Friday, April 10 Support us by becoming a member and following us on Twitter and Facebook View our guide to local resources at TheReader.com Good morning, Today we have stories about Gov. Ricketts quasi stay-at-home order, State Sen. Tony Vargas sharing his family’s struggle with Covid-19 and the status of the $600 the federal government promised to add to […]
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Who Polices the Police? In Omaha, Citizens Have Little Power
While a small crowd chanted outside, the 50 or so people who filled Omaha’s legislative chambers sat silently, waiting their turn to speak. As they stood behind the podium, some locked eyes defiantly on each Omaha City Councilmember. Others struck their words like a hammer to a nail. They stared down intently at their prepared […]
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“We’re Not Even Close”: Protections for Plant Workers Continue to Lag as Workers Fear Increased Infections
By Chris Bowling The cars lined up outside the church under wispy clouds and cool Spring weather, idling over the faded cement parking lot. Jose Gayatan turned off the ignition to his Ford F-350 van, pulled the mask over his face and walked toward Iglesia Evangélica Bethania Pentecostés. The 42-year-old construction worker has spent half […]
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Tear Gas, Pepper Bullets Fill The Night as Unrest Reaches Omaha
The shockwave cut through the night. A boom that sent the crowd fleeing as tear gas started to fill the air. As smoke completely enveloped the northwest corner of Dodge and 72nd streets in front of the Crossroads Target, a huddled group of people under the Crossroads Mall sign pointed toward the center of the […]
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Biggest Increase, Hope for Schools, Minneapolis Burns and More Top Local News for Friday, May 29
Friday, May 29 • 26 Days Under New DHM • At Least 3 Days to Go Support us by becoming a member and following us on Twitter and Facebook Crisis Behind Closed Doors: How the Pandemic Has Impacted Children’s Mental Health and What it Could Mean for Our Future As more kids spend time indoors, away from school and […]
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Sick Buildings
Sick Buildings Take two aspirin and build me in the morning by Michael Braunstein My house was built in 1907. The Titanic had not yet sailed in 1907. In 1907, Thomas Edison was just getting into the swing of things as an inventor and the primary source of lighting was sunlight or gas fixtures. To […]
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The Reader Interview with Don Bacon
The Reader interviewed Republican Congressman Don Bacon on Oct. 17, 2020 about issues ranging from racial inequality, COVID-19, climate change and the race against his Democrat opponent, Kara Eastman. The matchup in Nebraska’s Second Congressional District a rematch from 2018 where the Congressman won by a slim margin. *** Chris Bowling: I want to just […]
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Failure to Address COVID-19, Racial Justice, Call A Special Session Ends Frustrating 2020 Session
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 […]
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Come What? May?
Come What!? May? by Michael Braunstein Ride it. Don’t fight it. So now, in the strangest spring of our lifetimes, just to make it stranger, we are told to remain strangers until at least May. Let us remember that the axiom, “survival of the fittest,” is false. For it is not the fittest that survive. […]
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A New Social Reform Movement
As social reform protests sweep the world in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, America’s at a crossroads. Millennial energy feeds this movement taking to the streets, social media platforms and seats of power, demanding to overhaul oppressive dominant white culture systems. This organic coalition to remedy injustice is aligned independent of political party or center […]
