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'Extremely grave concerns': Nebraska lawmakers ask for public hearing around ICE detention facility
KETV 7 - Nebraska
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August 28, 2025
FORECAST. BACK TO YOU. I LUKE THANKS. MORE NEWS. THE PLAN TO TURN A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY INTO AN ICE DETENTION CENTER SPURS CONTROVERSY. THIS WEEK, A COALITION OF LAWMAKERS QUESTIONED IF THE GOVERNOR EVEN HAS THE AUTHORITY TO DO THAT. A LETTER...
Senator calls push for legislative hearing ‘premature’ on Nebraska-ICE prison plans
Nebraska Examiner
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August 28, 2025
LINCOLN — The chair of the Nebraska Legislature’s Judiciary Committee said Thursday it is “premature” to hold a legislative hearing into Gov. Jim Pillen’s plan to convert a state prison into an immigration detention facility. State Sen. Carolyn...
UNO study shows labor trafficking patterns across Nebraska
KMTV 3 News - Nebraska
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August 28, 2025
OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) – "One of the most interesting findings is often the victims do know the person that is trafficking them so trafficker is using that relationship to exploit and benefit themselves," Teresa Kulig said. UNO study shows labor...
UNK grad comes full circle at the Nebraska State Fair
KNEB 960 AM - Nebraska
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August 28, 2025
The Nebraska State Fair is in full swing, filling the grounds at Fonner Park in Grand Island with the familiar sights, sounds and activities that bring hundreds of thousands of people together each summer. It’s a tradition that dates back...
More than 100 antique tractors displayed at Nebraska State Fair
Central Nebraska Today
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GRAND ISLAND – More than 100 antique tractors are displayed at the Nebraska State Fair. David Zumbrum of St. Libory is the Nebraska State Fair Antique Tractor coordinator. He said that 101 antique tractors are displayed in an area toward the...
Western Nebraska Among America's Hidden Gem Road Trips
Western Nebraska Observer
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August 28, 2025
As late summer travelers pack their bags and hit the open road, a new survey has put Western Nebraska on the map as one of America's best-kept road trip secrets. Gunther Kia recently surveyed 3,011 regular road trippers, asking them to rank the...
Groups say new effort to slash Nebraska property taxes will be ineffective
WOWT 6 - Nebraska
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August 28, 2025
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - A Nebraska senator and another group are responding to a new reform effort by Advocates for All Nebraskans to dramatically slash property taxes, which they deem as “ineffective” and “harmful.” “...frankly, I find (it) very...
Nebraska wins total odds: How will Cornhuskers finish in 2025?
Marco Eagle - Florida
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Nebraska football is looking for its first season of eight or more wins since the 2016 college football season this year, and the Cornhuskers might just have its best roster under third-year coach Matt Rhule. The Cornhuskers finished 7-6 in 2024,...
Does the decline of local news influence our politics? This former U.S. senator thinks so
Editor and Publisher
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Eric Rynston-Lobel | Local News Initiative When Montana voters sent Jon Tester to the United States Senate for the first time in 2006, the Democratic Party also won Senate elections in North Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri, Ohio and West Virginia. At...
College football picks, schedule: Predictions, best bets for Nebraska-Cincinnati, more Week 1 games Thursday
CBS Sports - Florida
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August 28, 2025
After whetting our appetite with a Week 0 amuse bouche of sorts, college football is back in full force with Week 1 action kicking off on Thursday night. There are five straight nights of games over this Labor Day weekend, but we aren't here to...
Telluride Film Festival returns with an eclectic mix of politics, auteur visions and the Boss
Los Angeles Times
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August 28, 2025
In recent years, film festivals haven’t felt all that festive. Audiences have dwindled, streaming has upended viewing habits and the pandemic and Hollywood strikes have rattled the industry, leaving even the most glamorous events to fight for...
Six-decade Omaha election worker celebrated
Nebraska Examiner
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August 28, 2025
OMAHA — Poll worker George Reed has staffed Nebraska’s elections so long that he was manning the polls in 1964 when a Democrat last won all of the state’s Electoral College votes. That 1964 victory by Lyndon Johnson was Reed’s second presidential...
Nebraska lawmakers seek legislative hearing into Nebraska-ICE detention center plans
Nebraska Examiner
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August 27, 2025
LINCOLN — Thirteen progressive state lawmakers called on the chair of the Nebraska Legislature’s Judiciary Committee to host a public hearing into a federal-state plan to morph a state prison into an immigration detention center. The Wednesday...
Nebraska senators demand public hearing on McCook detention facility
KOLN - Nebraska
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August 28, 2025
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - A group of Nebraska senators is calling on Gov. Jim Pillen to hold a public hearing about the new ICE detention facility that will take over the Work Ethic Camp in McCook. In a social media post Wednesday, Sen. Megan Hunt...
'Nebraskans deserve answers': State senators request hearing for ICE detention facility
KETV 7 - Nebraska
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August 27, 2025
AND WE HAVE BREAKING NEWS AT SIX. NEBRASKA STATE SENATOR MEGAN HUNT IS LEADING A COALITION OF LAWMAKERS TO REQUEST A HEARING OVER THE ICE DETENTION FACILITY IN MCCOOK. 13 STATE SENATORS ARE QUESTIONING THE LEGALITY, AUTHORITY AND CONSEQUENCES OF...
South Carolina joins legal effort supporting Florida's immigrant detention facility project
Palmetto State News - South Carolina
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August 27, 2025
Alan Wilson, Attorney General of South Carolina | Attorney General Alan Wilson, SCAlan Wilson, Attorney General of South Carolina | Attorney General Alan Wilson, SC South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced that the state has joined 21...
Extreme Heat In Prisons Brings More Legal Challenges, Pressure On States
Omaha Daily Record - Nebraska
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August 28, 2025
Summer heat is bearing down on U.S. prisons, where temperatures in uncooled cells can climb well into the triple digits. Facing growing pressure from advocacy groups, lawsuits and climate projections that show hotter days ahead, some state prison...
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The Pocahontas Times - West Virginia
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August 27, 2025
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Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #171
Ballotpedia
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August 27, 2025
Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board governance, the politics surrounding it, and education policy. In today’s edition, you’ll find: On the issues: The debate over school...
‘Cornhusker Clink’: 13 Nebraska state senators urge Judiciary Committee to get answers about planned ICE facility
WOWT 6 - Nebraska
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August 28, 2025
LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) - Thirteen state senators are calling on the Nebraska Legislature’s Judiciary Committee to get answers about several key aspects currently not known about the plan to turn a minimum-security prison in Central Nebraska into a...