Profiles

Annual Commercial Real Estate Summit: Navigating A Higher Interest Rate Environment

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 08/24/2023 - 1:00am

Jery Slusky, Founder and Co-Chair of CRE Summit discusses the real estate market for the coming year in preparation for this year’s Summit.

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SCOTUS: Justices Uphold Indian Child Welfare Act

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 08/21/2023 - 2:00am

The creation of Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) stemmed from the Devils Lake Sioux’s concern about the treatment they received by the county welfare officers in 1968. Children were regularly removed from their homes and placed into foster homes or adopted by non-native households. All rehoming was done without consultation from either tribal leaders or the community.

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SCOTUS: Affirmative Action

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 08/07/2023 - 4:00am

On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court came to a decision on Students for Fair Admission Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admission Inc v. University of North Carolina. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court invalidated admission policies, effectively ending decades of race conscious admission policies.

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‘Barbenheimer’: The Double Feature That Revived The Movie Theater

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 08/03/2023 - 1:03pm

In 2023 the US and Canada have sold nearly 830 million tickets which, though better than 2020’s 220 million, is far behind 2018’s 1.3 billion. It is largely due to the ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ marketing strategy which made both movies nonnegotiable must-sees.

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Omaha Ranked #1 For Corporate Retreats For Mid-Sized Metros

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 08/02/2023 - 2:00am

In a study by CoworkingCafe, Omaha ranked #1 for corporate retreats for mid-sized metros. They used eight different metrics to score cities, such as the number of team-building establishments, amount of co-working spaces available, and multiple different entertainment venues that can be found for visitors; they compared different cities in three different size categories based on population.

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Mama’s Attic Presents ‘Moments To Movement – Reflections On The 160 Year History Of The Emancipation Proclamation’

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 07/17/2023 - 5:00am

Mama’s Attic, located at 1941 So. 42nd St. Suite 108 on the first floor of Center Mall, opened in December 2020. (Tim Trudell / The Daily Record)

While it’s commonly believed slavery ended on Juneteenth, the date in June 1865 when the last slaves, in parts of Texas, learned the Civil War had ended and they were free people, the Reconstruction era brought new threats to new-found freedoms. The formation of the Ku Klux Klan, passage of the Black Code – legal slavery – and Jim Crow laws were among those challenges, according to a local museum exhibit dedicated to the history of the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Juvenile Reform In Douglas County

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 07/17/2023 - 4:00am

Douglas county has spent the last few years updating and improving their juvenile detention and rehabilitation. Over the last 15 years there has been a steady decline in rates of incarcerated youth in Douglas County, falling to record lows in 2021. Kim Hawekotte, the Deputy County Administrator for Juvenile Services in Douglas County, spoke on the work that Douglas County has been doing to reform juvenile detention and make it into a preventative and rehabilitative service instead.

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Does The Future Of Business And Thought Lie In The Hands Of AI?

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 07/11/2023 - 5:00am

The artist is dead. The accountant is out of a job. Lawyers are being replaced. Architects don’t need to sketch anymore. AI is here and slowly showing its ability to fill the shoes of any profession. As AI technology gets implemented in more avenues, we’re finding the places a machine can’t replace the human mind. The new technology has had a surge in the last year, but it is not new by any means.

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A Century Of Tradition: Grandma’s Heirloom Fruitcake Recipe

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 07/11/2023 - 4:00am

The Beatrice Bakery has been a staple in Beatrice, NE for almost six decades. After the Lantz brothers immigrated from Germany in 1917 – with their grandmother’s fruitcake recipe in hand – they opened a bakery in St. Louis, MO to share their beloved grandmother’s fruitcake recipe.

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Omaha Ranked 15th Best City For College Graduates

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 06/27/2023 - 4:00am

In a recent survey of the best cities for college graduates to start their careers in, Omaha ranked 15th in the large cities category. CoworkingCafe, an information hub for CRE news and reports, compared cities across the country based on employment, financial, and lifestyle opportunities in each city. The cities were split into three categories based on population: large cities with populations of over 400,000, small cities with populations less than 150,000, and medium cities sitting in-between.