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New Legislation Takes Aim At Hidden Foster Care

Published by jason@omahadail... on Fri, 02/10/2023 - 5:00am
A ProPublica-New York Times Magazine story exposed a system with few legal protections for families. A first-of-its-kind bill aims to provide parents with free counsel when child protection workers try to move their kids without going to court.
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Last month, Washington state Rep. Lillian Ortiz-Self, a Democrat, introduced a first-of-its-kind bill aimed at providing attorneys for parents who are facing hidden foster care, the subject of a ProPublica-New York Times Magazine investigation in December 2021. The story documented how, across the country, caseworkers who have not petitioned a court persuade parents to send their children to live in another home, often by threatening a foster placement if they refuse.

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A 1993 Family And Medical Leave Law Was Supposed To Be Just The Start. Thirty Years Later, Not Much Has Changed.

Published by jason@omahadail... on Fri, 02/10/2023 - 3:00am

Sunday marked 30 years since Congress passed the United States’ first comprehensive federal family and sick leave program. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was intended to pave the way for more expansive paid leave laws — but the law’s core promises, and the hopes of the advocates who fought for it, remain unfulfilled.

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Year-Round Daylight Saving Time Has A Chance This Year In Nebraska

Published by jason@omahadail... on Fri, 02/10/2023 - 1:00am

LINCOLN — After years of trying, the Nebraska Legislature appears poised to pass a first step toward ending the twice-a-year tyranny of changing the clock.

State Sen. Tom Briese of Albion again proposed keeping Nebraska on daylight saving time, if Congress and a third neighboring state join Nebraska in passing such a law.

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Omaha Streetcar Plan In Jeopardy Under Proposed Legislation, Omaha Mayoral Aide Says

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 02/06/2023 - 5:00am
The Nebraska State Capitol is photographed by a drone on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in downtown Lincoln, Neb. A tax-increment financing bill spurred lively discussion in the legislature.  (Kenneth Ferriera / Lincoln Journal Star via AP)

LINCOLN — A bill before the Nebraska Legislature could kill Omaha’s modern-day streetcar, as it would curb future tax-increment financing revenue that city leaders are counting on to pay off the project.

That’s according to Steve Jensen, a City of Omaha economic development aide, who spoke Tuesday at a legislative committee hearing on the TIF-related bill introduced by State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan of Elkhorn.

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Meet Bayard Rustin, Often-Forgotten Civil Rights Activist, Gay Rights Advocate, Union Organizer, Pacifist And Man Of Compassion For All In Trouble

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 02/06/2023 - 4:00am

As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues cautioned me not to “fall in love.”

This, of course, is good advice for any biographer, and I tried to follow it.

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Time For New Presidential Candidates In 2024

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 02/06/2023 - 3:00am

Sherlock Holmes’ statement that “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data,” in Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Study in Scarlet,” is a pearl of wisdom to use when thinking about America’s political future.

The following data applies to the Nov. 5, 2024, presidential election notion that Donald Trump and Joe Biden are too old to be president.

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Nebraska Lawmakers Put Off Vote On 'Heartbeat' Abortion Ban

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 02/06/2023 - 2:00am
Hundreds of people crowded the Nebraska State Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, in Lincoln. Neb., to protest a so-called heartbeat bill that would outlaw abortion at a point before many women even know they’re pregnant. The bill, which was before the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee on Wednesday, would ban abortions once cardiac activity can be detected in a embryo, which is generally around the sixth week of pregnancy. (Margery A. Beck / AP Photo)

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Legislature's Health and Human Services Committee took nearly eight hours of testimony Wednesday before adjourning without a vote on whether to advance a bill that would outlaw abortion at a point before many women know they're pregnant.

Hundreds of people crowded the halls of the state Capitol for a committee hearing on a so-called heartbeat bill.

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Nebraska Lawmakers, Health Care Organizations Praise, Criticize Pillen’s State Of The State

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 01/30/2023 - 5:00am
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen delivers his State of the State on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, at the state Capitol in Lincoln, Neb. (Anna Reed / Omaha World-Herald via AP Photo)

LINCOLN — State senators, nonprofits and local organizations expressed glee but caution last Wednesday with Gov. Jim Pillen’s outlined priorities in his State of the State address.

Much of Pillen’s address expanded upon his budget recommendations, which have been introduced in legislation by Speaker John Arch of La Vista and offered a vision for Nebraska’s trajectory.

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U.S. Hits Debt Limit And Treasury Department Begins ‘Extraordinary Measures’

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 01/24/2023 - 1:00am

WASHINGTON — The nation reached its debt limit last Thursday, beginning the uncertain process known as extraordinary measures, in which the U.S. Treasury Department uses accounting maneuvers to avoid defaulting on the debt.

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Former Police Officers Signal Systemic Issues Within Lincoln Police And Fire Departments

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 01/23/2023 - 5:00am
Nine former members of the Lincoln Police and Fire departments have come forward to speak about the systemic abuse they saw and experienced within their departments. In partnership with the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, they are in talks to bring legal action against their departments in the hopes of instilling lasting change and making sure that the Police and Fire departments are made accountable for their actions. (Shutterstock)

LINCOLN – Nine individuals have stepped forward to confront the toxic culture that persists inside the Lincoln Police and Fire Departments. After speaking out against the systemic abuse and receiving retaliation from their departments, seven police officers and two firefighters have come together to bring light to the pervasive problems in Lincoln.

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