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3 days ago · By Cindy Gonzalez - November 11, 2024. BRIEF. Dozens of WWII-era inert munitions found in Beatrice, Nebraska, home after resident’s passing. BY Cindy Gonzalez - November 12, 2024. North Dakota seeks to intervene in latest Dakota Access Pipeline lawsuit. BY Mary Steurer - November 12, 2024.
Final votes counted in key central Nebraska legislative race
10 hours ago · As of final votes counted Tuesday night, former State Sen. Dan Quick continued to lead State Sen. Ray Aguilar. Quick was up by 135 votes, which is outside mandatory recount margins. Quick served in the Legislature from 2017 to 2021. Then in 2020, Aguilar, who had served between 1999 and 2009, beat Quick to return to the District 35 seat.
Affordable housing concerns sparked by Omaha’s electrical code …
1 day ago · Mayor Jean Stothert veto power could be pivotal. OMAHA — An effort to update the City of Omaha’s electrical code, typically not a huge headline-maker, has sparked a bit of fireworks and divided the lawmaking body of Nebraska’s largest city. Representatives of the region’s homebuilding industry are among the most vocal, saying an updated ...
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6 days ago · BY: Paul Hammel - November 8, 2024. LINCOLN — The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday sustained a request to disbar a Bennington lawyer for dodging more than $400,000 in federal income taxes. Thomas O. Campbell, who had been a practicing attorney since 2011, pleaded guilty in December to willfully filing false income tax returns from 2014 to ...
Medical cannabis prevails at Nebraska’s ballot box, but fate …
Nov 6, 2024 · Supporters of medical cannabis joined together in support of two related ballot measures for the 2024 general election at a public hearing for Initiative Measures 437 and 438 at the University of Nebraska at Omaha on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024.
Nebraskans vote yes to requiring employers to provide earned …
Nov 6, 2024 · The Paid Sick Leave for Nebraskans group turned in more than 138,000 signatures from voters to reach the ballot. (Aaron Sanderford/Nebraska Examiner) LINCOLN — Nebraska employers will now be required to provide earned paid sick leave for eligible employees, through a ballot issue that passed Tuesday. Advocates had estimated that 250,000 ...
Live Election Results • Nebraska Examiner
Nov 6, 2024 · Get 2024 election results as they are reported: district by district, state by state. Real-time results and race calls by Decision Desk HQ. Nebraskans want accountability from their elected officials and government. They want to know whether their tax dollars are being well-spent, whether state ...
Nebraska voter turnout is a near record-breaker
Nov 7, 2024 · Preliminary turnout numbers show that 73.9% of Nebraska’s registered voters participated in the 2024 general election. That’s higher than the 72% prediction that Evnen had made earlier in the week. Final turnout results could inch up slightly as remaining ballots are counted, a spokeswoman for the office said.
Ballot measure fundraising nears $40 million ahead of Nebraska …
Nov 4, 2024 · July 8, 2024. (Aaron Sanderford/Nebraska Examiner) LINCOLN — Nebraskans are facing one of the most expensive elections in state history, including about $38 million raised and at least $32 million spent on campaigns involving six ballot measures. Five campaigns have measures on the ballot, with the most expensive being the conflicting ...
Medical marijuana legalization and regulation are certified for ...
Sep 13, 2024 · Election 2024; Government & Politics; Health; Medical marijuana legalization and regulation are certified for Nebraska’s November ballot Secretary of state says the campaign’s two petitions “appear” to have enough valid signatures but that continued investigations could lead a court to throw election results out later