Profiles
After being appointed to the New York City Art Commission, she was invited to the annual dinner at a men’s club in New York. The invitation said “Black Tie,” so she wore a black evening gown with a...
Gavin Newsom on July 12, 2024. (Juliana Yamada / AP Photo, Pool)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he has President Joe Biden's back. It's almost enough for me to take him off my list of possible successors to the incumbent president. Having Biden's back is not a...
From left: my husband Greg DeWall, children Leo and Josephine DeWall, and myself with former Nebraska Governor and current U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts on the day he signed into law a Nebraska bill protecting the rights of disabled parents in 2018. ( Stacy Cervenka courtesy photo)
With Mother’s Day recently passed and Father’s Day just around the corner, families across the United States are celebrating the dedication, love, and sacrifice that parents show their children and...
BlueBarn Theatre debuted ““More of a Heart”” on March 28, 2024. The play was written by Dave Osmundsen. The play explores family dynamics and what it means to truly communicate. Zachary is a college...
To understand the somewhat divisive and misunderstood concept of gerrymandering that has real consequences in parts of the United States, it helps to begin with the concept from the decisively...
Today’s News
WEST POINT, Nebraska — Gov. Jim Pillen and the Nebraska Department of Agriculture announced new regulations Thursday against “lab-grown meat” or “fake meat,” with Pillen eyeing 2025 legislation to...
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Ironic, isn’t it, that a system that provides so many advantages for its citizens also provides the means of its own demise.
Unlike nearly every other system of government that came before it, U.S....
DENVER (AP) — A man sitting in his van after fixing a coffee machine inside a supermarket in the college town of Boulder was the first person killed. In just over a minute, nine more people died in a...
A Nebraska law that combined abortion restrictions with another measure to limit gender-affirming health care for minors does not violate a state constitutional amendment requiring bills to stick to a single subject, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday, July 26, 2024. (Kenneth Ferriera / Lincoln Journal Star via AP)
LINCOLN — Two was company and three is now a crowd of last-minute lawsuits filed in Nebraska against competing abortion amendment proposals.
More than 20 doctors supporting an abortion-rights...
The U.S. Supreme Court is seen Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (Jose Luis Magana / AP Photo)
Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election not only failed, but some of them also rested on a misreading of the U.S. Constitution, as our new analysis argues....
This Week's News
09/06/2024 - 7:00am
WEST POINT, Nebraska — Gov. Jim Pillen and the Nebraska Department of Agriculture announced new regulations Thursday against “lab-grown meat” or “fake meat,” with Pillen eyeing 2025 legislation to prohibit the sale of such products within the state...
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09/06/2024 - 6:00am
Ironic, isn’t it, that a system that provides so many advantages for its citizens also provides the means of its own demise.
Unlike nearly every other system of government that came before it, U.S. democracy offered its citizens individual freedom,...
09/06/2024 - 5:00am
DENVER (AP) — A man sitting in his van after fixing a coffee machine inside a supermarket in the college town of Boulder was the first person killed. In just over a minute, nine more people died in a barrage of gunfire inside and outside the store...
A Nebraska law that combined abortion restrictions with another measure to limit gender-affirming health care for minors does not violate a state constitutional amendment requiring bills to stick to a single subject, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday, July 26, 2024. (Kenneth Ferriera / Lincoln Journal Star via AP)
09/06/2024 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — Two was company and three is now a crowd of last-minute lawsuits filed in Nebraska against competing abortion amendment proposals.
More than 20 doctors supporting an abortion-rights amendment sued Friday to press the Nebraska Supreme Court...
The U.S. Supreme Court is seen Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (Jose Luis Magana / AP Photo)
09/06/2024 - 3:00am
Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election not only failed, but some of them also rested on a misreading of the U.S. Constitution, as our new analysis argues. The relevant constitutional provision dates back to...
09/06/2024 - 1:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A decision on whether to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in the U.S. won't come until after the November presidential election, a timeline that raises the chances it could be a potent political issue in the closely...
At 16th and Emmet Streets in Omaha, supporters of housing plan by Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris’ housing plan gather for a news conference. From (left) are Precious McKesson, executive director of the Nebraska Democratic Party; State Sen. Terrell McKinney of Omaha; Don Curry, housing developer and entrepreneur; and Kimara Snipes, community organizer. (Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)
09/05/2024 - 7:00am
OMAHA — A shortage of safe and affordable housing pushed Kimara Snipes to make what she said was one of her toughest decisions.
At the time, she was on the Omaha Public Schools Board and needed to get out of the South Omaha rental home that was “...
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09/05/2024 - 6:00am
To Be the Leaders of Tomorrow, Students Need to Learn Essential Skills — Today
Meuers: Service learning gives young people the chance to address real community issues and make needed change with curiosity, creativity and empathy.
By Amy Meuers
This...
09/05/2024 - 5:00am
Modern buildings tend to take electricity and air conditioning for granted. They often have glass facades and windows that can’t be opened. And when the power goes out for days in the middle of a heat wave, as the Houston area experienced in July...
