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The Rule Of Law Is Key To Capitalism − Eroding It Is Bad News For American Business

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/08/2025 - 12:00am

Something dangerous is happening to the U.S. economy, and it’s not inflation or trade wars. Chaotic deregulation and the selective enforcement of laws have upended markets and investor confidence. At one point, the threat of tariffs and resulting chaos evaporated US$4 trillion in value in the U.S. stock market. This approach isn’t helping the economy, and there are troubling signs it will hurt both the U.S. and the global economy in the short and long term.

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Microsoft's Largest Layoff In Years Hits Xbox, Sales And Other Divisions

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/08/2025 - 12:00am

Microsoft says it is laying off about 9,000 workers, its second mass layoff in months and its largest in more than two years.

The tech giant began sending out layoff notices Wednesday that hit the company's Xbox video game business and other divisions.

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In A Big Bill That Hurts Clean Energy, Residential Solar Likely To Get Hit Fast

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/08/2025 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Republicans in Congress rushed forward with a massive tax and spending cut bill, a North Carolina renewable energy executive wrote to his 190 employees with a warning: Deep cuts to clean energy tax credits were going to hurt.

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The SBH Review: Lively Santoro Offers Omaha A Mix Of Mexican Favorites And Novel Offerings

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/08/2025 - 12:00am

Jesus Rivera, the owner and chef at Santoro, the buzzy new restaurant at 8601 West Dodge Road in Omaha. Rivera is well known in Omaha for long operating Rivera’s, the Mexican spot that bore his name.
(Bob Glissmann / Flatwater Free Press)

Santoro, chef Jesus Rivera’s new higher-end Mexican spot, has been on my radar for at least a year.

Like so many Omahans, I was a big fan of his former restaurant, Rivera’s, which closed about two years ago. If my recent visits to Santoro, in a development at 8601 West Dodge Road, are any indication, lots of diners share both my curiosity about his new spot and a lingering desire for the old one, too.

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Superintendents’ Early Childhood Plan: A Decade Of Omaha Metro Success

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/08/2025 - 12:00am

As superintendents of the 11 school districts that make up the Learning Community of Douglas and Sarpy Counties, we want to take full advantage of the awe-inspiring early years when children’s brains develop most rapidly.

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A Mediterranean Sun In Omaha: Zaytuna

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/01/2025 - 12:00am

The stunning Zaytuna Mix consists of light rice, temperate beef, seared chicken, wonderful pickles and perhaps the best tomato in Omaha.
(Austin Petak / The Daily Record)

The darkness of that 80’s cigarette-stained basement was ever suffocating. Pallid and lethargic in my seat, a savior approached.

“Come with me if you don’t want to suffer the feeling of being overfull!” The Afghan held out his hand, helping me rise from the torture chair of another American food-chain restaurant, where it is believed that a gallon of fry oil and butter is a reasonable spice for everything.

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Accurate Information Is Our Responsibility

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/01/2025 - 12:00am

Nebraska U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., is the current owner of an IOU worth millions of dollars. The chit is the result of his vote for the small-minded, unattractive and unpopular bill working its way through Congress, part of which will cut funding for Nebraska Public Media (NPM).

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Minimum Wage Set To Increase In 15 Cities, States Despite Lawmaker Pushback

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/01/2025 - 12:00am

The minimum wage will increase in 15 states and cities in July, though lawmakers in other states have worked to slow down wage hikes.

Wage floor increases beginning July 1 in Alaska, Oregon and Washington, D.C., will benefit more than 880,000 workers by collectively raising their earnings by more than $397 million, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.

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Unemployment Among Young College Graduates Outpaces Overall US Joblessness Rate

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/01/2025 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — While completing a master’s degree in data analysis, Palwasha Zahid moved from Dallas to a town near Silicon Valley. The location made it easy to visit the campuses of tech stalwarts such as Google, Apple, and Nvidia.

Zahid, 25, completed her studies in December, but so far she hasn't found a job in the industry that surrounds her.

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Duncan Hines Parent Conagra Brands Says It Will Phase Out Artificial Colors

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/01/2025 - 12:00am

Conagra Brands, the parent company of Duncan Hines, Slim Jim and other brands, is the latest big food company to say it’s discontinuing the use of artificial dyes.