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Editor of the Flatwater Free Press, Nebraska’s first statewide journalism nonprofit. Ex-columnist for the Omaha World-Herald. Purveyor of artisanal tweets.
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An 0-5 team on the road, 500 miles from home...and the visiting crowd is loud enough to disrupt the Northwestern offense.
Say what you will about Nebraska football, and I sure have. But that’s devotion.
#Huskers
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Omaha’s Symone Sanders: Excellent pursuit speed. Quick off the edge. Definitely gonna sack your anti-dairy protester quarterback.
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I took this just before he told me to get off his bridge.
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God it could be so nice if we could take a step back as a state and say, forget the politics for a second. Masks will save lives. Masks will save lives. They will. Let’s do that thing, the life saving thing, and not this other depressing thing.
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This was the absolute mountaintop moment of modern Bears fandom.
We have been tumbling down Everest every moment since.
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Fifty people marched in Harvard. Not the university. The tiny town in south central Nebraska.
It is easy to get lost in the strife and miss the main point: Something is really happening right now.
Nice story
@gaarder
.
In one small Nebraska town, the only black man organized a Black Lives Matter rally that drew many of his neighbors.
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This, right here, is a Veterans Day story that needs to be told and heard.
Thank a veteran for sure. But also fight for that veteran so that he or she receives what he or she is owed.
Veterans haven't received GI Bill benefits for months due to a series of information technology glitches at the Department of Veterans Affairs
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Pretty sure a million Nebraskans would strap up and try to tackle the Devil himself right now if Scott Frost asked them to.
#Huskers
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An incredibly smart reframing of gun debate from
@NickKristof
, who argues we should treat guns like automobiles.
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It's time to announce the next chapter in Nebraska journalism.
I'm the new editor of the Flatwater Free Press, a statewide journalism nonprofit devoted to telling important investigative & feature stories and sharing them with all Nebraskans -- no matter where you get your news.
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Read. Share. Mask up. We need to stop effing around Omaha. The smartest people at the University of Nebraska Medical Center are telling us so.
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We really need some sort of update this morning from the city of Omaha regarding air quality, what was burning up in that chemical fire, if it’s safe to be outside, etc.
I assume that’s coming quickly.
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Every f**king NBA player can get a test but my friends showing symptoms with souses and children and mortgages can’t.
Its truly despicable, and the lack of testing is a national scandal and I will never, ever forget it.
The Lakers confirm two players have tested positive for the coronavirus
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Omaha restaurant owners are having to decide whether to stay closed and risk their business or reopen and risk health of their staff/customers.
It’s insane, particularly as Omaha cases spike.
Public health is the responsibility of elected leaders and appointed experts, not chefs.
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An anonymous subscriber sent
@OWHnews
cookies today. The note said: “We want to express our gratitude for what you do, and let you know you’re in our thoughts.”
That muffled sound you hear is a room full of cynical reporters trying hard not to cry. And then munching cookies.
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Yanqi Xu didn't deserve a damn bit of this from Nebraska's governor.
I'm struck that Yanqi - rather than being Chinese & "what more do you need to know" as Pillen says below - embodies many of the loftiest ideals American leaders say they hold dear. (1/3)
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This is my great uncle Lloyd raking hay. On Sunday morning. At 86 years old. In related news, Lloyd isn't on Twitter.
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Last night I watched as a 40-person wedding party crammed into a party bus. Zero masks. I looked inside at the wedding reception. 150 more. No masks. I walked to Old Market. A 2nd party bus passed me. Crammed. No masks. Nice night. Easy to eat/drink outside. Most dined indoors.
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Hi everyone. Here is a column announcing that, after 13 years, I’m leaving the World-Herald. I have loved telling Nebraska’s stories and will miss it.
I’m also so excited for what’s next.
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If there’s one good thing that comes out of this, it’s that more Nebraskans are reading
@yanqixu_
’s work that prompted our governor to dismiss her based on where she was born.
Nitrate is seeping into our drinking water. It’s likely harming kids — rural Nebraska kids most of all.
