States are spending more money and creating new incentives to ease the severe child care crisis, with most federal pandemic aid set to dry up in September.
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HDR will develop concepts for a Memorial Stadium renovation and help plan construction, evaluate costs and eventually work alongside a construction manager on the project.
Council members Tueday will rule on TIF aid for Wilkinson Cos.’ planned Interstate 80 development and architectural contracts for expanding the North Platte Recreation Complex and renovating Cody Pool.
Training for diversity, equity and inclusion has become a lucrative industry. The Harvard Business Review estimates U.S. companies spend $8 billion a year on these programs.
LINCOLN — The Nebraska Department of Economic Development has selected this year’s grant recipients under the Civic and Community Center Finan…
LINCOLN — State lawmakers opened debate Friday on a package of bills that proposes to deliver millions of dollars in additional tax credits to blunt the sting of Nebraska’s traditionally high property taxes. The Nebraska Legislature adjourned for the weekend without advancing Legislative Bill 243 but appear poised to do that on Monday. The much-amended […]
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LINCOLN — State Sen. Megan Hunt of Omaha joined with a Lincoln-based legal group in demanding a retraction Friday for a tweet they maintain was defamatory and “knowingly false.” The tweet, from the conservative Nebraska Freedom Coalition, included the hashtag “groomer” and photographs of the senator as a child and her son, who is trans. […]
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Getting a team through to the Final Four is a major boost for mid-major conferences financially, promotionally and for visibility on a national scale. The deeper a team goes in the bracket, the more money goes to their conference. The conferences use the money to upgrade league tournaments and on bolder promotion. Schools often use the windfall on athletic facilities and on-campus video production. The extra money is also a huge boon for better TV deals and exposure that allows them competitive opportunities previously out of reach.
North Platte’s sales tax increases from 1.5% to 2% Saturday to fund voter-approved expansion of the city Recreation Complex, renovation of Cody Pool and relocation of the city’s skate park.
Fewer new electric vehicles will qualify for a full $7,500 federal tax credit later this year, and many will get only half that, under rules proposed Friday by the U.S. Treasury Department.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The financial safety nets millions of older Americans rely on — and millions more young people are counting on — will run sh…
FRIDAY, March 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) – Recreational cannabis is associated with an increase in car crash fatalities but a decrease in opioid-related overdose deaths, according to a study published in the March issue of Social Science & Medicine.
As states continue to tackle abortion law, post-Roe America looks more and more like Crazy Town. From South Carolina, where some legislators s…
Stocks rallied Friday to close out a winning March and first quarter of the year, feats that looked questionable just a couple weeks ago when Wall Street was tumbling in turmoil.
Stocks gain as Wall Street closes out winning March
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Fewer new electric vehicles will qualify for a full $7,500 federal tax credit later this year, and many will get only half that, under rules proposed Friday by the U.S. Treasury Department.
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North Platte City Council approval would clear the way to fill the I-80 interchange’s northeast quadrant with a Fat Dogs truck stop, restaurant, hotel, retail space and Wilkinson’s corporate headquarters.
FRIDAY, March 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. public health officials want high-risk individuals who haven’t been vaccinated for mpox — previously called monkeypox — to do so before a potential resurgence of the virus in the coming months.
A day after taking office in January, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen withdrew his state from the Electronic Registration Information Center, an interstate data-sharing compact aimed at helping states keep clean voter rolls. Asked about the move a few days later by a conservative radio host, Allen, a Republican, at first talked about privacy […]
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LINCOLN —The USDA is making $31 million in grants available to help farmers and ranchers access new and better markets, in hopes of adding mor…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture will provide approximately $123 million in additional, automatic financial assistance for qual…
LINCOLN — A new state audit is questioning whether state agencies properly spent millions of dollars of pandemic-related federal funds, raising the possibility that Nebraska might need to repay those funds. “They’re big dollar items, and they should not happen,” said State Auditor Mike Foley on Friday. A 244-page, annually required report on spending of […]
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FRIDAY, March 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For men with one high-risk factor, initiating post-radical prostatectomy salvage radiation therapy (sRT) when prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels are greater than 0.25 ng/mL is associated with an increased risk for all-cause mortality (ACM), according to a study published online March 1 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.