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According to NBC News, Susan Browne is battling a rare, aggressive cancer while caring for her two adult sons with profound autism — and now she’s facing a $220,000-a-year cut to the Medicaid-funded care they rely on after Nebraska switched to the interRAI assessment system. Her family is far from alone. State data shows 17%…

Nebraska State Sen. Dan Quick said on KSNB that inflation and cuts to SNAP and Medicaid will put more financial pressure on families already struggling with high costs, adding to the kinds of stress that contribute directly to domestic violence. Quick has repeatedly pushed to preserve SNAP access in Nebraska. He introduced legislation in 2025…

Dan Osborn, Independent candidate for US Senate in Nebraska, met with Epstein survivors and their family members as the Epstein Mobile Library made a stop in Omaha on Sunday, Sept. 13. Speaking with reporters after touring the bus, Osborn said he was shocked by the sheer volume of files that have been made public and…

Pete Ricketts tried to make last week’s Nebraska US Senate debate about one question: Is Dan Osborn really an independent? Osborn, meanwhile, used the stage to argue the race is less about left versus right and more about whether wealthy donors, corporate interests and party insiders have too much power in Washington. Here’s how one…

During a press conference on Thursday, Sept. 10, Nebraska State Senator Margo Juarez criticized the Trump administration’s beef import plan, arguing officials should focus on supporting American farmers instead. Sen. Juarez, who represents District 5 in south Omaha, questioned whether imported beef would be clearly labeled for origin, quality and safety. On Aug. 21, the…

Denise Powell argues cuts to Medicaid and ACA subsidies are making an already difficult health care system even more unstable. At a listening session on Social Security and Medicare, hosted on Tuesday, Sept. 8, Powell compared the system to a Jenga tower: pull out the bottom pieces, and “the whole system” gets more wobbly. During…

A proposed 368-megawatt data center east of Kearney drew criticism from residents over its expected water and electricity use, especially in the agriculture-heavy region. Despite pushback, the Kearney City Council approved the project’s conditional use permit Sept. 8 alongside stricter rules for future data centers.

Denise Powell, the Democratic nominee for Congress in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional district, was endorsed Tuesday by the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, a Washington-based nonprofit focused on protecting access to social services for seniors. The organization’s President and CEO, Max Richtman, announced the endorsement Tuesday before a listening session on the subject…

Powell pointed to a VA inspector general report finding staffing shortages at all 139 VA facilities nationwide — and says she’s hearing directly from Nebraska veterans who are struggling to get the care they’ve earned. She also called out cuts affecting health care, food assistance and housing programs for veterans, arguing that Trump’s budget decisions…

Speaking with reporters Thursday, Sept. 3, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen was pressed over his past statements that the ballot initiative process “does not represent the people speaking.” Pillen made the remarks during a press conference calling for legislative changes to petitioning, prompted by recent investigations into possible signature fraud across numerous petitions. The governor, joined…