Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 05/22/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — A Nebraska charitable foundation is stepping up to promote lesser-known museums and historical sites in the state.
“WanderNebraska,” a project of the Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation, is promoting visits to 213 museums, libraries and notable attractions this year via brochures, billboards, bus tours and prizes for visiting.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 05/22/2025 - 12:00am
In 1918, as World War I intensified overseas, the U.S. government embarked on a radical experiment: It quietly became the nation’s largest housing developer, designing and constructing more than 80 new communities across 26 states in just two years.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 05/15/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA — Omaha’s Creighton University campus is soon to start building “one of the most sweeping projects” in its nearly 150-year history: a 251,500-square-foot gathering space with a stage, amphitheater and price tag of up to $25 million.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 05/15/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA — Backhoes digging out a future apartment site in Omaha’s urban core unearthed some unexpected remnants of an old dairy factory that once distributed milk to doorsteps via horse-drawn wagons.
Among the surprises: mysterious tunnels; intact ice cream bottle lids that spilled out when a vault was struck and an entire foundation of a brick building.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 05/08/2025 - 1:28pm
Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months. More than 4,000 staff vacancies. A $3 billion repair backlog.
And now, a stunning directive from President Donald Trump for the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons to “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” — the notorious penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay that last held inmates more than 60 years ago.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 05/08/2025 - 1:25pm
Construction costs have surged in recent years, pushing homeownership further out of reach for many Americans. But this isn’t a new concern: In 1978, the U.S. Government Accountability Office warned that rising costs were threatening the American dream – at a time when the median home price was just US$44,300, less than three times the median household income. Today, that figure has climbed past $419,000, more than five times what the median American makes.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 05/08/2025 - 1:22pm
LINCOLN — State government is paying about 37% more to lease commercial office space for employees today than five years ago — a hike from $16 million to $22 million that the Nebraska state auditor described Monday as “far more than necessary.”