New
@flatwaterfreep
: Yanqi Xu wrote story about wells on Gov. Pillen’s hog farms testing sky high for nitrate, which can seep into drinking water.
Pillen response on KFAB: He said Yanqi is Chinese and “What more do you need to know?”
Our response:
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It has been a long, strange week at the
@flatwaterfreep
. I’m so proud of
@yanqixu_
. I’m so proud of the staff. I’m so proud to work for a place that will stand up for its employees, and stand up for ideals bigger than us, even when it’s scary. Especially when it’s scary.
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This isn’t a drill. Covid is hammering Omaha, the suburbs, my hometown Red Cloud, all Nebraska. Exhausted nurses, difficulty transferring patients to nearly full city hospitals, fear that health systems will soon be overwhelmed.
It’s happening here. Now.
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A slightly terrifying thread regarding my health...
I had a heart attack Monday morning. It was caused by a blood clot that either snuck in thru a tiny hole in my heart or may... have been caused because my blood clots too well. (Thanks for overachieving, blood.)
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Attention Omaha restaurants: Fire up your propane heaters. Clear the snow from your patios, porches and roof decks. Open up your outdoor dining, please. Those of us who are trying to make our way safely thru these last two months before COVID vaccination will love you forever.
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Put on your best tie, Willa, you are headed to Washington D.C. The Nebraska Legislature just voted 47-1 (!) to replace statues of William Jennings Bryan and J. Sterling Morton at the U.S. Capitol with two new statues: Cather and Standing Bear.
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The Kid Rock show hasn’t even ended yet downtown and there are already angry drunk men on cell phones wading onto Dodge Street with all the confidence of gentlemen who have never been sideswiped by a truck from Council Bluffs doing 52 in a 25.
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Column today: HBO got beat for one of journalism's top prizes this yr. So did Nat Geo.
The winner? 11 UNL students.
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Local man pretty sure he’s smarter than World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control, Food & Drug Administration, National Insitutes of Health, Mayo Clinic, University of Nebraska Medical Center, every national, state & local public health official in country etc etc
Kelly Jensen doesn't believe masks stop COVID's spread, despite scientific studies that support their use.
More from
@Jess_Wade_OWH
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When adjusted for population, Nebraska’s Covid case numbers are nearly double that of Michigan’s.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan orders high schools, colleges to halt in-person classes; closes restaurants to indoor dining as virus spikes
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I plan on getting back to writing by Friday. I have a couple columns to write, including one about a 39-year-old heart attack survivor. Me.
Stay tuned for more major life announcements from me next week. My still ticking heart appreciates every last one of you very, very much.
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This. Yanqi deserves better than this. So do Nebraskans.
If you don’t like our stories, take issue with facts. Do an interview. Tell us your side of story. Many options!
One shouldn’t be to smear an award-winning reporter because she’s Chinese.
You’d think that would be obvious.
This is outrageous. Nebraska Governor
@TeamPillen
doesn't like story about him in
@flatwaterfreep
, goes on radio to say, "The author is from communist China. What more do you need to know?" Plenty.
@yanqixu_
deserves better. So does your state
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Announcing my own personal 2020 Time Person of Year: Every single last
@NebraskaMed
health care provider.
They have provided Nebraskans their world-class expertise and their world-class care during this, the worst of years.
Our 1st 6 to receive the COVID-19 vaccine!
Brandi Johansen, COVID unit nurse manager
Dan Johnson, MD, critical care anesthesiologist
Martin Gilgenast, phlebotomist
Komi Gbedjeha, resp. therapist
Ross Davidson, MD, UNMC chief pulmonary critical care fellow
Kalen Knight, ER nurse
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The CEO of Nebraska Medicine is warning that intensive care beds will soon be swamped in our city if we don’t work hard, now, to flatten the curve.
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I’m proud to be the editor of the
@flatwaterfreep
every day. But today my buttons are bustin’ off my coat.
We took a stand.
We fought on behalf of press freedom and the Nebraska public’s right to know.
We did so at considerable risk.
