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
WASHINGTON — Congress is stumbling toward another government shutdown deadline at the end of the month with no clear plan in place to enact a bipartisan stopgap spending bill — and some new meddling...
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Here’s a funny thought: If Donald Trump lived in Nebraska, the state’s Republican Attorney General and the Republican Secretary of State would not want him to be able to vote for himself. That’s...
President Joe Biden walks over to talk with reporters before leaving the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, to travel to New York. (Susan Walsh / AP Photo)
New Biden Administration Rules Aim to Hold Insurers Accountable for Mental Health Care Coverage
by Maya Miller and Annie Waldman
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LINCOLN — The Nebraska Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit seeking to protect a new school voucher program for private K-12 education from repeal by ballot measure.
The court must...
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a press briefing at the Pentagon, July 25, 2024, in Washington. (Kevin Wolf / AP Photo)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Passage of a six-month temporary spending bill would have widespread and devastating effects on the Defense Department, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said in a letter to key members...
This Week's News
09/13/2024 - 7:00am
WASHINGTON — Congress is stumbling toward another government shutdown deadline at the end of the month with no clear plan in place to enact a bipartisan stopgap spending bill — and some new meddling by the Republican presidential nominee.
House...
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09/13/2024 - 6:00am
Here’s a funny thought: If Donald Trump lived in Nebraska, the state’s Republican Attorney General and the Republican Secretary of State would not want him to be able to vote for himself. That’s because they have unilaterally decided that laws...
President Joe Biden walks over to talk with reporters before leaving the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, to travel to New York. (Susan Walsh / AP Photo)
09/13/2024 - 4:00am
New Biden Administration Rules Aim to Hold Insurers Accountable for Mental Health Care Coverage
by Maya Miller and Annie Waldman
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09/13/2024 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — The Nebraska Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit seeking to protect a new school voucher program for private K-12 education from repeal by ballot measure.
The court must decide by the Friday deadline for Secretary of State...
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a press briefing at the Pentagon, July 25, 2024, in Washington. (Kevin Wolf / AP Photo)
09/13/2024 - 3:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Passage of a six-month temporary spending bill would have widespread and devastating effects on the Defense Department, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said in a letter to key members of Congress on Sunday.
Austin said that passing a...
09/13/2024 - 2:00am
It is easy to get distracted by the barbs, swipes and bluster of the ongoing and very public spat between the world’s richest man and a fierce justice on Brazil’s highest court. Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, posts regularly of his contempt...
Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., speaks at a press conference to call to re-up broad support for a package of bills in key voting rights bills, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (Cliff Owen / AP Photo)
09/13/2024 - 1:00am
WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers and a coalition of civil rights leaders Tuesday urged Congress to reform the filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation next Congress.
“Voting rights, succinctly put, are preservative of all other rights...
President Joe Biden (left) accompanied by North Wales, Pa. Mayor Neil McDevitt, walks out to the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, during an event to celebrate the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and to mark Disability Pride Month. (Jose Luis Magana / AP Photo)
09/13/2024 - 12:00am
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As hundreds of disability leaders, advocates, federal appointees and civil servants gathered on the White House’s South Lawn for...
09/12/2024 - 7:00am
OWYHEE, Nev. (AP) — The family placed flowers by a pair of weathered cowboy boots, as people quietly gathered for the memorial of the soft-spoken tribal chairman who mentored teens in the boxing ring and teased his grandkids on tractor rides.
Left...
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09/12/2024 - 6:00am
In less than a month, early voting Nebraskans will cast ballots for the next president and a slate of other leaders who will make decisions that affect our lives.
Voting, unimpeded and, we hope, informed, is how we do things. And it works … even...
09/12/2024 - 5:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska’s refundable income tax credit program for K-12 school property taxes is officially off the books, and new revisions will close the door for most taxpayers to get such relief on taxes paid in 2024.
Legislative Bill 34, passed 40-3...
09/12/2024 - 4:00am
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium is known as the Mother Church of Country Music. And, indeed, it began as a church, built by a riverboat captain who was converted to religion by an evangelist.
More than 130 years after it was...
Northern Lights illuminate the sky behind a windmill at the Farm and Ranch Museum in Gering, Neb., Sunday, Nov. 7, 2004. (Rick Myers / The Star-Herald via AP)
09/12/2024 - 3:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska’s remote Merritt Reservoir State Recreation Area is gaining acclaim for its remoteness and “exceptionally dark skies.”
