The Reader interviewed Kara Eastman on Oct. 23, 2020 about issues such as racial inequality, criminal justice reform, healthcare and climate change. Eastman is facing Republican Congressman Don Bacon for the second time. In 2018 she lost by a slim margin and has sought to build a broader coalition of supporters to close the gap. […]
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Filling Ernie’s Shoes And A Moment for North Omaha
By Chris Bowling Within puzzle-piece boundaries that jut and zigzag from the Missouri River to Cuming Street, up 48th Street and across Redick Avenue, lies Legislative District 11. Throughout Nebraska, there are 49 other malformed polygons like it. Every four years, about 35,000 people in those boundaries elect one among them to serve in the […]
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Covid-19 Omaha resource guide
Updated on April 1 1:03 p.m. Caps on public gatherings. Large community events shuttering. Public officials from the local to federal levels scrambling. The Covid-19 crisis has shifted dramatically in Omaha leaving many adapting day by day, hour by hour to a slew of guidelines, information and public emergency notices. In an effort to provide […]
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Uncertainty, Fear, Hope: One Small Business District’s Pandemic Survival
Sunlight streams through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the second-story lookout. Since 2003, Mark Pluhacek has had a prime view of Underwood Avenue from the dining room of his restaurant, Marks. From here, he’s watched Dundee grow into a tight-knit community. One where employees and regulars of the neighborhood’s small businesses count their tenure in years, […]
