Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/14/2025 - 1:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska lawmakers heard from gambling lobbyists that they should expand state gambling to include mobile sports betting, while opponents called out an “industry driven by greed.”
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/07/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN — The decade-long fight to secure a safe, regulated medical cannabis system in Nebraska could hinge on whether state lawmakers adopt legislation this spring to help implement the ballot measures.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/07/2025 - 5:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas wasn’t the first lawmaker ever to blurt out a shout of protest during a presidential address to Congress.
But he's perhaps the only one in recent memory to actually be ejected from the hall Tuesday night by the Speaker of the House.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/07/2025 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — One of Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen’s priorities advanced to the second round of debate with a vote on Monday, as a statewide cell phone ban in schools inched closer to becoming law.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/28/2025 - 7:00am
Upon meeting a new couple, the obligatory question that pops up is: “How did you two meet?" I’d hedge my money quickly on it being very likely that they met on a dating app. That in itself isn’t the sin that is eating away at Western civilization, but one of its symptoms, part of a broader, insidious disease.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/28/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN — After Jordyn Bader graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, her husband’s medical residency whisked the couple away to another state. But she continued to nurture her ag and techie roots reinforced by UNL’s Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/28/2025 - 4:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new federal lawsuit in Maryland is challenging a Trump administration memo giving the nation’s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate “race-based” practices of any kind or risk losing their federal money.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/28/2025 - 4:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new federal lawsuit in Maryland is challenging a Trump administration memo giving the nation’s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate “race-based” practices of any kind or risk losing their federal money.