The Board of Trustees for the Douglas County Health Center voted on March 26 not to close or sell the facility, which apparently they had no intention of doing in the first place. Trustee Mary Ann Borgeson told a near capacity crowd in the legislative chamber, “It was not our intention to close or sell […]
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Dark Side of the Runway or There She Is, Miss American Idiot
A few notes from last week… Nostalgia and my prurient curiosity were the reasons we switched channels between Game 5 of the NBA finals and the Miss USA beauty pageant Sunday night. I remembered the pageant growing up, seeing a teary-eyed Bob Barker (Burt Parks hosted the Miss America pageant, a completely different animal) serenade […]
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River’s Edge Is a Game Changer
When I mentioned to the editors of this esteemed publication that I was planning on writing a review of River’s Edge Park this week, they were mortified. The Reader is sponsoring Bluffs Bash there June 7-8, and the last thing they needed was for my dumb ass to go and band-mouth the property. Come on, […]
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The Project, Pt. 3: The Letting Go
This is part three of a series that ran in the Dec. 20 and Feb. 28 issues of The Reader. Read Part One and Part Two. So we got the house. And it wasn’t easy. It took weeks and weeks of negotiation, and even after our counter offer was accepted, there was a question as […]
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Staying With The Family
It was 1881 when Nebraska first placed ungovernable boys and girls in a new red brick State Industrial School in Kearney with the intent of reforming them. It was not until 1892, that 57 girls were moved from Kearney to a new Girls Industrial School at Geneva. Though programs and institution names have changed over […]
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The Feminist Capitalist
Looking out at the faces of people waiting to hear me discuss Warren Buffett’s investment strategies recently, I asked myself the same, but always unanswered, question the world’s greatest investor would himself ask: Where were the women? Buffett knows one thing other men tend to overlook — being a feminist is good for the bottom […]
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Gun laws will never change (and you’re (probably) going to be OK)
The arguments for or against gun control are as useful as the arguments for or against abortion or legalizing marijuana or conservative vs. liberal or tax vs. spend or cats vs. dogs. You’re either for or against, and no one cares because their side of the argument is so galvanized that they’ll never change their […]
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Creative Humans
Betsye Paragas Queen of Cultural Collaboration: Paragas grew Omaha’s cultural footprint story by Cheril Lee “My favorite thing is collaborating. I like to see the arts organizations in Omaha do things together,” enthused Betsye Paragas, director of community relations for Opera Omaha. Over the course of her career, Paragas has worked for many arts organizations […]
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Think globally, act locally
David Corbin, Ph,D, Emeritus professor, Health Education & Public Health, UNO Before he retired from 31 years of teaching in Omaha, David Corbin packed a lot of traveling into his youth, getting college degrees in New Mexico, Ohio and Pennsylvania, playing guitar professionally on cruise ships in Puerto Rico and teaching college in Saskatchewan, Canada. Corbin is […]
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Coming home
On its face Watie White’s new public art project at an abandoned North Omaha house could be construed as a privileged white guy coming into the black community to impose his perceptions on that place and its people. But that’s not the case with his All That Ever Was Always Is outdoor installation at 2424 […]