We prevailed.
We won.
We sued Nebraska over what we believe was an illegal charge for public documents -- $44,000 for a routine keyword search of emails.
Today, a judge agreed. "... under Respondents’ proffered interpretation, there would
be few limits on what may be included in the fee."
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The President of the United States pays less money in federal income taxes every year than every middle class Nebraskan.
In fact, he has paid $0 in income taxes in 10 of the past 15 years.
Zero.
Nothing.
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We unionized today. I’m so proud of my co-workers and so thankful for the unity evidenced by this eye-popping result.
Wow.
Final tally:
YES -71
NO -5
A resounding victory for journalists & journalism in Nebraska!
Thank you
@owhguild
,
@news_guild
,
@CWAUnion
Thank you current and former staffers, and all our newfound friends from across the country.
Subscribe!
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Will try to get clarity on this…but presuming raising state sales tax to highest in US would disproportionately affect residents of 2 largest cities & anyone who doesn’t own property.
It would greatly aid farmers/landowners, though # of Nebraska farmers who own land is falling.
Gov. Pillen preparing a pitch to raise state sales tax rate from 5.5 cents to 7.5 cents, in quest to cut property taxes.
From
@paulhammelNE
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I'm proud to be Yanqi's editor. Honored. No matter what any governor says, no matter how much our leaders deflect factual stories by trying to other her and dismiss her, I ride with Yanqi. Today. Tomorrow. Every day.
You should, too.
Read Matt's column:
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Heart update: I now have a piece of titanium about the size of a dime covering the hole in the middle of my heart.
The stupidly sci-fi procedure to insert it took an hour. A day later, I’m out of hospital and on couch.
There’s never been a better time to binge Ken Burns’ Vietnam.
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We do, indeed, love Husker Football, the
@flatwaterfreep
and the First Amendment. (And the
@DailyNeb
, always and forever.)
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It’s my 40th birthday today. I went on a run this morning (4.0 miles of course), & got a lovely birthday phone call from friends that delayed me from reaching my turnaround spot until precisely
8 am. The bells tolled as I snapped this photo. It felt...right.
Stay safe everyone.
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They’re boarding up the downtown Omaha hotel next door.
Sitting here thinking: We can pretend this is about the past 60 hours or admit this is about the past 60 years, an ugly history feeding directly into the killing of a young black man last night.
I’m terrified for our city.
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In his final days on Earth, Mike Leick invited TV cameras into his hospital room and did interviews begging his fellow Nebraskans to get vaccinated and avoid his fate.
He died Monday, surely hoping that his legacy will include saving the lives of strangers who heard his story.
Before his death, Mike Leick was urging people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Now his family is asking people to get their shots in his memory.
Mike died Monday from COVID complications. His lungs were damaged beyond recovery.
From
@JulieAnderson41
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There are 415 people from 92 Nebraska towns inside one room in Kearney talking, scheming, fighting to build a state where every single kid gets stellar early childhood education...which research shows will help them & help our economy.
It’s an inspiration.
#ThrivingChildren2019
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My most unpopular Omaha opinion: There's not a damn thing wrong with roundabouts.
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Nbd just a sellout crowd of 350 people in a barn fighting together for the future of Nebraska journalism.
What a night. I’m so grateful. I’m so tired. I’m so excited to do it all over again. Here comes Year 3 of the
@flatwaterfreep
!
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Imagine being called to mic. Imagine revealing love, fear, anger, nuance, pain, empathy. Imagine sprinkling in Civil War & civil rights history. Imagine speaking to Atlanta teens with the power to also reach a white son of Nebraska homesteaders.
All in 8:20.
That's leadership.
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Sometimes heroes don't wear capes. Sometimes they buy their small-town Nebraska newspaper. Congratulations to Alana Kellen, the 25-year-old owner, editor, reporter, photographer, copy editor, sales staff and deliverer of the Madison Star Mail.
