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Playground Fights And Adult Dialogues

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 07/25/2025 - 12:00am

It is so that the political divide in the United States between conservative and liberal is quite… no, not quite, but, “exceptionally” toxic. I won’t kid you and say the conservatives have been doing everything right recently; quite the opposite, at least in regard to the Big Beautiful Bill, in which Republican Senators blocked extending Senator Markay’s amendment, which would extend funding for Alzheimer's research.

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Forensic Crime Labs Are Buckling As New Technology Increases Demand

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 07/25/2025 - 12:00am

In this April 2, 2015 photo, a sexual assault evidence kit is logged in the biology lab at the Houston Forensic Science Center in Houston.
(Pat Sullivan / AP Photo)

Across the country, state and local crime labs are drowning in evidence.

From rape kits to drug samples to vials of blood, delays in forensic testing are stalling prosecutions, stretching court calendars and forcing impossible choices about what gets tested — and what doesn’t.

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Omaha Attorney Joins Rally Cry Campaigns As Voice Of The People

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 07/18/2025 - 12:00am

Attorney Joshua Livingston, who recently announced his run for the Nebraska State Legislature, District 8, vows to fight for working families, protect civil rights and stand up for Nebraskan values.
(Courtesy Photo)

This year, the Omaha Bar Association celebrated National Law Day with the theme, “The Constitution’s Promise: Out of Many One.”

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The Puzzle That Breaks The Elephant’s Back?

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 07/18/2025 - 12:00am

Usually when a politician opens their mouth, it's never a question of what you are going to get. I believe my father used to say that he, “Needed to change his boots" when any of them spoke because the level of…brown muck…was getting so high that it ruined his shoes.

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Omaha Tribe Of Nebraska Legalizes, Regulates Medical And Recreational Marijuana

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 07/18/2025 - 12:00am

MACY, Nebraska — The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska became the first government in Nebraska on Tuesday to fully legalize and seek to regulate both medicinal and adult recreational-use cannabis.

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The IRS Is Building A Vast System To Share Millions Of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 07/18/2025 - 12:00am

The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE

by William Turton, Christopher Bing and Avi Asher-Schapiro

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The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program that would give deportation officers unprecedented access to confidential tax data.

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Sarpy Scuffle: County Attorney Suing County Board After Refusing Demand To Fire Top Prosecutor

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 07/11/2025 - 12:00am

The five members of the Sarpy County Board of Commissioners shake hands with a member of the county sheriff’s department at a board meeting on June 24. From left to right: Gary Mixan, David Klug, Jim Warren, Angi Burmeister and Don Kelly.
(Abiolo Kosoko / Flatwater Free Press)

For the past seven months, a top prosecutor in the Sarpy County Attorney’s Office, a lawyer making more than $140,000 a year, has been paid by the county to stay home.

The Sarpy County Board blocked him from offices in the courthouse and revoked his access to the computer systems and files he’d need to do his job.

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Celebrating 250 Years Of The U.S. Army

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 07/11/2025 - 12:00am

In June, we wished our United States Army a happy 250th birthday. It was a significant day for me, having grown up around the world among soldiers, sailors, airmen and their families.

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Nebraska Sues General Motors For Allegedly Collecting, Selling Driver Data Without Consent

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 07/11/2025 - 12:00am

LINCOLN — Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers on Tuesday announced that his office is suing General Motors for allegedly collecting and selling data on drivers without their consent for at least the past decade.