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LINCOLN - Attorney General Mike Hilgers is pleased to announce Grace Johnson will serve as the Liaison for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons for the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office. Earlier this year, the Unicameral funded this position to improve investigations and reporting for missing and murdered persons in Native communities.

Arrests/Incidents On 10/04/2023 at 3:59 p.m., an officer responded to the 300 block of West 3rd Street for a non-injury accident. Both drivers were cited.

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Lincoln - Governor Jim Pillen issued the following statement in response to an update provided by Secretary of State Bob Evnen that signatures collected for a repeal of LB753 (Opportunity Scholarship Act) had met the necessary threshold for placing the issue on the ballot in November 2024.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement after President Biden delivered remarks at the White House regarding Hamas’s attack against Israel: “As President Biden said, the atrocities carried out by the Iranbacked terrorist group Hamas are ‘sheer evil.’

Lincoln-Nebraska Farm Bureau (NEFB) is urging farmers and ranchers to join the organization in submitting comments on the EnvironmentalProtectionAgency’s (EPA) proposed new rule that heavily increases limitations and regulations on pesticides. Earlier this year, the EPA released the “Draft Herbicide Strategy Framework” in response to extensive litigation about the agency’s noncompliance with the Endangered Species Act (ESA). NEFB says the more than 90-page proposal outlines a new method of pesticide labeling, adding highly burdensome restrictions to herbicide use in many areas.

The five remaining committee members of Old West Days put another outstanding event in the books. It was bitter sweet to hear all the stories of how performers and spectators came to be a part of Old West Days over the years.

Perspectives Aristotle is said to have referred to the female as a mutilated male, and this philosophy seems to have carried forward into much more modern times. In 1977, official FDA guidelines recommended that women of “childbearing potential” be excluded from early stage clinical trials.

America was brought to the brink of a government shutdown. This happened, in part, because President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer squeezed the calendar.