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The Iowa Board of Regents has selected Carson Holloway as the new director of the Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa, opening a new chapter for the center amid conflict over its development. Board of Regents President Robert Cramer said he appreciated the “time and energy” center interim…
LINCOLN — Nebraska’s four licensed medical cannabis cultivators are pushing for changes to testing, fees and legal protections for healthcare providers as questions loom over when the fledgling program will provide for legal sales. Representatives for the four licensed cultivators sent a joint letter to the Nebraska…
LINCOLN — Among recommendations to increase state funding for Nebraska’s 244 school districts was one adopted Tuesday to increase per-student aid by at least 4% annually. A draft of the 16-page report from Nebraska’s School Financing Review Commission offers 18 recommendations, most of which would tweak the Tax Equity…
HYANNIS, Neb. — With 19 days until Election Day, Dan Osborn sat across from three skeptical voters in a conference room in this blink-and-you-miss-it rural Nebraska town. Osborn, a bearded former union leader and Navy veteran, wants to become the first independent U.S. senator from Nebraska since World War II by…
LINCOLN — With no clear answers from the Nebraska Public Employees Retirement Board on the continued pay for its seemingly absent executive director, State Auditor Mike Foley said he is growing frustrated. “The board is completely abdicating their fiduciary responsibility to the state, to the employees, to retirees,”…
President Donald Trump announced via Truth Social that he will nominate Eric Hamilton to the U.S. District Court of Nebraska.
LINCOLN — An Omaha father said he was “dumbfounded” when his request for transparency about a DHHS tool used in determining funding for families with disabilities led to a nearly $1 million estimate to provide records, with expected completion by September 2076. DHHS now faces a lawsuit over the estimate. Curt…
WASHINGTON — Immigrants living in the United States with humanitarian status from Ukraine and Sudan will retain their deportation protections and work authorizations for now, the Department of Homeland Security said over the weekend. More than 100,000 Ukrainians and roughly 2,000 Sudanese with Temporary Protected…