09/05/2024 - 3:00am
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Sharon Ellison and Fred Jernigan spent four days hiking and camping from one end of the Grand Canyon to the other, with plans to relax at a hotel within the park on Thursday. But when they reemerged from the...
North Dakota Geologic Survey Paleontologist Jeff Person sits behind a 7-foot mammoth tusk on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, at the Geologic Survey office in Bismarck, N.D. Coal miners unearthed the tusk in May 2023 at the Freedom Mine near Beulah, North Dakota. Paleontologists subsequently discovered other mammoth bones at the site. The tusk and other bones are wrapped in plastic for their protection as the paleontologists work to preserve them. (Jack Dura / AP Photo)
09/05/2024 - 2:00am
Some mammoth bones have been gnawing at North Dakota State Geologist Ed Murphy for more than 35 years.
Murphy recently described for the North Dakota Industrial Commission how he became aware of a find of mammoth bones in 1988. He updated the...
Fourteen-month-old J.C. Bell (left)falls fast asleep after lunch at the Wylie United Methodist Child Development Center. (Victor Cristales / Abilene Reporter-News / AP Photo)
09/04/2024 - 8:37am
LINCOLN — Child care advocates on Tuesday launched a campaign to build awareness of a new Nebraska tax credit package described by one expert as a state and national milestone for both the industry and parents.
“This is the most expansive and most...
09/04/2024 - 8:35am
KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — On a residential block in upstate New York, college students dig and sift backyard dirt as part of an archaeological project that could provide insights into the lives of African Americans buried there centuries ago.
This spot...
A night view shows the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Penn., March 30, 1979. (R.C. Greenawalt / AP Photo
09/04/2024 - 8:31am
PITTSBURGH -- What if we began looking at nuclear energy in a different way? What if those new perspectives worked and brought people from all sides of the energy equation together for the first time in a generation?
That is the genesis behind...
09/04/2024 - 8:30am
The group of teachers had a straightforward but daunting assignment before them: How could Cody-Kilgore, a small district nestled in the Nebraska Sandhills, buck the trend of rural decline and revitalize the school?
Teachers Stacey Adamson and...
09/03/2024 - 7:00am
LINCOLN — Sydney Hutchinson had a lifelong dream to attend a veterinary program offered in Nebraska and Iowa for her doctoral medicine degree, but in February she was on track to attend Kansas State University instead.
Hutchinson said while it wasn...
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09/03/2024 - 6:00am
As the dog days of late August drag on, seemingly beyond their allotted 24 hours, Nebraskans know what to expect in the lethargy brought on by endless heat and humidity.
School starts.
While asking young minds to focus in the swelter may seem...
Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Va., uses an AI program on her iPad at her home in Leesburg, Va., Friday, July 19, 2024. A rare neurological disease robbed Wexton of her ability to speak clearly. With the help of a powerful artificial intelligence program, the Virginia Democrat will use a clone of her voice to deliver what is believed to be the first speech on the House floor ever given via a voice cloned by artificial intelligence, thrusting Wexton into a broader debate about artificial intelligence. (John McDonnell / AP Photo)
09/03/2024 - 5:00am
A vast majority of Americans feel negatively about artificial intelligence and how it will impact their futures, though they also report they don’t fully understand how and why the technology is currently being used.
The sentiments came from a...
09/03/2024 - 4:00am
If you live in Omaha, use social media and have even a passing interest in food, you’ve most likely already seen photos of Clio, the latest in a series of new concepts opened by Flagship Restaurant Group in downtown Omaha.
I wracked my brain for...
Shoppers walk in the lot of a Lowe's home improvement store in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. (Matt Rourke / AP Photo)
09/03/2024 - 3:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — Home improvement chain Lowe’s is scaling back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, joining the ranks of several other companies that altered their programs since the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action in college...
09/02/2024 - 7:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The high cost of caring for children and the elderly has forced women out of the workforce, devastated family finances and left professional caretakers in low-wage jobs — all while slowing economic growth.
That families are...
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to marching band members at Liberty County High School in Hinesville, Ga., Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (Jacquelyn Martin / AP Photo)
09/02/2024 - 6:00am
What Kamala Harris has managed to do in a month is totally redefine herself in the eyes of American voters. She went from being a mostly disapproved of vice president to being a positively viewed candidate in the space of four weeks. What it proves...
09/02/2024 - 5:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska Supreme Court justices on Wednesday peppered lawyers from the ACLU and the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office with questions about whether the Legislature has the constitutional authority to restore the voting rights of people who...
Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz celebrates with his family during the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, in Chicago. (Brynn Anderson / AP Photo
09/02/2024 - 4:00am
The broader scope of fertility treatments entered the spotlight last week after Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and his wife, Gwen, shared that they had children through a less commonly known procedure.
Since Vice President Kamala Harris selected Gov. Walz...
09/02/2024 - 3:00am
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The Harris-Walz campaign is turning its attention to Georgia with a bus tour that starts Wednesday — but they’re staying...
