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Mathew 23:23

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/06/2025 - 12:00am

Principal and principle: the difference between the words is a letter at the end. In elementary school, a distinct memory of the head of my school telling kids just how easy it was to spot the difference between the words: his spelling ended in “pal," that's how you could tell the difference, because he was our friend.

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Private Equity Firms Are Snapping Up Mobile Home Parks − And Driving Out The Residents Who Can Least Afford To Lose Them

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/06/2025 - 12:00am

Watching the TV in their trailer house home at the U.S. Wheelus air base in Libya, about seven miles east of Tripoli on Feb. 19, 1959, are Mrs. Betty Wood, of Tampa, Florida, her son Phillip, eldest daughter Bonnie Jo, and the youngest daughter Cheryl Ann.
(Jim Pringle / AP Photo)

One of America’s most affordable paths to homeownership is slipping away.

At manufactured home parks – sometimes called trailer parks or mobile home parks – rents are rapidly rising due to large-scale buyouts by private equity firms.

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‘It Is A Crisis’: Mayors Share How Grappling With Housing Has Shaped Their Jobs

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/06/2025 - 12:00am

A coalition of Georgia housing rights organizations build a makeshift home outside the state Capitol in March to promote a tax credit bill that would save money on home construction expenses for nonprofits. Mayors across the country say the housing crisis has become one of their most important challenges.
(Ross Williams / Georgia Recorder)

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.

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Malcolm X Birthsite Transformation Moves Forward; Master Site Design Team Identified

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/06/2025 - 12:00am

Shown is an aerial view of the current Malcolm X memorial campus marking his childhood home in North Omaha. The site is to be transformed with the help of a $20 million state grant. The redevelopment vision, more than a decade in the making, took a step forward with selection of a global firm to create a master site plan.
(Courtesy of Loud Nerd)

OMAHA — The Malcolm X Cultural Center redevelopment project in North Omaha has taken a key step forward with the selection of a San Francisco-based architecture and design firm to lead planning and transformation of the 17-acre site that marks the birthplace of the slain human rights leader.

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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?