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☆ Republican Ben Sasse says he's 'sad' for 'needy and desperate' Trump in parting shot before leaving the Senate
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

GOP Sen. Ben Sasse offered a parting blow to Trump as the Nebraskan leaves Congress. Sasse, who is moving on to academia, said it's "sad" the former president is so "needy and desperate." The Nebraska Republican also praised Trump for appointing conservative judges. Sasse formally resigned from the Senate on Sunday to become the next president of the University of Florida. Ricketts ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 2006, losing handily to then-Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson.

☆ Alfalfa sprouts recalled in 3 states due to potential salmonella contamination
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

A Nebraska company is recalling alfalfa sprouts sold in three states due to potential salmonella contamination as state health officials investigate a “cluster of gastrointestinal illnesses” caused by the bacteria. SunSprout Enterprises, based in Fremont, Nebraska, announced Thursday that it is voluntarily recalling four lots of raw alfalfa sprouts. SunSprout Enterprises alfalfa sprouts. "This voluntary recall is a result of a preliminary investigation by the State of Nebraska in connection with CDC of an outbreak of illness likely associated with alfalfa sprouts," the company said. State Epidemiologist Dr. Matthew Donahue praised local and state health officials for quickly narrowing down the cause of the illnesses.

☆ Warren Buffett slams a $300 million streetcar that would run right past Berkshire Hathaway HQ in Omaha. Here's why he wants buses instead.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Warren Buffett's hometown of Omaha is planning to build a streetcar that would travel right by Berkshire Hathaway HQ. Buffett wants Omaha residents to vote on the streetcar project, but it doesn't require a vote. Instead, the city should consider beefing up its current bus system, Buffett wrote. The World-Herald reported that the types of bonds approved for the streetcar project do not require a public vote. Burke wrote that the streetcar construction is expensive, could cause traffic issues, and the expected development around the streetcar might not happen.

Any conversion to a whole life insurance product goes through the same application as a new life insurance policy. Simplified Term Life Insurance: Enjoy quick and easy application (no medical exam life insurance) and approval (subject to health history) with this no-nonsense option. Whole Life Insurance: A whole life policy delivers life insurance coverage for an individual's entire life. A licensed life insurance agent is always the best resource for purchasing an appropriate life insurance plan. Seeing the limits on American Family life insurance policies, you might buy multiple life policies.

☆ Child among 2 dead after tornadoes, storms tear through swaths of Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Kathryn-Prociv.Jpg | Kathryn Prociv | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

A tornado touched down south of Shreveport, damaging several homes and knocking down trees and power lines, according to the sheriff's office. The National Weather Service in Fort Worth said there may have been 12 tornadoes, which will be confirmed by storm surveys. The severe weather in Texas occurred as a major winter storm was also pummeling Louisiana, with more than 10 million people under winter weather warnings or advisories across the Rockies and the northern Plains states. High winds toppled big-rig trucks Tuesday morning in Parker and Wise counties in Texas, according to the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. George Frey / AFP - Getty ImagesWestbound Interstate 70 was closed near the Kansas-Colorado border because of fear of dangerous winter weather, officials in both states said.

☆ Oil Spill in Kansas Prompts Shutdown of Keystone Pipeline System
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Derrick Bryson Taylor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Keystone pipeline system was shut down Wednesday night after its operator, TC Energy, said it had detected an oil spill in northern Kansas. An estimated 14,000 barrels of oil spilled into a creek in Washington County, Kan., south of the Nebraska border, TC Energy said in a statement on Thursday. Washington County has a population of about 5,500, according to government data. The Washington County Emergency Management Office said on Facebook on Thursday that residents in and around the county had reported waking up to the smell of gas. TC Energy said that the “affected segment” of the pipeline “has been isolated and we have contained downstream migration of the release.” The company said that crews were responding to the spill and were working to contain and recover the oil.

☆ Nebraska man gets prison for leaving noose for coworker
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

— A former employee at the Oriental Trading Co. has been sentenced to prison for leaving a noose on a floor scrubber that a Black colleague was set to use. The Nebraska U.S. Attorney’s office said Bruce Quinn, 66, was sentenced Friday to four months in prison and one year of supervised release for leaving the noose for his coworker to find. He pleaded guilty in September to a federal civil rights violation. Prosecutors said a 63-year-old Black man who worked for Oriental Trading found the noose made out of orange twine sitting on the seat of the equipment in June 2020. “Federal courts have long recognized the noose as one of the most vile symbols in American history,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

☆ Dead Costco chickens produce piles of bones outside a Nebraska town. Residents complain about 'smell of death'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Mary Meisenzahl | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Some Nebraska residents are complaining about discarded chicken parts from Costco's operations. Residents said the smell from discarded poultry was "unbearable," the Nebraska Examiner reported. David City Mayor Alan Zavodny also expressed concern that composting operations were near the city's water wells, the Examiner reported. Bones and other discarded parts from dead chickens can be piled up at the chicken barns themselves, the Examiner reported, citing state laws. "It was just the smell of death," Greg Lanc, a farmer who lives within a mile of nearly 50 chicken barns, told the Examiner.

☆ District to revive student newspaper axed after LGBTQ issue
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

A Nebraska public school district that shuttered a student newspaper following an LGBTQ-focused edition has agreed to bring it back next year in digital form, according to the teacher who advised the publication. The role of advising the newspaper and teaching journalism in the school “has been offered to another teacher,” she said. An attorney for the ACLU, Rose Godinez, said the school district must do more than simply reinstate the student newspaper. To remedy those violations, Godinez said, the district must also develop and implement policies that protect LGBTQ students and the rights of student journalists. The Nebraska ACLU said Monday that the school district delivered within the past few days some public records it had requested.

