Jan. 7-9 Monster Jam Mid-America Center, Council Bluffs Friday 7:30 p.m., Saturday 2 and 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m.; $30-45, $5 and up for kids 800.745.3000, ticketmaster.com If watching super-sized trucks do Transformer-like demolition derby feats is a turn on, then Monster Jam may be your hard-bodied wet dream come true. We’re talking powerful, custom-built […]
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Sesame Street Live: Elmo’s Healthy Heroes!
Jan. 6-9 Sesame Street Live: Elmo’s Healthy Heroes! Qwest Center Omaha, 455 N. 10th St. Jan. 6, 7 p.m.; Jan. 7, 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Jan. 8, 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.; Jan. 9, 1 and 4:30 p.m.; $10 Jan. 6, $12-50 Jan. 7-9, 800.745.3000, sesamestreetlive.com What ever happened to Super Grover? Remember the […]
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Scream the Truth at the World: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Hidden Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto
Through Feb. 25 Scream the Truth at the World: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Hidden Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Community Center Art Gallery, 333 S. 132nd St. Gallery hours: Mon.-Thurs. 8 a.m.-9 p.m., Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m., FREE, 335-6564, jccomaha.org “What we were unable to cry and scream out to […]
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City owes firefighters $2.2 million
City officials say Omaha firefighters are owed $2.2 million in raises for 2009 and 2010, after the state labor court ruled in their favor on Jan. 4. Previous estimates ranged as high as $5 million. Last fall, Mayor Jim Suttle and the Omaha Firefighters Local 385 agreed in principal to pay freezes in 2009 and […]
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Police reviewing gun policy following school shooting
The Omaha Police Department is reviewing its gun policy for off-duty officers after Robert Butler Jr. used his father’s police weapon in the Jan. 5 shooting at Millard South High School. The department’s current policy reads: “Officers will not store or leave a firearm in any place within the reach or easy access of a […]
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Nebraska gets a D+ on public schools report card
Nebraska’s public schools aren’t making the grade, according to the latest annual review of the nation’s public schools from Education Week . The Quality Counts 2011 report gave Nebraska an overall grade of D+, joining South Dakota and the District of Columbia as states who received the lowest grades. Nebraska’s overall score of 68.6 was […]
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Man dies while cleaning gun
James Williams, 61, died Jan. 11 after his gun accidentally fired while he was cleaning it at his home at 4527 Decatur St. Police do not suspect foul play, and are continuing to investigate.
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Punishing the punditry, reaping the whirlwind
Tom White received threats. Most politicians do. But the former Nebraska State Senator and 2010 Congressional candidate declined to elaborate on the nature of those threats because he says he never took them seriously. “Nebraskans are civilized people,” White says. The citizens of Arizona likely felt the same before 22-year-old Jared Loughner opened fire at […]
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Tuesday’s square round-up
I need advice on what to call these daily editions. I am reserving the term “junk drawer” for my Friday column, because it’s pulled from the whole week (and if there was other junk around, my junk wouldn’t feel as special…and my junk is very special, right?). Thursday is now the day of Things You […]
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All the news I feel like printing for Monday
Not a whole lot happened over the weekend. I mean in terms of film. Plenty of interesting things happened in the world over the weekend, just not ones I get to make pithy jokes about here. I was going to go for some metaphor about how slow the weekend news was, but I couldn’t choose […]