Starting today, nearly every county in the state is no longer required to follow state-issued directed health measures. Under Phase 4, measures have been lifted that previously applied bars, restaurants, childcare facilities, churches, gyms, salons, barbers, tattoo parlors, weddings and more are lifted. Original guidance is still recommended, however. The only hard-and-fast limitation is that […]
If someone said the Nebraska Legislature failed the state in 2020, they wouldn’t be wrong. That’s how State Senator Machaela Cavanaugh, of District 6 in Omaha, feels after the body did little to address calls to address the state’s most pressing issues. “I was definitely depressed and disappointed,” she said. “A lot of the depression […]
By Nebraska State Senator Megan Hunt We knew that the second session of the 106th Legislature wasn’t going to be easy when we convened in January, but there was no way for us to prepare for the challenges that COVID-19 would bring upon us. When the pandemic began to reach Nebraska in March, the Legislature […]
Nebraska’s COVID-19 daily testing and case increases continue jumping all over the place. On Aug. 25, testing and cases started to rise after seeing a sharp downturn, which I noted in my last column seemed to be a result of lagging test results. Now there’s been another sharp downturn due to many testing sites being […]
By Chris Bowling Since the pandemic struck, Jake Greve’s paychecks have been decimated. Even as business at Nite Owl where he works as a bartender crept back from curbside to socially distanced dine in, he said his paycheck is only a third of what it was before. That was fine when unemployment benefits were coming […]
Intro by Will Bauer Nearly 400 Nebraskans have died during the pandemic, but we don’t know much about them. Every day, a health department in the state issues a press release that says a man or a woman of such and such age died. But no more. These people are mothers and fathers, brothers and […]
In the ever shifting and Oz-behind-the-curtain sorcery of political projections, there’s a new space to watch that could decide the 2020 election. Nebraska’s Second Congressional District. The district that makes up all of Douglas County and parts of Sarpy got some recognition yesterday when Nate Silver, founder and editor of FiveThirtyEight, tweeted that 2020 […]
Tony Conner, president of the Omaha Police Officers Association, fills his Twitter feed with posts about politics, police and protesters. But the police union president, a 20-year OPD veteran whose organization represents the 902 sworn officers of the Omaha Police Department, also “likes” Tweets that use more graphic language. “I don’t feel bad for criminals […]
Editors note: This is a weekly series from The Reader breaking down COVID-19 data from the state. In it, reporter Chris Bowling will look at the latest in COVID-19 numbers and news. See daily COVID-19 updates here Things were looking good. Douglas County finally had a mask mandate. Lancaster County had moved into risk-level “yellow.” Daily […]
8/25/20 • Day 65 of Phase III • Nationwide case trends Support us by becoming a member and following us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook $10 Million in Relief for Large Omaha Arts Nonprofits, Smaller Organizations Need More Help On Aug. 11, the Douglas County Board of Commissioners granted $10 million in CARES Act funds to the Omaha Community Foundation […]
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