☆ 1 dead, 7 injured in shooting during after-hours party in Nebraska, police say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Chantal Da Silva | Chantal Da Silva Is A Breaking News Editor For Nbc News Digital Based In London. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Police were searching for a suspect after one person was killed and seven others injured after a shooting broke out during an after-hours party in Omaha, Nebraska on Sunday. Both victims were taken to the Nebraska Medical Center, where one was pronounced dead. “Six additional victims arrived by private vehicle at the Nebraska Medical Center and CUMC-Bergan Mercy Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries,” the release said. The shooting was believed to have unfolded after a confrontation during an after-hours party escalated, Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said in a later update. "There is no indication it was a random shooting," Schmaderer said.

☆ Republican Jim Pillen faces off against Democratic state Sen. Carol Blood in Nebraska's gubernatorial election
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Explore more race results below. Republican Jim Pillen is running against Democratic state Sen. Carol Blood in Nebraska's gubernatorial race. The race is pegged as "solid Republican." Prior to being elected to the state senate, Blood served two terms on the Bellevue City Council as the at-large representative. What experts sayThe race between Pillen and Blood is rated as "solid Republican" by Inside Elections, "solid Republican" by The Cook Political Report, and "safe Republican" by Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.

☆ Live Election Results: Nebraska State Legislature
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Polls close in the state at 7 p.m. in the mountain time zone and 8 p.m. in the central time zone. It symobilizes the 2022 Election. Election 2022 Nebraska Results Explore more election results Alaska Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Nevada New Hampshire New Mexico New York North Carolina Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Texas Virginia Washington WisconsinThis cycle, 24 out of 49 of the seats in the Nebraska State Senate are up for election, and Republicans currently control this unicameral legislature by a margin of 15 seats. Polls close in the state at 7 p.m. in the mountain time zone and 8 p.m. in the central time zone. Nebraska Senate election results:

☆ Republican Rep. Don Bacon faces off against Democrat Tony Vargas in Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District election
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Republican Rep. Don Bacon is running for reelection against Democrat Tony Vargas in Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District election. The 2nd District was one of nine in the country to vote for President Joe Biden in 2020 despite having a Republican representative. Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District candidatesBacon, a veteran of the Air Force, currently sits on the House Agriculture Committee and the House Armed Services Committee. Voting history for Nebraska's 2nd Congressional DistrictNebraska's 2nd District covers all of Douglas County, the city of Omaha included, and a portion of Sarpy County. His opponent, Vargas, has raised just over $3 million, spent 2.8 million, and has more than $313,000 of cash on hand as of October 19.

☆ University of Florida to enforce protest ban after anti-Sasse rally
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Sasse, a Republican in his second Senate term, has drawn criticism from some at the school for his opposition to same-sex marriage. While the university supports the First Amendment right to free speech, “with this commitment comes an obligation to protect the rights of everyone in our community to speak and to hear,” Fuchs said. Others question his qualifications to run such a sprawling school with more than 50,000 students, and the secretive selection process used in choosing Sasse. A new Florida law allows universities to conduct much of the process outside of the state’s open meetings and public records laws. Sasse, 50, was previously president of Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska, which has just over 1,600 students.

Crop Watch corn fields were harvested last week: Nebraska and eastern Iowa. The eastern Iowa corn finished at 4.25, down a quarter-point from earlier predictions and a half-point below last year. The Nebraska corn is irrigated this year, but the producer would score his dryland corn yield around 1.5. That would be slightly above the 2020 result, which is consistent with the Crop Watch corn scores in 2022 versus 2020. REST OF HARVESTFour more Crop Watch corn fields remain.

As an outbreak of Ebola spreads in Uganda, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention remain confident that the virus can be contained. The people most at risk, therefore, are household contacts and health care workers treating Ebola patients. In 2019, a vaccine was approved for the Ebola virus that caused the 2014 outbreak. The current Ebola outbreak, however, is caused by a different species of the virus, and no vaccines or direct treatments are available. The Ebola virus causes hemorrhagic fever, leading to problems with how the body clots blood.

Find out what your state provides for first-time homebuyers:Programs in the NortheastConnecticutThe Connecticut Housing Finance Authority gives loans for down payment assistance. Programs in the SoutheastAlabamaThe Alabama Housing Finance Association has down payment assistance programs for low-to-moderate income earners, and a tax credit program that can be combined with down payment assistance. If you're buying a home in Louisville, you might qualify for a down payment assistance loan from the local government. WashingtonThe Washington State Housing Finance Commission has several down payment assistance programs that will loan you up to $10,000. The lender is also the one who will approve and process any applications for down payment assistance, closing cost assistance, or tax credits.

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☆ Want to sound less annoying? Avoid these 15 words and phrases that are ‘embarrassingly cliched,’ say grammar experts
▼ + stars: | 2021-12-26 | by ( Kathy | Ross Petras | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

That's legit, but it's being used so often now that we seem to be avoiding a simpler word: "Detailed." It seems like everyone wants to take things offline instead of talking about it later, like they used to say in the old days. 'We remain cautious'Sometimes, "we remain cautious" is used to say nothing — meaning "we're not going to say much because who knows?" Other times, it's used to say "not to worry; we're not going to do anything untoward." But now, it's overused: WFH clothes, WFH hacks (see above), WFH everything.

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