In July, a premier star-gazing event there, the Nebraska Star Party, was named the best location for “...
09/11/2024 - 7:00am
On an afternoon this spring, the five employees of the Douglas County Historical Society posed with imitation movie props in front of a gold backdrop. They made funny faces for the playful photo meant to promote an upcoming exhibit on 20th century...
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09/11/2024 - 6:00am
Presidential elections of yore were not like this one. Would the media kindly get that into their collective skull? Many journalists seem to think that the reluctance of Kamala Harris to sit down for searing in-depth interviews on "the issues" is a...
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09/11/2024 - 5:00am
These Household Brands Want to Redefine What Counts as “Recyclable”
by Lisa Song
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Series: Selling a...
09/11/2024 - 4:00am
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A classic summertime scene unfolded at a nonprofit's newest site. The girls' team was winning a lively indoor kickball game among young campers. Air conditioning blared. The hit song “Dance Monkey” played throughout the old school...
09/10/2024 - 7:00am
WAKEFIELD – It’s lunch, and Rosa Brambila rings up an order of enchiladas and rice for a man from Guatemala, here in Nebraska to work. She pours a beer for a woman from Nicaragua, then brings out a burrito for the town’s only newspaper reporter.
On...
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09/10/2024 - 6:00am
The stakes could not be higher. Tens of millions of people will be watching, hopefully including those who (like me with baseball) tune in just in time for the World Series. Kamala Harris has to do two things: fill in the blanks in her own platform...
09/10/2024 - 5:00am
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has made moves to reclassify marijuana, making it a type of legal but regulated medicine, like Tylenol with codeine or some steroids.
With the reclassification, 26 states where cannabis is currently illegal...
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack speaks during an event at Greene Square Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. (Nick Rohlman / The Gazette via AP)
09/10/2024 - 4:00am
The federal government announced $7.3 billion in investments Thursday for 16 rural electric cooperatives around the country, including one in Nebraska, that seek to expand clean energy.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a news release the...
Feb. 20, 2012, a young man steps out of a skid steer while working on farm. (David Proeber / The Pantagraph / AP Photo)
09/10/2024 - 3:00am
DOJ Reaches Agreement With Wisconsin Sheriff’s Office to Improve Services for People Who Don’t Speak English
by Melissa Sanchez and Maryam Jameel
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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris talks to the media before boarding Air Force Two at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Romulus, Mich. (Julia Nikhinson / AP Photo)
09/09/2024 - 7:00am
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris defended her values and vowed, if elected, to appoint a Republican to her cabinet in her first major sit-down interview since her presidential campaign began just over a month ago.
Harris, who rose to the...
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris talks to the media before boarding Air Force Two at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Romulus, Mich. (Julia Nikhinson / AP Photo)
09/09/2024 - 7:00am
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris defended her values and vowed, if elected, to appoint a Republican to her cabinet in her first major sit-down interview since her presidential campaign began just over a month ago.
Harris, who rose to the...
President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sally Kornbluth. (Charles Krupa / AP Photo)
09/09/2024 - 6:00am
"Welcome to MIT!" the flyers being handed out to incoming students announce, next to a drawing of Tim the Beaver, MIT's mascot. The flyers go on to comment on the conflict in the Middle East and the State of Israel in particular, and they list more...
09/09/2024 - 5:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska voters appear likely to vote on whether to legalize and regulate medical marijuana, as well as decide the fate of a new “school choice” law in November’s election, barring last-minute legal challenges.
Secretary of State Bob Evnen...
President Joe Biden speaks to striking United Auto Workers on the picket line outside the Willow Run Redistribution Center, UAW Local 174, Sept. 26, 2023, in Van Buren Township, Mich. (Evan Vucci / AP Photo)
09/09/2024 - 4:00am
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump are in a tight race for the White House. Every voting bloc will count – including members of labor unions and other people in their households.
The majority of union...
09/09/2024 - 3:00am
OMAHA — State Sen. Tony Vargas, the Democrat running for the U.S. House in Nebraska’s 2nd District, said voters should consider why his Republican opponent, U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, did “a special favor” on a work visa for an international executive...
09/09/2024 - 2:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will debate for the first — and perhaps, last — time on Tuesday night as the presidential candidates fight to sway voters on the biggest stage in U.S. politics.
The meeting comes just 75 days after...
