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Bill Advances To Expand Postpartum At-Home Nurse Visits For Nebraska Mothers On Medicaid

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 8:13am

LINCOLN — Lawmakers advanced a proposal Monday designed to help new mothers and newborns shortly after birth through postpartum at-home nurse visitations.

Legislative Bill 22, from State Sen. George Dungan of Lincoln, expands on his Nebraska Prenatal Plus Program enacted in 2024, which provides multiple supports for at-risk, low-income families for “healthy moms and healthy babies.”

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Startup Aims To Get More Public Opinion Fast And Easy To Nebraska Lawmakers

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 7:00am

Michella Blankman, team member of Ideologix Insights, provides information about the polling-focused startup to University of Nebraska at Omaha students on National Voter Registration Day.
(Courtesy of Ideologix Insights)

LINCOLN — Heather Nelson fell asleep anxious, troubled by a mother’s emotions broadcast on the evening news — but more so that she’d missed a deadline to support a related bill before Nebraska lawmakers.

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The Real Costs Of ICE Raids At Schools – And What Educators Should Do

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 6:00am

President Donald Trump held true to campaign promises to overhaul the U.S. immigration system by signing 10 executive orders focused on immigration on his inauguration day. The sweeping nature of these orders has rocked immigrant communities across the country.

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Trump’s Project 2025 Agenda Caps Decades-Long Resistance To 20th Century Progressive Reform

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 5:00am

U.S. President Richard Nixon presents to Lewis F. Powell, Jr. a framed commission as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court during a ceremony at the White House in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1971.
(Henry Burroughs / AP Photo)

For much of the 20th century, efforts to remake government were driven by a progressive desire to make the government work for regular Americans, including the New Deal and the Great Society reforms.

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Trump Says He's Exploring Option To Send Jailed US Criminals To Other Countries

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 4:00am

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio (right) meets with President Nayib Bukele at his residence at Lake Coatepeque in El Salvador, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025.
(Mark Schiefelbein / AP Photo)

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was exploring whether he can move forward with El Salvador’s offer to accept and jail violent American criminals in the “most severe cases" even as he and Secretary of State Marco Rubio both say it raises clear legal issues.

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Death Of New York Man Beaten By Prison Guards Ruled A Homicide In Autopsy Report, Lawyers Say

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 3:00am

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The death of a handcuffed man who was pummeled by New York prison guards was ruled a homicide in an autopsy report, lawyers for his family said Wednesday.

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Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order Is Put On Hold By A Second Federal Judge

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 2:00am

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a second nationwide pause on President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for anyone born in the U.S. to someone in the country illegally, calling citizenship a “most precious right.”

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Lincoln Man Reportedly Working On Elon Musk, DOGE Government Efficiency Project

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 1:00am

LINCOLN — He isn’t yet responding to requests to talk to Nebraska media. But others are talking a lot about former University of Nebraska-Lincoln student Luke Farritor’s reported role in Elon Musk’s effort to reduce federal government spending.

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Lawmakers, Governor, University Of Nebraska Seek More Info On Federal Spending Pause, Review

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 01/31/2025 - 7:00am

President Donald Trump pauses as he speaks at a campaign event at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, in Atlanta.
(Alex Brandon / AP Photo)

LINCOLN — State lawmakers, Gov. Jim Pillen and the president of the University of Nebraska were among those Tuesday seeking to understand the state-level impacts of a federal pause and review of certain financial assistance programs by the Trump administration.

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Trump Offering Federal Workers Buyouts With About 8 Months' Pay In Effort To Shrink Government

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 01/31/2025 - 5:00am

American Federation of Government Employees union President Everett Kelley.
(Jacquelyn Martin / AP Photo)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it is offering buyouts to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by next week — an unprecedented move to shrink the U.S. government at breakneck speed.

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Bill Advances To Expand Postpartum At-Home Nurse Visits For Nebraska Mothers On Medicaid

Startup Aims To Get More Public Opinion Fast And Easy To Nebraska Lawmakers

The Real Costs Of ICE Raids At Schools – And What Educators Should Do

Trump’s Project 2025 Agenda Caps Decades-Long Resistance To 20th Century Progressive Reform

Trump Says He's Exploring Option To Send Jailed US Criminals To Other Countries

Death Of New York Man Beaten By Prison Guards Ruled A Homicide In Autopsy Report, Lawyers Say

Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order Is Put On Hold By A Second Federal Judge

Lincoln Man Reportedly Working On Elon Musk, DOGE Government Efficiency Project

Lawmakers, Governor, University Of Nebraska Seek More Info On Federal Spending Pause, Review

Trump Offering Federal Workers Buyouts With About 8 Months' Pay In Effort To Shrink Government

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