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Nebraska Food Bank Announces $37M Building And Relocation Plan To Help Meet ‘Unforeseen’ Demand

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 06/05/2024 - 4:00am

Property upon which Food Bank for the Heartland will build was a car dealership for a half-century.
(Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)

OMAHA — Rising demand for food assistance across the 93 counties it serves has pushed the Food Bank for the Heartland to extraordinary measures, including leasing refrigerated trailers to store food in the parking lot.

A ceremonial groundbreaking Sunday for a $37 million new headquarters project. (Cindy Gonzalez/Nebraska Examiner)

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Military Labs Do The Detective Work To Identify Soldiers Decades After They Died In World War II

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/29/2024 - 6:00am

Photos of service members are seen on a wall in a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency lab at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb.
(Charlie Neibergall / AP Photo)

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) — Generations of American families have grown up not knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who died while serving their country in World War II and other conflicts.

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A Walk In Arlington

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/29/2024 - 5:00am

Remembering comes easy to Nebraskans.

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Bellevue Woman’s Unspoken Heroism During World War II May Soon Become A Full-Length Film

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/29/2024 - 4:00am

Jean Briggs, then an 18-year-old girl in Britain, turned down a deferment to attend an art school to enlist in the Women’s Royal Navy Service, known as the “Wrens.” For three decades, she kept a sworn secret: She worked on a clandestine program that deciphered Hilter’s military orders during World War II.
(Courtesy of Robin Watters)

LINCOLN — For years, Jean Watters kept secret her critical role in helping defeat Hitler in World War II.

Watters, who was born in Suffolk, England, worried that she’d slip up and accidentally reveal what she had sworn to withhold — she even had nightmares about it.

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After 5 Years Without Drinkable Water, Santee Asks: When Will Our Tap Water Be Safe?

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/29/2024 - 3:00am

The Missouri River runs along the northern border of the Santee Sioux Reservation. The tribe needs $53 million to drill a pipeline under the river to connect with a water system in South Dakota.
(Jerry L Mennenga / Flatwater Free Press)

Kameron Runnels watches, frustrated, as a pair of Santee tribal members move a pallet of water bottles with a borrowed forklift.

The source of Runnels’ frustration: They’re only moving three pallets of bottled water on this Monday morning, less than a quarter of what the tribe had ordered. The too-small shipment had arrived on the reservation only after an unexplained month-long delay.

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U.S. Department Of Agriculture To Fund $300 Million In Grants To Boost Exports

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 05/23/2024 - 2:00am

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday announced $300 million in funding for more than 60 groups seeking to diversify American agricultural exports.

“USDA is pleased to be able to provide the startup capital to tap into these opportunities,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on a call with reporters Monday night previewing the announcement.

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Botanists Are Scouring The US-Mexico Border To Document A Forgotten Ecosystem Split By A Giant Wall

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/22/2024 - 6:00am

Bright yellow blooms carpet the ground, a sharp contrast to the imposing steel bollards of the border wall topped with rolls of razor wire Friday, April 19, 2024, in the Ejido Jacume in the Tecate Municipality of Baja Calif., Mexico.
(Damian Dovarganes / AP Photo)

JACUMÉ, México (AP) — Near the towering border wall flanked by a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle, botanist Sula Vanderplank heard a quail in the scrub yelp “chi-ca-go,” a sound the birds use to signal they are separated from a mate or group.

Then silence.

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Nebraska Lawmakers Unanimously Pass Privacy Law

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/22/2024 - 5:00am

In 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Americans have a right to privacy when supporting nonprofit causes. This year, Nebraska lawmakers unanimously passed legislation to implement that ruling and guard against privacy violations by state agencies.

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Ed Dwight, America's First Black Astronaut Candidate, Finally Goes To Space 60 Years Later

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/22/2024 - 4:00am

VAN HORN, Texas (AP) — Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on Sunday.

Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F. Kennedy championed him as a candidate for NASA’s early astronaut corps. But he wasn’t picked for the 1963 class.

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Americans Leave A Huge Chunk Of Change At Airport Security Checkpoints − Here’s What It Means For The Debate Over Getting Rid Of Pennies

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/22/2024 - 3:00am

Should the U.S. get rid of pennies, nickels and dimes? The debate has gone on for years. Many people argue for keeping coins on economic-fairness grounds. Others call for eliminating them because the government loses money minting low-value coins.

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Nebraska Food Bank Announces $37M Building And Relocation Plan To Help Meet ‘Unforeseen’ Demand

Military Labs Do The Detective Work To Identify Soldiers Decades After They Died In World War II

A Walk In Arlington

Bellevue Woman’s Unspoken Heroism During World War II May Soon Become A Full-Length Film

After 5 Years Without Drinkable Water, Santee Asks: When Will Our Tap Water Be Safe?

U.S. Department Of Agriculture To Fund $300 Million In Grants To Boost Exports

Botanists Are Scouring The US-Mexico Border To Document A Forgotten Ecosystem Split By A Giant Wall

Nebraska Lawmakers Unanimously Pass Privacy Law

Ed Dwight, America's First Black Astronaut Candidate, Finally Goes To Space 60 Years Later

Americans Leave A Huge Chunk Of Change At Airport Security Checkpoints − Here’s What It Means For The Debate Over Getting Rid Of Pennies

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