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The Flying Nun: Sister Stephanie, 81, Rappels Down Omaha Building As She Lifts Up City’s Neediest

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 06/04/2025 - 12:00am

Sister Stephanie Matcha, 81, raised more than $3,000 as part of a fundraiser to support the Siena Francis House when she rappelled down the side of The Highline Apartments in downtown Omaha on May 3.
(Anna Reed / Flatwater Free Press)

The people waiting their turn to rappel down the 17-story Highline Apartments building had strict instructions: Don’t come up to the roof until we come get you.

Most of the group, assembled there for a fundraiser, seemed content to hang back in the designated waiting area half a flight of stairs below the roof, where they’d eventually step over the edge into the blue sky high above downtown Omaha.

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Nebraskans Have A Couple Of Questions

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 06/04/2025 - 12:00am

Welcome to another “What If?” press conference, questions for Nebraska’s congressional delegation in Washington. Since our last session, the White House has tried to shutter the U.S. Department of Education, our tariff “policy” resembles a yo-yo, the inaptly-named “big, beautiful bill” has uglied up the nation’s balance sheet, and curious Americans have taken to looking up both “emoluments” and “original sin.”

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Making Eye Contact And Small Talk With Strangers Is More Than Just Being Polite − The Social Benefits Of Psychological Generosity

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 06/04/2025 - 12:00am

How much do you engage with others when you’re out in public? Lots of people don’t actually engage with others much at all. Think of commuters on public transportation staring down at their phones with earbuds firmly in place.

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How Redefining Just One Word Could Strip The Endangered Species Act’s Ability To Protect Vital Habitat

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 06/04/2025 - 12:00am

Critical habitat throughout the U.S., including many coastlines and mountain areas. Note: Alaska is not to scale.
(Courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out their habitat.

But that’s exactly what the Trump administration is proposing to do by changing how one word in the Endangered Species Act is interpreted: harm.

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One Of State’s Oldest Trees — Tourist Attraction ‘Old Wolf Oak’ — Has Died

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 06/04/2025 - 12:00am

LINCOLN — One of Nebraska’s oldest trees has died, and officials are blaming drought conditions.

The “Old Wolf Oak,” a burr oak with a 9.8-foot circumference located along a hiking trail at Ponca State Park, was estimated to be more than 380 years old.

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Hundreds Of ‘DEI’ Books Are Back At The Naval Academy. An Alum And A Bookshop Fought Their Removal.

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Desperate For Teachers, Nebraska Schools Turn Abroad — To The Philippines

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/28/2025 - 12:00am

Dorina Ramos passes out a worksheet while teaching a lesson in a physical science class in Schuyler, Neb., on May 2, 2025. A group of teachers from the Philippines moved to Schuyler to teach under H-1B visas this year.
(Rebecca S. Gratz / Flatwater Free Press)

SCHUYLER — In a classroom 7,903 miles from home, Dorina Ramos counts down from five.

“Five,” Ramos says in her clear and practiced English, as a teenager passing around handfuls of chips sits back at his desk.

“Four.” A lingering high schooler stores his school-issued iPad away in a classroom cabinet.

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The Voices We Don’t Hear: Teachers Who Gave Up

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The Voices We Don’t Hear: Teachers Who Gave Up

Pondiscio: So many earnest, well-intended people want to teach but find the job untenable. We should hear what they have to say and learn from them.

By Robert Pondiscio

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Show Of Support For Immigrants And Refugees Gets Loud On Omaha’s South 24th Street

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Rallygoers wave at passing cars that honk and give thumbs up to the “Stand in Solidarity” event Thursday afternoon in South Omaha.
(Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)

OMAHA — Dozens packed a popular plaza on South Omaha’s Latino-dominated commercial corridor Thursday afternoon, carrying immigrant-friendly signs and waving bumper stickers that read: Who would Jesus deport?

“Stand in Solidarity” rallygoers heard from allies at the top of 10 organizations such as the Nebraska AFL-CIO labor union, Nebraska Farmers Union and Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce.

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Urban Fires Can Mean Long Trips For Helicopters To Get Water. One Firefighter Had A Better Idea

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/28/2025 - 12:00am

CABAZON, Calif. (AP) — Mark Whaling and a crew raced up and down a hill in a tanker truck as they battled a wildfire in Los Angeles County, scrambling to get water from a street hydrant in time to stay ahead of flames moving up a ridge. A helicopter flew in to drop water, but it had to fly a long distance to refill — and a fire that might have been stopped went on to destroy homes.

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The Flying Nun: Sister Stephanie, 81, Rappels Down Omaha Building As She Lifts Up City’s Neediest

Nebraskans Have A Couple Of Questions

Making Eye Contact And Small Talk With Strangers Is More Than Just Being Polite − The Social Benefits Of Psychological Generosity

How Redefining Just One Word Could Strip The Endangered Species Act’s Ability To Protect Vital Habitat

One Of State’s Oldest Trees — Tourist Attraction ‘Old Wolf Oak’ — Has Died

Hundreds Of ‘DEI’ Books Are Back At The Naval Academy. An Alum And A Bookshop Fought Their Removal.

Desperate For Teachers, Nebraska Schools Turn Abroad — To The Philippines

The Voices We Don’t Hear: Teachers Who Gave Up

The Voices We Don’t Hear: Teachers Who Gave Up

Pondiscio: So many earnest, well-intended people want to teach but find the job untenable. We should hear what they have to say and learn from them.

Show Of Support For Immigrants And Refugees Gets Loud On Omaha’s South 24th Street

Urban Fires Can Mean Long Trips For Helicopters To Get Water. One Firefighter Had A Better Idea

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