Story:
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This is a story Omahans should read today while thinking about the following:
1. Charles Schwab is reportedly buying Omaha’s TD Ameritrade today. HQ and jobs are at risk.
2. The World-Herald used to have an award-winning business section.
3. The OWH now has one business reporter.
Frayed communities, an uninformed public, and a national crisis
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The woman who leads the biocontainment unit at the Med Center, a world expert in infectious diseases, is worried about Douglas County hospitalization levels and practically begging Omahans to wear masks.
Be safe this weekend, friends.
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The Nebraska athletic department is paying Scott Frost nearly an extra $8 million not to coach for 19 more days.
I realize football is life and money grows on trees and all that but that’s insane.
It’s insane.
Trev Alberts will confirm but Nebraska is honoring the full remainder of Frost’s contract. Almost $16 million.
#huskers
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Feels like Sen. Erdman is unwittingly proving the need for this position.
A western Nebraska state senator recently criticized the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s plan to hire a diversity vice chancellor, saying it bodes poorly for “white Christian conservative males.”
SUBSCRIBER PLUS:
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Join
@mattwynn
and I in a lifelong social distancing from Wheatfields.
Diner where I once, regrettably, paid to eat closed due to "Virus hysteria."
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Let's give Covid-19 a name and a face, to honor its victims, and to grasp the reality that this virus has cut short nearly 200,000 distinct and precious lives.
Today his name is Tom Vint. You read his Husker football stories. Rest in peace, Tom.
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I'm happy to report that emails continue to pour into
@flatwaterfreep
expressing support for the FFP reporter Gov. Pillen originally targeted as well as her important stories on nitrate in small-town Nebraska groundwater & drinking water.
Thank you, Nebraskans. We appreciate it.
Gov. Pillen sidesteps a question about apologizing to a reporter for saying her work should be ignored since she grew up "in communist China."
From
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I am proud as punch to say my column about a small town radio show won the 2019 Great Plains Journalism award for feature writing.
Let’s hear it for Party Line, the O’Neill radio show that can and does sell...everything.
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I’m just gonna assume brown is locusts
See that bright splash of green in eastern Nebraska?
You don't want to be there. That's the high flood risk category
See that red? You don't want to be there. That's a blizzard.
See that blue? You don't want to be there. That's near blizzard.
See the brown. You don't want to be
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The next time somebody knowingly tells you that "news is dead" or "kids don't read news" consider this: the Omaha World-Herald's single largest digital viewership group is 25-34 year-olds. Yes, that's right. Millennials. Who make up nearly a quarter of our digital audience.
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I think we got Marty back to 1985
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We live across from the Hilton Garden Inn, aka Ole Miss baseball headquarters. Roughly 1,327 Rebs have already drunkenly waded across Dodge Street and nearly been clipped by a car.
Rebs hate the crosswalk.
I am shooting photos. One day I will have a show at the Joslyn.
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Listen, I get the fatigue. I feel it myself. But we need to do be better. We need local and state leaders to tighten restrictions and enforce mask mandates, because more and more lives depend on that different path.
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Today’s the day. The
@flatwaterfreep
is fighting the state to get records that may tell us something about how we regulate — or don’t — nitrate seeping into our water & potentially causing pediatric cancer.
It’s a crucial day for Nebraskans’ right to know.
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The Mormon Church is buying up an incredible amount of Nebraska land, and now owns almost the entire northern half of one Nebraska county.
@flatwaterfreep
story from
@destinyherbers
on what they are doing with it — and how they are paying taxes, and not paying taxes.
Who’s buying the most Nebraska land? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A church nonprofit bought 57,500 acres in past 5 years, FFP analysis shows.
It now owns as much land as there is in Douglas and Sarpy counties. Combined.
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We live across from a Hilton Garden Inn. Tonight a couple was unloading in front of the hotel. Typical stuff. Bag. 2nd bag. A few plastic sacks.
Then she pulled out a homemade sign. The sign said:
Welcome Back
From Prison
Sandy
Welcome Back Sandy probably would have sufficed.
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The average Nebraska teacher makes $47k, according to Dept of Ed.
If filing singly, this teacher is seeing roughly $23 more per paycheck this year.
