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Rep. Don Bacon highlights House votes on Ukraine aid and Nebraska defense funding
Omaha City Wire - Nebraska
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July 19, 2025
Rep. Don Bacon, a member of the U.S. Congress representing Nebraska’s 2nd district since 2017, shared updates this week on key legislative actions and constituent engagement via his official Twitter account.On July 18, Bacon reported the House’s...
Nebraska Public Media faces funding cuts following rescission bill passage
KSNB Local 4 - Nebraska
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July 19, 2025
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Nancy Finken is the chief content officer with Nebraska Public Media she said the cuts to funding will hurt. “It’s a loss of nearly $4 million for Nebraska Public Media, and that represents about 16% of our operating budget....
$700M soybean crushing operation to start in Nebraska’s David City by late August
Nebraska Examiner
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July 19, 2025
LINCOLN — A new soybean crushing facility that owners say brings a $700 million investment to Nebraska’s David City and will support 80 jobs is set to launch commercial operations by the end of August. On a site that spans nearly 275 acres, the Ag...
Democrats Are Preparing a Deliberately Incomplete 2024 Election Autopsy
Rolling Stone
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July 19, 2025
The Democratic National Committee’s official 2024 postmortem will reportedly spend little time reviewing the Biden and Harris campaigns The Democratic Party is examining how it lost the 2024 election, but it apparently does not intend to spend...
Democrats’ 2024 Election Autopsy Will Reportedly Ignore Biden and Harris, and Instead Focus on ‘Actions Taken by Allied Groups’
Mediaite - New York
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July 19, 2025
AP Photo/Susan Walsh The Democratic National Committee is compiling an autopsy of the 2024 election that does not examine actions taken by former President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, The New York Times reported on Saturday. Biden...
2022: Correlation between aging and increasing government transfer dependency in Logan County?
Sandhills Today - Nebraska
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July 19, 2025
In 2022, Logan County received $7.8 million in government transfer payments, equivalent to $11,551 per capita. These payments—which include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and income maintenance—accounted for 21.9% of all personal income in...
Stolen election or following rules? UNO panel tosses student votes, hands presidency to losing slate
Nebraska Examiner
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July 19, 2025
OMAHA — The student commission in charge of elections at the University of Nebraska at Omaha invalidated this year’s winning ticket and disregarded the will of UNO’s student voters — an act almost inconceivable in U.S. elections but far more...
‘Down a rabbit hole’: Genealogy & Local History Room helps Nebraskans explore the past
The Reader - Nebraska
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July 19, 2025
Nearly 200,000 materials in the Omaha Public Library system will spend four years in limbo following the closure of the W. Dale Clark Main Library in 2022 until the new Central Library’s opens next spring. In the meantime, some of the artifacts...
Ukrainians fleeing war to Nebraska face uncertainty as legal status and right to work expire
Omaha World-Herald - Nebraska
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Since fleeing the war in Ukraine and arriving in Omaha two years ago, Nadiia has been grateful for the life she’s established here. Olya Klymchuk, left, and Karolina Ohnivchuk read along during an English class for Ukrainian refugees at the Elk...
Nebraska Lawmakers Helped Push Trump Admin to Unfreeze Education Funds
KLIN News Talk - Nebraska
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July 18, 2025
Following pressure from Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced it will release $1.3 billion in previously withheld grant money to states for after-school programs. A senior administration official...
A Popcorn Giant In Small-Town Nebraska
Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan - South Dakota
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NORTH LOUP, Neb. — On a bitter October morning in 1982, Chuck Zangger stood in his field near North Loup, staring at the brittle, ruined stalks of corn. The early frost had stolen the popcorn grower’s harvest — 600 acres of kernels that would...
Nebraska federal delegation votes to cut $9B from public media, foreign aid
Nebraska Examiner
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July 17, 2025
Editor’s Note: The story has been updated to reflect the House’s overnight vote and adds additional comments. LINCOLN — Nebraska Public Media will lose federal funding it says makes up 16% of its annual budget, as both of the station’s home-state...
Nebraska Women in Agriculture Launches Online Learning Platform with First Course Focused on LLCs for Farms and Ranches
Sidney Sun Telegraph - Nebraska
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July 17, 2025
The Nebraska Women in Agriculture program is proud to announce the launch of Agri-Essentials, a new online learning community designed to support, educate, and connect women involved in farming, ranching, and agribusiness across the state. The...
Nebraska groups explain nuance of expenses to hold an immigrant here illegally
KETV 7 - Nebraska
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July 17, 2025
Recent months have seen Immigration and Customs Enforcement actively arrest, detain, and remove undocumented immigrants. However, the financial cost of these actions is raising questions.Following the Glenn Valley Foods raid, some individuals are...
Nebraska senator criticizes ICE, calls it ‘gestapo’ in controversial tweets
DeKalb GA News - Georgia
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July 17, 2025
Democrat State Senator Megan Hunt of Nebraska has sparked controversy with her recent comments on social media. In a series of tweets, she criticized the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), referring to the agency as "America’s...
Nebraska sues Colorado over how much water it’s drawing from South Platte River
The Julesburg Advocate - Colorado
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July 17, 2025
OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska is suing Colorado over the amount of water it draws from the South Platte River, the latest in a long history of water rights disputes between the states that have been left increasingly dry by climate change. Nebraska Gov....
Nebraska sues Colorado over water rights in the South Platte River
Brownfield Ag News
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News Nebraska sues Colorado over water rights in the South Platte River A legal standoff over water rights impacting ag producers is headed to the US Supreme Court. Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers says Colorado is violating the1926 South...
A popcorn giant in small-town Nebraska: How the Zangger family grew an international seed behemoth
Flatwater Free Press - Nebraska
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July 18, 2025
On a bitter October morning in 1982, Chuck Zangger stood in his field near North Loup, staring at the brittle, ruined stalks of corn. The early frost had stolen the popcorn grower’s harvest — 600 acres of kernels that would never pop. He knelt,...
Rep. Adrian Smith highlights local events and outreach efforts across Nebraska
SE Nebraska News
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July 17, 2025
Rep. Adrian Smith, U.S. Congressman representing Nebraska’s 3rd district, shared updates on recent activities and community engagement through a series of posts in July 2025.On July 15, Smith posted about his participation as a judge at a...
Omaha Tribe of Nebraska becomes first in state to fully legalize cannabis on reservation
KETV 7 - Nebraska
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July 16, 2025
Very soon, some Nebraskans will be able to buy marijuana in Nebraska. But there's a catch: it will only be sold by the Omaha Tribe, and only on Native land.The Omaha Tribal Council adopted Title 51 on Tuesday, creating a Tribal Cannabis Regulatory...