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WEB5 days ago · BY: Aaron Sanderford - September 30, 2024. OMAHA — Allegations flew Monday in Nebraska’s most competitive U.S. Senate race, with one campaign threatening legal action over campaign advertising and a report about talk of “Hitler Youth.”. Nebraska nonpartisan candidate Dan Osborn’s campaign sent a cease and desist letter to an outside ...
Fischer attacks Osborn as threat to GOP push for Senate control
WEB1 day ago · OMAHA — U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer, who has largely ignored her campaign opponent until recently, called a press conference Thursday and criticized former Omaha union leader Dan Osborn as a nationally backed threat to a possible Republican majority in the Senate. Fischer, a two-term Republican from Lincoln whose family owns a …
War of words in Fischer-Osborn U.S. Senate race in Nebraska
WEB4 days ago · On Monday, he told Nebraska reporters that he owed Fischer’s staff an apology. The letters from Osborn campaign manager Evan Schmeits alleges three ads were placed with “actual malice,” which is part of a higher standard that public figures must prove when alleging libel. Fischer’s campaign spokesman, Derek Oden, criticized Osborn for ...
Annual search for favorite Nebraska-made product narrows to …
WEB2 days ago · LINCOLN — The 2024 competition for “Coolest Thing Made in Nebraska” is now down to four products that are about as far-ranging as it gets. Thousands of votes in round two of the bracket-style contest led to these semifinalists and their Nebraska manufacturers: Public voting for the next round ...
Nebraska GOP closes ranks, endorses federal delegation
WEBAug 18, 2024 · Most would expect the state GOP’s central committee to endorse the five members of Nebraska’s all-GOP federal congressional delegation, as it did Saturday during a meeting in Hastings. But the Nebraska GOP has spent more than two years sorting out disagreements between some in the party’s grassroots and …
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WEBSep 27, 2024 · BY: Cindy Gonzalez - September 24, 2024. LINCOLN — Gov. Jim Pillen has declared a state of emergency in Sioux County for the Bronco Fire, which has burned more than 1,000 acres since Sept. 18, the Governor’s Office said Tuesday. Latest reports indicate that the blaze northwest of Crawford in the Nebraska Panhandle is nearly contained.
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WEBSep 16, 2024 · BY: Justin Hubly - August 16, 2024. The Nebraska Commission of Industrial Relations, a state agency charged with settling disputes between public employees and their government employers, recently made a high-profile decision regarding remote work assignments for state employees that may affect all Nebraskans.
A timeline of the Nebraska Legislature’s summer property tax …
WEBSep 2, 2024 · LINCOLN — Over the span of the last four months, Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen lobbied energetically for significant property tax relief, with a stated goal of attaining 40% total property tax relief by the end of his second year in office. He made clear his intentions in April to call a special session after his previous backed package, Legislative Bill …
Fischer, Trump lead statewide in Fischer’s new Nebraska poll
WEBJul 19, 2024 · LINCOLN — U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer and former President Donald Trump hold sizable statewide leads this summer, according to a Fischer campaign poll shared this week with the Examiner. Fischer held a 26-point edge in the poll of 698 likely Nebraska voters by Torchlight Strategies, a conservative pollster. The survey of landline and cell phone ...