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  • State auditor highlights 'disturbing uptick' in alleged fraud

    State auditor highlights 'disturbing uptick' in alleged fraud
    2025/06/03
    State Auditor Mike Foley has issued audit letters to eight local government units in the past six weeks highlighting alleged financial malpractice. The offenses include a Nemaha County commissioner using a county gas pump to fill his personal vehicle, a Custer County employee who recorded work hours while at her children’s school events and Pleasanton village employees who used their 11% rebates from village expenses at Menards for personal purchases. Foley says he didn’t remember there being so many cases during his previous term as auditor between 2007 and 2015.
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  • NE LULAC is closing its doors for now

    NE LULAC is closing its doors for now
    2025/06/03
    The Nebraska chapter of the nation’s oldest Latino advocacy group is closing its doors for now.
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  • Effort to ban some hemp products like Delta 8 falls short

    Effort to ban some hemp products like Delta 8 falls short
    2025/05/30
    A proposal banning certain forms of hemp and so-called synthetic cannabis was passed over Friday before a vote could be taken. The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Kathleen Kauth, made the decision after it appeared there would not be the votes necessary to overcome a filibuster attempt. Progressives filed motions to stop an amendment clarifying that the bill wouldn’t supersede the medical marijuana initiatives Nebraskans passed in November from being added to the bill. Sen. Ben Hansen, who voted for the bill on the first two rounds, said without the amendment, he couldn’t support it moving forward.
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  • Legislature advances bill banning some consumable hemp products

    Legislature advances bill banning some consumable hemp products
    2025/05/28
    A bill restricting some consumable hemp products in Nebraska advanced to the final round of debate in the Legislature Tuesday Afternoon. Under a bill from Sen. Kathleen Kauth, LB316, some consumable hemp products would be reclassified as marijuana, which is currently illegal for recreational use in the state. To remain legal, THC – the chemical responsible for making a user high – must make up less than 0.3% of the processed hemp product’s total weight with a limit of 10 total milligrams of THC per package.
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  • Senators question appointments for Medical Cannabis Commission

    Senators question appointments for Medical Cannabis Commission
    2025/05/22
    The Legislature’s General Affairs Committee heard testimony from Lorelle Mueting and Dr. Monica Oldenburg, who were both selected by the governor from a pool of applicants. Mueting serves as a prevention program director at Heartland Family Service, while Oldenburg is an anesthesiologist who previously practiced in Colorado. Both have a history of opposition to medical marijuana legalization.
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  • LPD and counselors care for people in crisis, one call at a time

    LPD and counselors care for people in crisis, one call at a time
    2025/05/22
    This Mental Health Awareness month, the Lincoln Police Department is celebrating a successful start to its co-responder program -- a team-up with mental health professionals that could decrease the use of jails and emergency medical services. Lincoln announced plans for the co-responder program in September, with a partnership between LPD and CenterPointe, a mental health and substance abuse care clinic that conducts street outreach and crisis response. It began in early March.
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  • Bill allowing students to attend off site religion classes fails

    Bill allowing students to attend off site religion classes fails
    2025/05/22
    State senators considered a package of education bills Wednesday afternoon. By the end of the day’s debate, only the underlying bill, LB306, remained. The legislation initially contained six different bills after an amendment, AM1335, from the Legislature’s Education Committee combined them. The section of the bill from Sen. Loren Lippincott, originally LB550, which would excuse students from public schools to attend religion classes, was among the most controversial. It would require school districts to adopt policies allowing students to miss up to one class period per week for an off-site course in religious instruction.
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  • A house built for magic

    A house built for magic
    2025/05/22
    A house near the intersection of Center Street and 35th Street, sits a house that, unknown to many, was built for a very specific purpose: to create magic. With the recent purchase of the house by the Omaha Magical Society, plans have been laid to preserve and unearth the rich history of the Abbott house.
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