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The Bloating Bog: Washington

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 12/04/2025 - 12:00am

Those ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ are at it again, at their home in The Swamp, where, by diktat and threat of force, our tax money is channeled. While all the rest of us in the United States work and spend our dimes, churning the economy, the money we send for the upkeep of our roads and schools, and military, seems to fall into greasy and greedy hands.

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Port Authority Leaders Say State Is Withholding Funds, Slowing Economic Progress In Northeast Omaha

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 12/04/2025 - 12:00am

OMAHA — An Omaha entity tasked with helping revive some of the most depressed neighborhoods in Nebraska is at odds with state officials it said are refusing to release $11 million in state funds needed for programming.

The Omaha Inland Port Authority, which was authorized by state law and created by the city to promote economic development in northeast Omaha, said it may have to turn to legal action.

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Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up The Tab.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 12/04/2025 - 12:00am

Owner Stan Kroenke of the Los Angeles Rams and one of America’s largest property owners, stands on the sideline before the Rams play against the San Francisco 49ers in an NFL football game, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, in Santa Clara, Calif.
(Jeff Lewis / AP Photo)

Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab.

Stan Kroenke doesn’t need federal help to make a business flourish. He is worth an estimated $20 billion, a fortune that has allowed him to become one of America’s largest property owners and afforded him stakes in storied sports franchises, including the Denver Nuggets and England’s Arsenal soccer club.

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Competition For Nebraska’s ‘Carhenge’ Rises Near South Dakota’s Badlands

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 12/04/2025 - 12:00am

An aerial view of “Firehenge,” the viral marketing effort of a Rapid City brewer with Nebraska ties along Interstate 90 in South Dakota near Kadoka.
(Courtesy of Firehouse Brewing Co.)

KADOKA, S.D. — Nebraska’s quirky replica of England’s prehistoric Stonehenge, “Carhenge,” is about to get some new competition in a neighboring state. And a former Nebraskan is behind it.

Rising from a dusty, prairie ridge along Interstate 90 near this Badlands-area town is a collection of firetrucks dubbed “Firehenge.”

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Nebraskans Lament Tyson Decision To Close Lexington Plant With 3,200 Workers

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/27/2025 - 12:00am

LINCOLN — In a blow to the local economy of Lexington, Nebraska, Tyson Foods announced that it is closing the town’s longtime Tyson beef plant that employed about 3,200 people.

The Arkansas-based Tyson said in a statement that changes were designed to “right-size” its beef business and position it for long-term success.

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The Smallest Tear

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/27/2025 - 12:00am

Like a sleeping giant whose body is hidden just beneath dark waves, the base nature of mankind has been stirring the world over. One of the giant’s hands has come out of the midnight sea to grip the earth to leverage it better to stand. That hand crushes the nation of Ukraine under the hum of soulless drones committing soulless murder.

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Wi-Fi Woes: State May Return $350M In Fed Funding Meant To Boost Nebraskans’ Broadband

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/27/2025 - 12:00am

When Yvonne and Gregg Poole moved to a property west of Cortland over 20 years ago, they intended to give the old buildings on the land new life. They converted the chicken coop into a guest house. They transformed a grain elevator into a workshop. Once they moved on to the barn, requests started to come in to rent the space, and what started as a passion project became a small business.

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Corporate Investment In Residential Housing May Be Another Hurdle For First-Time Buyers

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/27/2025 - 12:00am

As corporate ownership of residential property across the country rises nationwide, researchers from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Center for Geospatial Solutions, which is housed at the institute, warn this rising trend has complicated the housing market for first-time buyers.

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Data Center Growth Drives Locals To Fight For More Say

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/20/2025 - 12:00am

Cars drive past data centers that house computer servers and hardware required to support modern internet use, such as artificial intelligence, in Ashburn, Virginia, July 16, 2023.
(Ted Shaffrey / AP Photo)

When local activist Frank Arcoleo found out over the summer that a data center was coming to his neighborhood in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he said he was furious. There’d been no votes or public hearings.

The first phase of the data center project under development there only required administrative approval from a few city officials, based on the building permit application and state laws.

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Massacres In Sudan

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/20/2025 - 12:00am

Through America suffers her blind, and irreverent children who believe the differences of their disputes are irrecoverable, for the last two and a half years mass-killings have gone on in a civil-war in the nation of Sudan. So savage is this conflict that over twelve million people have been forced to take refuge in other parts of Sudan, and 4 million have fled to other nations to avoid what is only described as wanton violence and total crimes against humanity. (AP News)