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Running Away, To The Death Of Free Speech.

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.

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After Reopening, Joslyn Art Museum Breaks Visitor Records, Earns National Acclaim

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 10/30/2025 - 12:00am

Architects of the Hawks Pavilion wanted to make it appear that the building is floating. Accomplishing that, project manager Kevin Vrooman said, required a complex steel structure. The second floor is suspended from above, and large steel cantilevers extend 40 feet out and above the building’s main level, allowing covered access at the main entrance and the exit to the sculpture gardens.
(Courtesy photo)

Jack Becker sees it when visitors lounge on the Joslyn Art Museum’s grand steps, built nearly a century ago, and gawk up at the museum’s new addition.

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State Grant Kicks Off $10M Expansion And Remodel For Omaha Latino Center

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.

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The Trump Administration’s Anti-Immigrant Housing Policy Reflects A Long History Of Xenophobia In Public Housing

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.

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Walmart Looks To Tighten Its Grip On The Beef Supply Chain

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 10/23/2025 - 12:00am

Walmart has built a beef processing facility in Olathe, Kansas. The opening of the plant in July marked a turning point for the company and the nation’s cattle industry.
(David Eulitt / Investigate Midwest)

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.

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Manipulation Of Social Reality

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?

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$200 Rent, District Supe As Landlord: Affordable Teacher Housing Is On The Rise

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 10/23/2025 - 12:00am

$200 Rent, District Supe as Landlord: Affordable Teacher Housing Is on the Rise

As housing prices spike, more districts are building teacher homes to attract young, lower-paid school staffers and help keep those they already have.

By Lauren Wagner

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FEMA Buyouts Vs. Risky Real Estate: New Maps Reveal Post-Flood Migration Patterns Across The US

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 10/23/2025 - 12:00am

FEMA’s buyout programs have helped homeowners and communities across the U.S., in almost every state.
(James R. Elliott / The Conversation)

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.

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$40M Little Bo Village Project Aims To Be A ‘Front Door’ To Nebraska’s Largest Downtown

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 10/16/2025 - 12:00am

View of the future renovated Goose building, at 13th and William Streets, is a cornerstone of a cluster of new development coming to Little Bohemia south of downtown Omaha. This is a view looking north toward downtown. The developer is hoping it will add the allure of the city’s urban core, help address “brain drain” problem and job growth lag of the metro area.
(Courtesy of 1×2 Architecture)

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.

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Cyberpunk Now

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 10/16/2025 - 12:00am

While Mythology could be rooted in the historical past (the ancient city of Troy from the story of the “Trojan War" existed, for example, whether or not there was a human named Achilles who was dipped in a river in Hell is debatable). Those ancient stories eventually became fables; fables themselves are stories which have a moral lesson or a lesson on safety. To continue to expand on this, the reverse has become true with science-fiction.