Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 01/13/2026 - 12:00am
Dr. Ali Khan knelt down outside a Karachi doorway and extended his hand. The young girl who, moments earlier, had just received the polio vaccine extended her hand and a skeptical look toward the smiling doctor in a red hat emblazoned with a white N.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 01/13/2026 - 12:00am
Ah, the new year! What a good time to change bad habits in one’s life. A time in which people make ‘new-year’s resolutions’, or perhaps more accurately, what they make as self-promises are actually prophecies which most hope will be fulfilled. At the turn of the year, many swear to get in shape, but empty gyms perhaps suggest that there is a hope that the prophecies would be fulfilled by karma itself, owed from everything that people had to put up with last year.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 01/13/2026 - 12:00am
Imagine you are searching for a new mattress online and find something surprising. The retailer displays an ad featuring a “Mattress Comfort Scale” running from 1 (soft) to 10 (firm), followed by the message that if your firmness preference is at either end, this mattress is not for you. Wait … what? A retailer telling someone not to buy its product? No way!
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 01/13/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Calling affordable child care vital to Nebraska’s workforce, business leaders joined other advocates Thursday in championing a proposed state law to extend current income eligibility levels for a child care subsidy.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 01/06/2026 - 12:00am
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Farmers are now learning how much aid they can expect to receive from a $12 billion package that President Donald Trump announced earlier this month.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 01/06/2026 - 12:00am
The U.S. economy heads into 2026 in an unusual place: Inflation is down from its peak in mid-2022, growth has held up better than many expected, and yet American households say that things still feel shaky. Uncertainty is the watchword, especially with a major Supreme Court ruling on tariffs on the horizon.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 01/06/2026 - 12:00am
On New Year's Day, Bulgaria will achieve its decades-old goal of joining the euro currency union and deepening ties with the more prosperous countries of Western Europe.
Membership is expected to promote cross-border trade and investment, and the Bulgarian government pressed for years to get in. Yet polls show the changeover is taking place against a background of widespread skepticism among ordinary people.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 01/06/2026 - 12:00am
Without realizing the sheer cliffs that a man can fall off if he is careless, I made a half-thought-out decision to review “the ramen in Omaha.” Living in Omaha all of my life, I hadn’t seen many ramen restaurants, and as such, it was then believed that the process would be simple and quick. Off-hand I knew of three, which I had been to prior. Alas, though I knew that Omaha (minus the metro) was rated highly for the number of restaurants-per-person, I had not considered the size of the task which I had set before me.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 12/30/2025 - 12:00am
The restaurant itself was beautiful. It had no need of the men in pressed suits or the women in autumn colored dresses. Nor would those few revelers who were passing by the broad windows have any effect on the ambiance inside. At a small table in the corner, I had been sitting; my eyes drifting between the awnings just outside to thoughts of a man getting ready for a date.