Showing posts with label Nebraska. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nebraska. Show all posts

Monday, August 24, 2026

Nebraska school district asks police to stop using shock gloves on students

“I can’t even imagine walking down the hallway and seeing a peer of mine being electrocuted in a place that is supposed to be a safe space for students,” said Nora Wessel, a senior at Omaha Central high school. “Yet, this is now a very real possibility. These are adults we are supposed to be able to trust, but these weapons create a barrier for our students to turn to resource officers when needed.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/22/omaha-nebraska-school-district-shock-gloves-police


 

Friday, December 12, 2025

Trump Administration Shifts Guidance for Superfund Lead Cleanup — ProPublica

The Biden administration lowered the guidance for so-called removal management levels to 200 parts per million. 

The Trump administration has said its new guidance, which raised them to 600 parts per million, would speed cleanups by providing clearer direction and streamlining investigations of contaminated sites. But environmental advocates said it only accelerates project completion by cleaning up fewer properties…

https://www.propublica.org/article/omaha-nebraska-lead-superfund-epa-trump 


 

Saturday, April 6, 2024

Trump BEGS GOP For Electoral Help in His Favor

Donald Trump is pressuring Nebraska to change their electoral process in his favor. The proposed change would move the state to a winner-take-all allocation system from the current system that splits electoral votes between statewide winners and winners of congressional districts.

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

NE State Senator Resurrects Myth That Furries Are Taking Over Your Kid’s School Bathrooms

…Bruce Bostelman said he was "a little shocked" that schools were providing litter boxes for demanding children who self-identity as animals. (They are not, but the baseless rumor has inexplicably persisted across state lines in recent months regardless.) …


Sunday, May 30, 2021

Outrage as regulators let pesticides from factory pollute US town for years | Nebraska | The Guardian

… While regulators sample water and soil, many area residents worry that the beef cattle operation adjacent to the AltEn plant has also been contaminated. They wonder how much the animals there may have been exposed to pesticide concentrates through their feed and water, and if people who consumed meat from those animals may have long-term health consequences…


Thursday, August 8, 2019

Nebraska GOP Tells State Senator To Leave Party After He Condemns White Supremacy - HuffPost

The Nebraska Republican Party called on state Sen. John McCollister to quit the party after he accused his fellow Republicans of "enabling white supremacy" by staying silent on President Donald Trump's hateful rhetoric. McCollister, a lifelong Republican, made headlines Monday when he condemned members of his party in a series of tweets for failing to speak out against "a Republican president who continually stokes racist fears in his base." ....
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nebraska-republican-party-john-mccollister_n_5d498603e4b0d291ed06f104


Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Republican state lawmaker criticizes his party for 'enabling white supremacy' - CNN Politics

Nebraska state legislator Rep. John McCollister said that he didn't think all Republicans are racist or white supremacists, but "the Republican Party is COMPLICIT to obvious racist and immoral activity inside our party."....
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/05/politics/nebraska-lawmaker-white-supremacy-tweets-trnd/index.html

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Republican lawmaker hedges—three times—when asked 'Is every American entitled to eat?'

Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are on pretty much the same page when it comes to nutrition assistance programs: cut cut cut. After years of House Republicans pushing big cuts to food stamps, Trump’s budget proposes $193 billion in cuts over 10 years. Whether they want to take food out of the mouths of more than 40 million struggling Americans, many of them children, is the kind of thing Republicans should expect to get some questions about, but Nebraska Republican Rep. Adrian Smith seems to have been surprised when NPR’s Scott Simon went to the heart of the issue....
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1667247







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