I’m not judging the relative gratefulness of these teachers. I have no idea about that.
But that’s their tax cut amount, I believe.
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Gov. Heineman in story:
"When you're the governor, you're a publicly elected official and your records are subject to (public records) requests...I think that's important, because the public has a right to know what a governor is doing and what kinds of emails that we get."
New
@flatwaterfreep
: Gov. Jim Pillen's staff has taken unprecedented step to shield Pillen's words from public, citing "executive privilege" as reason to withhold emails Pillen sent.
That's likely never happened before, say six public officials.
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Ordering curbside from
@Block16Omaha
today to support this decision, and also because mmmmmmm pulled pork roll.
We will no longer be offering dine in until further notice. Please wear a mask when entering the restaurant and keep it on. No need to pull it down when ordering! We offer phone in, walk in, curbside and on line ordering. Thanks for the support. Covid sucks.
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The federal pharmacy program has roughly 60,000 unused first doses in Nebraska.
Time to get vaccinated, friends.
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I voted. You should vote. Voting is good. Not voting is bad. Informed voting is the very best.
#voting
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49 states have determined that sharing this information is legal.
Nebraska’s interpretation of its medical privacy law makes it the only state to not provide COVID statistics in most counties. From
@WillBauer_NPM
and visuals from me:
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The leak is a leak. Interesting.
The news is the biggest Supreme Court news in a half-century, something that could reshape the rights of generations of Americans.
Momentous news. Earth shattering.
If you’re focused on leak today you are doing so on purpose, or doing it wrong.
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Chef Dave Utterback and his restaurant Yoshitomo made some Omaha history today, when he became the city’s first-ever James Beard finalist.
And he did it with sushi.
In America’s most landlocked place.
That’s…badass.
Proud to be from Omaha today, and proud to see this moment finally come.
@davidyoshitomo
@SushiYoshitomo
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On behalf of the entire state of Nebraska, I would like to offer thanks to the Oregon coaching staff for hating extra points.
#Huskers
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Bombs in the mail. A good time to state what should be obvious: Violent rhetoric sometimes leads to violence itself.
We have a right to hate. We have a right to publicly hate.
But we also have a responsbility -- all of us -- to understand that words can & do have consequences.
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We have gotten to a place where Jennifer feels comfortable posting this for everyone to see.
This complete absence of empathy — this inability to see fellow humans as human — is to me the single scariest thing about the present.
We need to fight it. In others. In ourselves.
Just another day on the
@JournalStarNews
Facebook page with fellow citizens telling reporters, photographers and editors they deserve to be murdered for doing the work they love.
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This statement from Gov. Ricketts mirrors the bill that narrowly failed in the Nebraska Legislature last session. That bill had no carve out for rape or incest.
It’s worth noting that 7 of 10 Americans disagree with him on this point, according to Pew.
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Happy weekend to everyone except those who make false accusations about a
@flatwaterfreep
reporter on State of Nebraska government letterhead while transparently attempting to intimidate a group of journalists.
Column from
@flatwaterfreep
director
@mattwynn
. An FFP reporter set out to ask 5 members of parole board a straightforward Q: Why are you missing parole board hearings?
Instead of answering, they sent a letter suggesting the reporter had committed a crime.
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Confirmed: Springsteen was in Red Cloud area, and shot what appears to be a somber Super Bowl ad at a spot every RC kid like me visited on the regular...the center of the continental United States, which is a few miles south of town.
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America’s best-prepared hospital that is nearly overwhelmed is our own Nebraska Medicine.
A good summation of what’s going on inside our world-class hospital that now has 10 floors filled with Covid patients.
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I'm so sick of us blaming our problems on weakest among us, those least likely to be able to defend themselves. It is weak. It is childish.
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A bar in Lincoln, Nebraska, explodes as Iowa State clinches the massive upset of Oklahoma. Some hate never dies.
#Huskers
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We started
@flatwaterfreep
to do big, ambitious things. I'm so pleased to show you the 1st story in what we will be a months-long series, "Who's Buying Nebraska?"
