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The Douglas County Board of Commissioners welcomed Danielle Jensen, the new Douglas County election commissioner, at its Feb. 3 meeting.
Jensen noted that as a high school senior, she registered to vote because of an initiative to register people to vote before they turned 18. She recalled how happy she was when she registered “because I knew my vote mattered and t...
LEXINGTON — At 2 a.m. on a 16-degree mid-January Monday, Magdalena Barrios got in line. Only 10 people stood in front of her outside the Dawson County Opportunity Center.
By 5:30 a.m., the line wrapped halfway around the side of the former Walmart. The doors wouldn’t open until 9 a.m.
For years prior, the roughly 200 people in that line worked at ...
Shelby native Curt Tomasevicz fulfilled his dream of playing football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, where he was a scrappy special teamer. But since then, his life and career have taken a circuitous route — a twisting, turning path kind of like a bobsled course.
Tomasevicz, who grew up in a 700-person town hundreds of miles from the nearest mountain, is now on th...
LINCOLN — The conflict between the Governor’s Office and State Auditor Mike Foley over Nebraska’s emergency no-bid bioeconomy contract has entered a new and more serious stage.
Foley earlier this week confirmed referring two audit findings to the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office and the Nebraska State Patrol for investigation and possible prosecution.
LINCOLN — Gov. Jim Pillen’s administration, facing scrutiny for a no-bid emergency contract with a lobbyist to whom he steered more than $2 million in state money, has again changed its story about how and why the contract was awarded.
A governor’s spokeswoman tells the Nebraska Examiner that agricultural tech CEO Julie Bushell had already been helping the state,...