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Federal Cuts Gut Food Banks as They Face Record Demand
By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez Food bank shortages caused by high demand and cuts to federal aid programs have some residents of a small community that straddles Idaho and Nevada growing their own food...
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More Psych Hospital Beds Are Needed for Kids, but Neighbors Say Not Here
By Eric Berger If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.” In January, a teenager in suburban St....
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The Growing Inequality in Life Expectancy Among Americans
By Amy Maxmen The life expectancy among Native Americans in the western United States has dropped below 64 years, close to life expectancies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Haiti. For...
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7 of 10 States Backed Abortion Rights. But Little to Change Yet.
By Bram Sable-Smith Voters backed abortion rights in seven of the 10 states where the issue appeared on ballots Tuesday — at first glance, seemingly reshaping the nation’s patchwork of abortion...
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The Nation’s 911 System Is on the Brink of Its Own Emergency
By Stephanie Armour Just after lunchtime on June 18, Massachusetts’ leaders discovered that the statewide 911 system was down. A scramble to handle the crisis was on. Police texted out administrative...
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Paying Caregivers More Could Boost Nebraska’s Economy − New Research
By Susan Rebecca Reay, University of Nebraska Omaha and Ernie Goss, Creighton University Paid caregivers foster independence and improve quality of life for people with all kinds of disabilities,...
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Droughts, Complicated by Climate Change, Result in US Beef Herd Hitting...
By John McCracken, Investigate Midwest Thirty years ago, the weather on Annie Doerr’s family ranch felt reliable. Now that she’s taken over from her parents, it’s been anything but. In recent years,...
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Bathroom Bills Are Back — Broader and Stricter — In Several States
By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez Republican lawmakers in several states have resurrected and expanded the fight over whether transgender people may use bathrooms and other facilities that do not match...
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Rising Malpractice Premiums Price Small Clinics Out of Gender-Affirming Care...
By Cecilia Nowell After Iowa lawmakers passed a ban on gender-affirming care for minors in March, managers of an LGBTQ+ health clinic located just across the state line in Moline, Illinois, decided...
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Nebraska Directs $2M To Boost Reading in Preschools, Eliminate ‘Book Deserts’
By Cindy Gonzalez, The 74 OMAHA — Seeking to eliminate “book deserts” in Nebraska, the State Department of Education has directed $2 million toward getting more than a half-million books into...
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Who’s Buying Nebraska? Corporations, Investors Grabbing Giant Chunks of...
By Yanqi Xu, Flatwater Free Press and Destiny Herbers, Flatwater Free Press, Investigate Midwest This story was originally published by the Flatwater Free Press. There’s never a Black Friday discount...
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Three Nebraska Tribes Are Buying Back Farmland, and Attempting to Reverse...
By Destiny Herbers, Flatwater Free Press, Investigate Midwest This story is part of a series overseen by the Rural News Network. Read the other stories here. WINNEBAGO, Nebraska — Aaron LaPointe sits...
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A Tweak to the University of Nebraska’s Logo Shows How the Once Benign ‘Ok’...
By Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis On April 17, 2023, the Nebraska Cornhuskers unveiled the latest version of their beloved mascot, Herbie Husker. Herbie’s left hand no longer forms the “OK”...
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Centene Showers Politicians With Millions as It Courts Contracts and Settles...
By Samantha Young and Andy Miller and Rebecca Grapevine On Nov. 2, 2021, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak’s reelection campaign received 10 separate $10,000 contributions from what appeared to be unrelated...
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Abortion Politics Lead to Power Struggles Over Family Planning Grants
By Katheryn Houghton BOZEMAN, Mont. — In a busy downtown coffee shop, a drawing of a ski lift with intrauterine devices for chairs draws the eyes of sleepy customers getting their morning underway...
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Dreams, Interrupted
It was the strangest thing, a day that started with a quiet, gentle rain shower. It was kind of peaceful, and kind of jarring. A peaceful dream of rolling hills, missed exits and giant, monolithic...
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It’s Potty Time
It was a great idea, and one that should have been further developed. Nobody has really gone to the trouble of rating Interstate Rest Areas. These expensive, vital links to interstate travel and...
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Enlightenment, the Hard Way
If you live long enough you’ll see every victory turns into a defeat. ~Simone de Beauvoir It wasn’t that long ago that I believed some of the more credible platitudes concerning the value of...
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Is the Key to Closing the Achievement Gap Found In… Nebraska?
Jennifer Berkshire (EduShyster) talks to Education Cities’ Ethan Gray about the new Education Equality Index, and challenges him to accompany her to the #1 gap-closing city in the USA: Omaha,...
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Who Was This Year’s Best Oscar-Nominated Dad: Christian Bale or Bruce Dern?
The 2014 Academy voters appear to be fans of the incredibly flawed fathers of “American Hustle” and “Nebraska”—2013 was not a great year for fathers in the movies. There was a lot for dads to enjoy at...
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