Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/20/2025 - 12:00am
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford Motor Co.’s new headquarters, the carmaker's first central office switch since Dwight Eisenhower was president, is double the size of its old one with room for twice as many employees.
The new HQ has seven restaurants as part of a 160,000-square-foot (14,864 square-meter) food hall, office space, design studios and fabrication shops.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/20/2025 - 12:00am
Alaska Owns Dozens of Deteriorating Schools. Now It Wants Under-Resourced Districts to Take Them On.
For more than a decade, the Kuspuk School District asked Alaska’s education department for the money to fix a rotting elementary school. The school, in the small and predominantly Indigenous community of Aniak in western Alaska, was in deep need of repairs. The nearby Kuskokwim river had flooded the 88-year-old building several times. The walls were moldy. Sewage was leaking into a space below the school’s kitchen.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/20/2025 - 12:00am
As America’s aging roads fall further behind on much-needed repairs, cities and states are turning to artificial intelligence to spot the worst hazards and decide which fixes should come first.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/13/2025 - 12:00am
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.
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.
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.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/06/2025 - 12:00am
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.
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.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/06/2025 - 12:00am
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.