Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/06/2025 - 12:00am
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.
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.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 10/30/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA — Based in the same South 24th Street storefront for over a half-century, the largest nonprofit serving the Omaha metro’s Latino community is undergoing a $10 million headquarters makeover and expansion.
The renovation of the Latino Center of the Midlands along a historic commercial corridor was kickstarted by a $2.8 million award from the State of Nebraska’s North and South Omaha Recovery Grant Program.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 10/30/2025 - 12:00am
The U.S. housing market has been ensnared in a growing affordability crisis for decades.
The problem has gotten dramatically worse in recent years. Since 2019, home prices are up 60% nationwide. A record-high 22 million renters are “cost-burdened” – spending more than 30% of their income on housing.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 10/23/2025 - 12:00am
Dangerous flooding has damaged neighborhoods in almost every state in 2025, leaving homes a muddy mess. In several hard-hit areas, it wasn’t the first time homeowners found themselves tearing out wet wallboard and piling waterlogged carpet by the curb.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 10/23/2025 - 12:00am
To Mike Schultz, Kansas ranchers are stuck in velvet handcuffs.
Walmart, the nation’s largest grocery retailer and private employer, recently expanded into the U.S. beef industry with its own processing plant in Olathe, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City. The opening of the Walmart-owned plant in July marked a turning point for the company and the nation’s cattle industry.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 10/23/2025 - 12:00am
To stand shoulder to shoulder with my countrymen against the injustices of the world, were thoughts of a little boy who was raised to put his hand over his heart for the flag; that the differences of liberals and conservatives would be put aside for the greater good, when the time came. Was it naivety of a young boy, or did times really change?
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 10/16/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA — Under names such as Czech Village, Silver Bull and Old Town Village, Tom McLeay has been buying up properties for more than a decade in the Little Bohemia neighborhood south of Nebraska’s largest downtown business district.