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Nebraska Gov. Pillen Issues ‘Save-The-Date’ For Special Session On Property Taxes

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 06/20/2024 - 3:00am

LINCOLN — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen offered one of the clearest timelines yet Monday for when he might call a special session on property tax relief this summer.

“To any state senator reading this — clear your schedule from July 26 to August 15,” Pillen wrote in his latest column. “We have the people’s work to do.”

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Unprecedented Moves Seek To Ramp Up Affordable Housing Options In Omaha

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 06/13/2024 - 7:00am

The nine-house residential development called Curtis Corner at 49th Street and Curtis Avenue is to be completed by the summer’s end. It is developed by Phillip McClain, a graduate of the Spark Developer Academy that’s designed to boost emerging developers from minority populations.
(Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)

OMAHA — A busload of budding developers snaked through some of the city’s oldest neighborhoods this week, guided by an urban planner who pointed out abandoned lots freshly prepared for new housing thanks to a state “shovel-ready” grant.

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Civics Gives Us Informed Choices

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 06/13/2024 - 6:00am

Recent events underscore the idea that we should bring back civics as a required subject. Or, perhaps even better, maybe we should extend the requirement beyond classrooms and into the very fabric of American life, where we get to make informed choices.

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How Do You Build Tunnels And Bridges Underwater? A Geotechnical Engineer Explains The Construction Tricks

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 06/13/2024 - 4:00am

When I was a kid, I discovered a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip that posed one of my own burning questions: How do they know the load limit on bridges? Calvin’s dad (incorrectly) tells him, “They drive bigger and bigger trucks over it until it breaks. Then they weigh the last truck and rebuild the bridge.”

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Large Chunk Of Wyoming's Teton Pass Road Collapses; Unclear How Quickly It Can Be Rebuilt

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 06/13/2024 - 1:00am

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — A large chunk of a twisting mountain pass road collapsed in Wyoming, authorities said Saturday, leaving a gaping chasm in the highway and severing a well-traveled commuter link between small towns in eastern Idaho and the tourist destination of Jackson.

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Inflation's Silent Impact On American Family Businesses

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 06/06/2024 - 6:00am

MURRYSVILLE, Pennsylvania -- Seventy years after the Ferri family moved its grocery store from Turtle Creek to this Westmoreland County town, the family is calling it quits. The pressures of inflation and the unexpected closing of the Mainline Pharmacy, the independent pharmaceutical located inside their iconic structure, were the final two straws.

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Controversy Arises Over Process, Mayoral Picks For Omaha’s First-Ever Inland Port Authority Board

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 06/06/2024 - 6:00am

State Sen. Justin Wayne of Omaha.
(Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)

OMAHA — The appointment of the first-ever Omaha Inland Port Authority board, poised to happen Tuesday, should trigger a start on multiple projects within a roughly 300-acre zone in northeast Omaha.

Among initiatives that the new nine-member body — enabled by state law to spur economic development — is expected to oversee:

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North Dakota Supreme Court Sides With Summit In Landowner Dispute

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 06/06/2024 - 4:00am

The North Dakota Supreme Court has ruled in favor of pipeline company Summit Carbon Solutions in a dispute with landowners over the right to access properties to survey the land.

The ruling released Thursday affirms a lower court ruling that the pipeline company did not need permission from landowners before accessing property to determine a possible route.

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As Pharmacies Shutter, Some Western States, Black And Latino Communities Are Left Behind

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 06/06/2024 - 3:00am

Carmen Lopez works at Bert’s Pharmacy in Elizabeth, N.J., on May 21, 2024. The business is located in an ZIP code where nearly 70% of the residents are Hispanic.
(Shelby Lum / AP Photo)

Opening stores used to mean everything to pharmacy chains.

CVS Health once boasted of opening or buying more than 2,900 locations in a five-year period. Now it’s shuttering hundreds, while Walgreens, Rite Aid and independent drugstores also pull back.

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Panama Prepares To Evacuate First Island In Face Of Rising Sea Levels

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 06/06/2024 - 2:00am

Buildings cover Gardi Sugdub Island, part of San Blas archipelago off Panama’s Caribbean coast, Saturday, May 25, 2024
(Matías Delacroix / AP Photo)

GARDI SUGDUB, Panama (AP) — On a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast, about 300 families are packing their belongings in preparation for a dramatic change. Generations of Gunas who have grown up on Gardi Sugdub in a life dedicated to the sea and tourism will trade that next week for the mainland’s solid ground.

They go voluntarily — sort of.