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Midwest ICE Prison In McCook Now Operational, First 200 Beds To Be Full By Thanksgiving

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/13/2025 - 12:00am

A group of demonstrators against using the McCook Work Ethic Camp prison as a federal detention center, hold signs outside the Red Willow County Courthouse in McCook, Neb., on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025.
(Nikos Frazier / Omaha World-Herald via AP)

LINCOLN — Nebraska’s McCook prison for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees is now operational, with the first migrants having arrived this week, Gov. Jim Pillen confirmed last Thursday.

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Trump Was Already Cutting Low-Income Energy Assistance – The Shutdown Is Making Things Worse As Cold Weather Arrives

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/13/2025 - 12:00am

As fall turns to winter and temperatures begin to drop, millions of people across the U.S. will struggle to pay their rising energy bills. The government shutdown is making matters even worse: Several states have pushed back the start of their winter energy assistance because their federally allocated funds had yet to show up.

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For The First Time, Catholic Sisters Return Land To A Tribal Nation

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/13/2025 - 12:00am

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A State Public Lands Commissioner Grapples With Shifting Federal Policies

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/13/2025 - 12:00am

The Trump administration has proposed significantly shifting management of the nation’s public lands toward producing more revenue. President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum have issued orders aimed at expediting energy production on federal lands. Burgum has repeatedly referred to federal lands as America’s “balance sheet,” pushing for increased oil and gas extraction, logging and mining.

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Malcolm X Birthsite Transformation Moves Forward; Master Site Design Team Identified

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/06/2025 - 12:00am

Shown is an aerial view of the current Malcolm X memorial campus marking his childhood home in North Omaha. The site is to be transformed with the help of a $20 million state grant. The redevelopment vision, more than a decade in the making, took a step forward with selection of a global firm to create a master site plan.
(Courtesy of Loud Nerd)

OMAHA — The Malcolm X Cultural Center redevelopment project in North Omaha has taken a key step forward with the selection of a San Francisco-based architecture and design firm to lead planning and transformation of the 17-acre site that marks the birthplace of the slain human rights leader.

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Mathew 23:23

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/06/2025 - 12:00am

Principal and principle: the difference between the words is a letter at the end. In elementary school, a distinct memory of the head of my school telling kids just how easy it was to spot the difference between the words: his spelling ended in “pal," that's how you could tell the difference, because he was our friend.

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Private Equity Firms Are Snapping Up Mobile Home Parks − And Driving Out The Residents Who Can Least Afford To Lose Them

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/06/2025 - 12:00am

Watching the TV in their trailer house home at the U.S. Wheelus air base in Libya, about seven miles east of Tripoli on Feb. 19, 1959, are Mrs. Betty Wood, of Tampa, Florida, her son Phillip, eldest daughter Bonnie Jo, and the youngest daughter Cheryl Ann.
(Jim Pringle / AP Photo)

One of America’s most affordable paths to homeownership is slipping away.

At manufactured home parks – sometimes called trailer parks or mobile home parks – rents are rapidly rising due to large-scale buyouts by private equity firms.

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‘It Is A Crisis’: Mayors Share How Grappling With Housing Has Shaped Their Jobs

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/06/2025 - 12:00am

A coalition of Georgia housing rights organizations build a makeshift home outside the state Capitol in March to promote a tax credit bill that would save money on home construction expenses for nonprofits. Mayors across the country say the housing crisis has become one of their most important challenges.
(Ross Williams / Georgia Recorder)

In U.S. cities big and small, mayors are finding their tenures shaped by housing shortages, and efforts to build more homes, so that people of any income can afford a place to live.

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Running Away, To The Death Of Free Speech.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 10/30/2025 - 12:00am

Over the past handful of years, I have spoken with progressives across coffee tables or bar tops, and when talking about the state of affairs in the United States. Many of whom spoke about which countries were the best to emigrate to, which were the most ‘forward thinking’ or ‘accepting’ of their particular needs or political desires.

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After Reopening, Joslyn Art Museum Breaks Visitor Records, Earns National Acclaim

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 10/30/2025 - 12:00am

Architects of the Hawks Pavilion wanted to make it appear that the building is floating. Accomplishing that, project manager Kevin Vrooman said, required a complex steel structure. The second floor is suspended from above, and large steel cantilevers extend 40 feet out and above the building’s main level, allowing covered access at the main entrance and the exit to the sculpture gardens.
(Courtesy photo)

Jack Becker sees it when visitors lounge on the Joslyn Art Museum’s grand steps, built nearly a century ago, and gawk up at the museum’s new addition.