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Desperate For Teachers, Nebraska Schools Turn Abroad — To The Philippines

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/28/2025 - 12:00am
Dorina Ramos passes out a worksheet while teaching a lesson in a physical science class in Schuyler, Neb., on May 2, 2025. A group of teachers from the Philippines moved to Schuyler to teach under H-1B visas this year.
(Rebecca S. Gratz / Flatwater Free Press)

SCHUYLER — In a classroom 7,903 miles from home, Dorina Ramos counts down from five. 

“Five,” Ramos says in her clear and practiced English, as a teenager passing around handfuls of chips sits back at his desk.

“Four.” A lingering high schooler stores his school-issued iPad away in a classroom cabinet.

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The Voices We Don’t Hear: Teachers Who Gave Up

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/28/2025 - 12:00am

The Voices We Don’t Hear: Teachers Who Gave Up

Pondiscio: So many earnest, well-intended people want to teach but find the job untenable. We should hear what they have to say and learn from them.

By Robert Pondiscio

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Show Of Support For Immigrants And Refugees Gets Loud On Omaha’s South 24th Street

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/28/2025 - 12:00am
Rallygoers wave at passing cars that honk and give thumbs up to the “Stand in Solidarity” event Thursday afternoon in South Omaha.
(Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)

OMAHA — Dozens packed a popular plaza on South Omaha’s Latino-dominated commercial corridor Thursday afternoon, carrying immigrant-friendly signs and waving bumper stickers that read: Who would Jesus deport?

“Stand in Solidarity” rallygoers heard from allies at the top of 10 organizations such as the Nebraska AFL-CIO labor union, Nebraska Farmers Union and Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce.

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Urban Fires Can Mean Long Trips For Helicopters To Get Water. One Firefighter Had A Better Idea

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/28/2025 - 12:00am
(Brittany Peterson / AP Photo)

CABAZON, Calif. (AP) — Mark Whaling and a crew raced up and down a hill in a tanker truck as they battled a wildfire in Los Angeles County, scrambling to get water from a street hydrant in time to stay ahead of flames moving up a ridge. A helicopter flew in to drop water, but it had to fly a long distance to refill — and a fire that might have been stopped went on to destroy homes.

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World Marks Malcolm X’s 100th Anniversary Of His Omaha Birth On May 19

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/21/2025 - 12:00am
A bust sculpture of Malcolm X was unveiled at his May 2024 induction into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. The art was designed by Lincoln artist Nathan Murray, who is shown here with Malcolm X’s daughter Ilyasah Shabazz (right of the bust) and JoAnna LeFlore-Ejike, executive director of the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation. The bust’s permanent spot is in a hallway of the State Capitol with other Hall of Fame busts.
 (Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)

OMAHA — State Sen. Terrell McKinney recalls Nebraska’s rockier relationship with Malcolm X, the rather rough road to getting the Omaha-born human rights leader into the state’s Hall of Fame.

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Finite Moments to Spend

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/21/2025 - 12:00am

“Ask yourself at every moment: ‘Is this necessary?’ ”

 Marcus Aurelius’s wisdom thankfully carries through the ages of the Earth to urge us to attention: U.S. citizens have been deported to countries where, upon landing, they no longer have rights. Not just ‘undocumented immigrants’ or ‘illegals,’ but those very people who our constitution should explicitly protect.

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Aid Workers Feel Helpless As Israel's Blockade Pushes Gaza Towards Famine

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/21/2025 - 12:00am
A boy scrapes leftovers from an empty pot after all the meals were distributed at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. 
(Abdel Kareem Hana / AP Photo)

BEIRUT (AP) — Two cases pushed nutritionist Rana Soboh to wits' end. First, a woman was rushed to a Gaza emergency room after fainting while she breastfed her newborn. She told Soboh she hadn’t eaten in days.

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House Panel Advances Measure To Cut Off Planned Parenthood From Medicaid Funds

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/21/2025 - 12:00am
Andi Grubb, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Nebraska, speaks during the Protect Our Rights Abortion Rights Ballot Initiative launch, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, in Omaha, Neb. 
(Nikos Frazier / Omaha World-Herald via AP)
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New Zealand's Unofficial Fruit Is The Feijoa, Not The Kiwi. And Part Of The Fun Is In Giving It Away

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/21/2025 - 12:00am
Feijoas is seen outside a house in Wellington, New Zealand, Monday, May 12, 2025. 
(Charlotte Graham-McLay / AP Photo)

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The unofficial national fruit of New Zealand isn’t native to the country – it’s South American. It isn’t exclusively found in New Zealand. And it’s not, perhaps surprisingly, the kiwi. It’s the feijoa.

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As Trump Slashes AmeriCorps, States Lose A Federal Partner In Community Service

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/14/2025 - 12:00am
AmeriCorps CEO Michael Smith.
(Kevin Wolf / AP Images for Boys & Girls Clubs of America)

WASHINGTON — Hillary Kane learned on a Saturday morning in April that within days, she would lose AmeriCorps funding for two programs that match mentors with West Philadelphia high schoolers and first-generation college students — both vulnerable groups at risk of not completing diplomas and degrees.

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