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Rising Electricity Demand Could Bring Three Mile Island And Other Prematurely Shuttered Nuclear Plants Back To Life

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 10/03/2024 - 3:00am

The Three Mile Island nuclear power generating station shown here Monday, March 28, 2011.
(Bradley C Bower / AP Photo

Constellation, an energy company that provides electricity and natural gas to customers in 16 states and Washington, announced on Sept. 20, 2024, that it plans to restore and restart Unit 1 at Three Mile Island, a nuclear plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania, that was shut down in 2019. Microsoft has signed a 20-year agreement to purchase electricity generated by the plant to offset power demand from its data centers in the mid-Atlantic region.

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Urban Communities That Lack Shade Sizzle When It's Hot. Trees Are A Climate Change Solution

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 10/03/2024 - 2:00am

DETROIT (AP) — Along a busy road in west Detroit, there's little respite from the sun for residents stopping for gasoline, attending places of worship or bringing children to daycare. But a budding canopy of trees planted this year will change the look and feel of this corridor.

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Nebraska Tribe Pays $65K A Year To Rent Land On Its Own Reservation. It Wants It Back.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 09/26/2024 - 7:00am

In the past 15 years, the Santee Sioux tribe has prioritized buying back land on its reservation. Now, leaders would like to see land owned by the Board of Educational Lands and Funds transferred to the tribe.
(Jerry L Mennenga / Flatwater Free Press)

There’s a map tacked up on the wall in Kameron Runnels’ office – squared lines and small text showing who owns what pieces of the Santee Sioux reservation.

Six of the squares, big chunks of land, are labeled the same: “school land.”

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If It Ain’t Broke Don’t Fix It

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 09/26/2024 - 6:00am

One of the good things about writing this column for the Omaha Daily Record is while it may not have the widest reach, the people it does reach are important decision makers in the state.

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Gentrification Isn’t Inevitable − It Can Hinge On How Residents View Their Neighborhood

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 09/26/2024 - 5:00am

Gentrification has become a familiar story in cities across the United States. The story line typically goes this way: Middle- and upper-income people start moving into a lower-income or poor neighborhood. Housing prices rise in response, and longtime residents and businesses are driven out.

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Omaha Board Peppers Developers With Questions About Project In Line For $90M In State Funds

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 09/26/2024 - 4:00am

Boundaries of Omaha’s Inland Port Authority stretch about 300 acres.
(Courtesy of City of Omaha)

OMAHA — A $90 million plan to launch a business park near Omaha’s airport faced continued scrutiny Thursday from a board that must provide a letter of support for the publicly funded project in order for it to proceed.

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Who’s Buying Nebraska? Philly Organic Farm Is 2nd-Biggest Buyer Of Nebraska Farmland

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 09/19/2024 - 7:00am

Belltown Farms regional manager Eddie Clevenger walks through a field of no-till corn near Holstein on Wednesday, July 31. Belltown, a Philadelphia-based organic farm that operates in several states, spent $41 million buying Nebraska farmland between the years 2018 and 2022, making it the No. 2 buyer of Nebraska farmland by cost in that time frame.
(Laura Beahm / Flatwater Free Press)

ADAMS COUNTY — At first glance,the sight of this south-central Nebraska farm is not much different from its counterparts in the corn belt. But the corn here grows on a natural diet of animal manure. No synthetic fertilizer. No pesticides, either. The crop stands alongside alfalfa and trees in the corners of the fields.

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Does Donald Trump Really Believe He Won the Debate?

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 09/19/2024 - 6:00am

Ever since he walked into the "spin room" at the conclusion of Tuesday night's debate, Donald Trump has been claiming that he won the debate. Does he really believe that? Are his advisers so cowed, or delusional themselves, that they are feeding his own delusions? And what does that say about them -- and him?

The overnight polls -- the objective ones -- say otherwise.

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America’s Dairy Farms Are Disappearing, Down 95% Since The 1970s − Milk Price Rules Are One Reason Why

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 09/19/2024 - 5:00am

Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. “I remember when we had over 1,000 dairy farms in this county. Now we have less than 40,” Orr, an agriculture adviser for Greene County, Tennessee, told me with a tinge of sadness.

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A Short History Of The Rise, Fall And Return Of Detroit’s Michigan Central Station

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 09/19/2024 - 4:00am

Boosters hope the renovated Michigan Central Station, once a symbol of Detroit’s decline, will now signal its rebirth.
(Amy Sacka / The Conversation)

Detroit celebrated the reopening of its iconic railway station Michigan Central in June 2024 with a grand outdoor gala featuring an extravaganza of Detroit musical royalty – Diana Ross, Big Sean, Patti Smith, Jack White and Eminem – in the adjoining Roosevelt Park.

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Real Estate News

Rising Electricity Demand Could Bring Three Mile Island And Other Prematurely Shuttered Nuclear Plants Back To Life

Urban Communities That Lack Shade Sizzle When It's Hot. Trees Are A Climate Change Solution

Nebraska Tribe Pays $65K A Year To Rent Land On Its Own Reservation. It Wants It Back.

If It Ain’t Broke Don’t Fix It

Gentrification Isn’t Inevitable − It Can Hinge On How Residents View Their Neighborhood

Omaha Board Peppers Developers With Questions About Project In Line For $90M In State Funds

Who’s Buying Nebraska? Philly Organic Farm Is 2nd-Biggest Buyer Of Nebraska Farmland

Does Donald Trump Really Believe He Won the Debate?

America’s Dairy Farms Are Disappearing, Down 95% Since The 1970s − Milk Price Rules Are One Reason Why

A Short History Of The Rise, Fall And Return Of Detroit’s Michigan Central Station

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