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A second woman steps forward by name to allege Charles Herbster groped her
OMAHA — A second woman who alleged in a Nebraska Examiner article earlier this month that Nebraska gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster had groped her came forward Friday and allowed her name to be used. Elizabeth Todsen was a 23-year-old employee of State Sen. Dave Murman when she attended the 2019 Elephant Remembers fundraiser for the […]
Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting
Reporters Steve Jordon and Cindy Gonzalez provide live reports from Berkshire Hathaway’s 2022 annual meeting, held Saturday, April 30, at the CHI Health Center convention center in downtown Omaha.
Herbster-Trump rally postponed until Sunday after stormy forecast for Greenwood, Nebraska
GREENWOOD, Nebraska — A stormy weather forecast led Nebraska gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster to postpone his planned Friday night rally with former President Donald Trump, rescheduling the event for Sunday. Details for the rescheduled event were still being worked out when Herbster, wearing a ball cap and suit vest, climbed onto a truck decorated with […]
New Pillen poll shows still shows a tight, three-way race for GOP nomination
LINCOLN — New polling indicates that negative political advertising and negative publicity may be having an impact in the red-hot, three-way race for the Republican nomination for governor. It also indicated that 24% of respondents were still undecided on how they might vote in the May 10 primary. A telephone poll of 505 Republican voters […]
Greater Omaha Chamber selects new leader
The Greater Omaha Chamber Friday announced its new president and CEO: Veta Jeffery, who previously managed the State of Missouri’s community and economic development services. Jeffery replaces David Brown, who earlier announced his retirement after 20 years. Appointed to her former position by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, Jeffery convened public and private sectors and helped […]
Mutual of Omaha to spread downtown footprint beyond library site, sell midtown garages to city
Insurance giant Mutual of Omaha not only intends to relocate its corporate headquarters to the downtown site currently occupied by the W. Dale Clark Library, but it also plans to acquire the city-owned block of land to the east. Lately, that spot — bounded by 13th, 14th, Farnam and Douglas Streets — has been used […]
Hundreds of new Omaha hotel rooms greet Berkshire Hathaway guests — and there’s room at the inn
The Berkie brigade converging in Omaha this weekend will see a vastly different landscape — more downtown apartments, a multimillion-dollar riverfront parks makeover and, notably, a bigger assortment of hotels. Indeed, in the city’s urban core alone, about 600 new hotel rooms have opened since the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting was last held live three […]
Spending on lobbying at the Nebraska Legislature topped a record $20M in 2021
LINCOLN — Spending on lobbyists working the Nebraska Legislature has increased almost seven-fold over the past two decades, with a record $20.3 million spent during the 90-day session of 2021, a state watchdog group says. That amounts translates to about $414,000 for each of the 49 state senators in the Unicameral Legislature. Common Cause Nebraska […]
‘Real work’ begins on $335 million investment to revive areas including North and South Omaha
OMAHA — With the heaviest legislative lifting behind them, key Nebraska lawmakers and Gov. Pete Ricketts gathered Thursday away from the State Capitol, on community turf where a $335 million recovery plan is to turn into action. Meeting at a site in North Omaha, the public officials led a celebratory bill-signing event kicking off what […]
Trump and friends to rally for Nebraska gubernatorial candidate Herbster amid scandal
OMAHA — Nebraska GOP gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster, facing groping allegations from eight women, is hosting a race track rally Friday with former President Donald Trump and friends. The speakers are a who’s who from Trump world: Trump, Kellyanne Conway, who is Herbster’s national campaign manager, and David Bossie of Citizens United, whom Herbster has […]
Railroaders to protest new work scheduling system outside Berkshire Hathaway meeting
OMAHA — Some angry railroaders, upset with a new work scheduling system at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe, will be protesting outside Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting Saturday at the CHI Health Center arena. Locomotive engineers say the new attendance policy, called “Hi Viz,” requires them to be on call 90% of the time and has led […]
Biden asks Congress for $33 billion for Ukraine aid, pleads again for COVID funds
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday asked Congress to approve $33 billion more in funding to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion that has lasted more than two months and claimed thousands of lives. Biden also asked U.S. lawmakers to make it easier for the federal government to sell off assets seized from […]