children to daycare. But a budding canopy of trees planted this year will change the...
10/02/2024 - 7:00am
Pricking his finger with a small needle, Anthony Warrior squeezed a drop of blood onto the test strip. As he saw the number illuminate, the then-40-year-old Absentee Shawnee citizen and Muskogee descendant knew his days of bad eating had caught up...
A supporter waits for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris at a campaign rally Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Eau Claire, Wis. (Julia Nikhinson / AP Photo)
10/02/2024 - 6:00am
I find no need to defend my wife from J.D. Vance’s gasbaggery. She’s plenty capable of that herself. Truth be told, with an MBA, careers in network television and banking and 31 years of motherhood under her belt, Vance would be overmatched.
In...
10/02/2024 - 5:00am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — On a hot summer evening, Miles Villalon lined up outside the New Beverly Cinema, hours before showtime.
The 36-year-old already had tickets to the Watergate-themed double feature of 1976's “All the President’s Men” and 1999's “...
10/02/2024 - 4:00am
By all accounts, Milagra the "miracle" California condor shouldn’t be alive today.
But now at nearly 17 months old, she is one of three of the giant endangered birds who got to stretch their wings in the wild as part of a release this weekend near...
AmeriCorps members Katie Batenhorst (left) of Omaha, Neb. and Tayler Walters (center) of Westfield, Ohio play cards with Watertown S.D. Boys and Girls Club members James Bue (in orange), Kaydence Grant, Marin Kasten and Taylyn Bach on Aug. 14, 2019. (Dan Crisler / The Public Opinion via AP)
10/02/2024 - 3:00am
For the Sake of America’s School Children, Congress Must Keep AmeriCorps Going
Balfanz & Huffman: Volunteers have been key to helping students recover from pandemic learning losses through tutoring, fighting chronic absenteeism.
By Robert...
10/01/2024 - 7:00am
OMAHA — Organizers of a November ballot measure that would require Nebraska businesses to provide employees with a minimum level of paid sick leave announced Wednesday that they had secured the public backing of more than 200 businesses.
Paid Sick...
Pamela Caraballo, who has a child at the Northwest High School, reacts as she waits outside the school for students to be released after a shooting was reported Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, in Omaha, Neb. (Megan Nielsen / Omaha World-Herald via AP)
10/01/2024 - 6:00am
Recently I attended my 50th high school reunion. (Yes, I know, I’m old.) I attended two of my high schools reunions. One here in Omaha in person and one in Columbus Ohio virtually via Facebook
You see, I moved to Omaha my junior year of high school...
New recruits participate in the Army's future soldier prep course that gives lower-performing recruits up to 90 days of academic or fitness instruction to help them meet military standards at Fort Jackson, a U.S. Army Training Center, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. (Chris Carlson / AP Photo)
10/01/2024 - 5:00am
FORT JACKSON, South Carolina (AP) — After several very difficult years and a swath of new programs and enticements, the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Space Force will all meet their recruiting goals by the end of this month and the Navy will...
10/01/2024 - 4:00am
ExxonMobil Accused of “Deceptively” Promoting Chemical Recycling as a Solution for the Plastics Crisis
by Lisa Song
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10/01/2024 - 3:00am
Wisconsin carpenter Efrain Campos just retired this summer after 30 years, working mostly in commercial multi-story buildings — “from 15 floors and up,” he said. For him the last four years have been a boom period.
On Labor Day, Campos, 68, was...
10/01/2024 - 2:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa, alleging that the financial services behemoth uses its size and dominance to stifle competition in the debit card market, costing consumers and businesses...
09/30/2024 - 7:00am
LINCOLN — Former President Donald Trump spoke by phone Wednesday with at least one of the two dozen Republican state senators who attended Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen’s winner-take-all meeting at the Governor’s Mansion.
That meeting, which the governor...
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09/30/2024 - 6:00am
Ahead of Election Day, a new national survey shows most voters know little about the personal impacts of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which is set to expire at the end of 2025.
The survey, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies on behalf of Stand...
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09/30/2024 - 5:00am
Every campaign season brings renewed attention to the amount of money influencing American politics, and who is spending it, and for what purposes. In particular, people are concerned about what is called “dark money.” For instance, recent media...
U.S. President Joseph Biden addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (Richard Drew / AP Photo)
09/30/2024 - 4:00am
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Joe Biden declared in his final address to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that the U.S. must not retreat from the world, as Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon edged toward all-out war and Israel’s bloody...
09/30/2024 - 3:00am
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Donald Trump on Tuesday pledged to stop U.S. businesses from shipping jobs overseas and to take other countries’ jobs and factories by relying heavily on sweeping tariffs to boost auto manufacturing — despite warnings that...
The U.S. Capitol. (Jennifer Shutt / States Newsroom)
09/30/2024 - 2:00am
WASHINGTON — Congress overwhelmingly approved a stopgap spending bill Wednesday that will keep the federal government running through Dec. 20, though the divided Congress has a lot of negotiating to do if members want to pass the dozen full-year...
