Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 03/06/2023 - 5:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraskans on Wednesday packed a public hearing room and overflowed into another, waiting for a shot to weigh in on three proposals that will help shape the state’s final Voter ID law.
The trio of bills that aired during a combined session before the Legislature’s Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee represented different ends of the spectrum.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 03/06/2023 - 4:00am
The Nebraska Examiner has described Legislative Bill 753, the Opportunity Scholarship Act, as a bill that “provides public funds for private schools.” More specifically Legislative Bill 753 is described as “a bill that would set aside at least $25 million a year in taxpayer funds for tax credits for donations to private school scholarships.”
Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 03/06/2023 - 2:00am
Does wearing a mask stop the spread of COVID-19? Is climate change driven primarily by human-made emissions? With these kinds of issues dividing the public, it sometimes feels as if Americans are losing our ability to agree about basic facts of the world. There have been widespread disagreements about matters of seemingly objective fact in the past, yet the number of recent examples can make it feel as though our shared sense of reality is shrinking.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 02/27/2023 - 3:00am
LINCOLN — A legislative committee, after a few testy exchanges, advanced bills Wednesday evening to make abortion less accessible and ban minors from obtaining gender-altering procedures.
The votes were both 4-2, with one senator, Lynne Walz of Fremont, absent for the executive session.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 02/24/2023 - 2:00am
Omaha, NE – Today, Tracy Hightower-Henne launched her campaign to represent District 13 in the Nebraska Legislature. An attorney and community activist, Hightower-Henne has been an advocate for equal access to justice and reproductive freedom.
Published by jason@omahadail... on Mon, 02/20/2023 - 1:14pm
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Lawmakers in Nevada and California are advancing legislation to remove "involuntary servitude" from their states' constitutions, a move that follows four states' bans on forced labor that passed in ballot measures last fall.
Published by jason@omahadail... on Mon, 02/20/2023 - 1:12pm
OMAHA — A voting rights group that monitors Nebraska’s elections identified a handful of issues during the state’s 2022 general election but deemed the election “safe and secure.”
Published by jason@omahadail... on Mon, 02/20/2023 - 1:09pm
In his 2023 State of the Union address, President Joe Biden called for public school teachers to get a raise but offered no specifics on how that could be done. Here, Michael Addonizio, an education policy expert at Wayne State University, provides insight on the current state of teacher salaries, whether a collective raise is in order and how one might be achieved.