Hint: It ain't Farmer Brown.
That first story 👇
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I woke up this morning, did about 20 minutes of own research on my phone in the bathroom, listened to a Joe Rogan podcast, read a page of an Ayn Rand book, joined the Lambeau Truthers Facebook page and now I know the Packers won 56-10.
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A thread on beggining of my phone interview with Sen. Steve Erdman of Bayard. I will recreate as best I can.
I left an interview request with his aide. He called me back on his cell.
The first question he asked me:
"Have you ever been to Western Nebraska?"
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It should be pointed out: What is happening right now in the Old Market is peaceful and powerful.
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I want to say something about a bridge.
When it was built, people scoffed, guffawed, called it a waste of tax money, a bridge to nowhere.
I walked it Jan. 1. It was packed. Families. Joggers. Walkers. Omahans of all colors and identities and checking account balances. 1/5
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Nice news just now:
@HenryCordes
& I won the Sorensen Award for Nebraska Journalism for our Goodwill Omaha project.
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Thread: The Trump administration’s public health leaders were urging the state of Nebraska to do a statewide mask mandate in August and reduce indoor gatherings/limit indoor dining this fall.
Every week, NE Gov. Pete Ricketts receives a detailed report from the WH covid task force. Along with stats, it includes state-specific recommendations for fighting the virus. Neither the White House nor governor have opted to share these publicly.
So I put in a records request.
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This is happening regularly in Omaha as we broke our Covid case record Thursday, then broke it again Friday, then again Saturday. As the virus spreads unchecked, as hospitalizations TRIPLE, as death counts rise, as exhausted doctors beg us to stop.
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This is a US senator from Nebraska refusing to take public position on a hugely important bill 4 days before likely vote. I mean...come on.
Ben Sasse asked about health care at Koch summit: “This session is on the record, right? There’s press here? I have nothing to announce”
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In which a pair of googly eyes, a “Fortenberry” turned into “Fartenberry” and a Facebook like lead to an congressional email to the UNL chancellor & an ethics complaint!
In other words: 2018. America.
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We need to start by listening to the experts.
“If what you are doing isn’t working, you need to do something different.”
— Dr. James Lawler, director at UNMC’s Global Center for Health Security.
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Maybe Nebraska got a federal research grant to figure out all the different ways you can lose a football game.
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Seward County Sheriff, in email copied to Seward County Attorney, denied the
@flatwaterfreep
public records requests to see body cam/dash cam footage of every stop in which drivers’ money allegedly disappeared.
I want to highlight one denial that particularly rankles me 🧵
New
@flatwaterfreep
: Drivers who had money seized during Seward County traffic stops allege some cash went missing. The ex-public defender has heard similar allegations.
The sheriff says it’s impossible, but denied requests to release footage of stops.
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Boy it sure would be nice if the most powerful country in the history of civilization could figure out how to mass produce all the stuff we need to quickly and widely test — you know, like pretty much every well-running country in the world has been doing for months now.
It took one Sarpy County woman 8 days to receive the results of her coronavirus test.
As cases spike in other parts of the country, some labs and testing sites are dealing with a shortage of supplies and longer turnaround times for tests
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Tomorrow morning over at
@flatwaterfreep
we are publishing one of the most bananas small-town Nebraska stories I have ever seen.
And I have seen some things.
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Big jump in reported Douglas County vaccinations over the weekend. (I presume related to delayed reporting.) Now: 69.9% of adults in Nebraska's most populous county have had at least one dose of a COVID vaccine. The progress in Omaha has been slow, but there is indeed progress.
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There is no good way to spin this. Alden taking over Lee, which owns nearly every daily newspaper in Nebraska, would accelerate cost cutting and further wound our state's news media. As a journalist and a lifelong Nebraskan, I hope this doesn't happen.
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@NE_Examiner
Am I reading that right?
Is Mike Groene, who took close-up photos of a young staffer without her knowledge and then saved them on his computer with captions of a sexually suggestive nature, comparing himself to…
Jesus Christ?
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