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Nebraska Update

Nebraska Public Media

From the Capitol to your community, Nebraska Public Media’s local journalists bring you top stories and essential context every weekday morning.

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4:22

The Midwest has a surprising number of shrimp farms

Nebraska Update ·

2023/08/07

A group of Midwestern shrimp farmers are on a mission to provide Americans with better-tasting, sustainable shrimp. The industry struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic, but farmers remain hopeful that indoor shrimp farming will come back stronger than ever.

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4:42

Educators Rising aims to help state’s teacher shortage

Nebraska Update ·

2023/07/31

Over 700 teaching positions were vacant or filled with an unqualified individual last year, according to the Nebraska Department of Education. Other issues, like burnout and low teacher pay, are making it hard for teachers to stay in the classroom. An organization called Educators Rising is trying to help fill those positions by encouraging students to overcome these issues and become teachers.

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3:43

Elderberries are a successful niche crop at a crossroads

Nebraska Update ·

2023/07/24

Elderberries are native to the Midwest, but the commercial cultivation of the crop is relatively recent, and saw a big increase during the coronavirus pandemic. That has the burgeoning industry wondering if its future is as a small, niche crop or something bigger.

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4:51

School Choice

Nebraska Update ·

2023/07/21

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4:52

Challenge to abortion, transgender health law gets...

Nebraska Update ·

2023/07/19

A court hearing Wednesday considered the constitutionality of a law restricting both abortion and health care for transgender youth.

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4:38

How much will recent rains help Nebraska's drought?

Nebraska Update ·

2023/07/17

Dryness in the Great Plains began spreading east this year, affecting much of the Midwest and endangering crops, livestock and river transportation. Recent rains have been a god-send, but will it be enough to loosen the years-long drought?

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4:25

Broadband expansion: opportunities and challenges

Nebraska Update ·

2023/07/13

The promise of $405 million will help connect more Nebraskans, but challenges remain.

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4:03

Tax credits jump start Midwest carbon capture projects

Nebraska Update ·

2023/07/10

In an effort to reach zero carbon emissions by 2050, the Biden administration is offering more tax credits for carbon capture sequestration and utilization. The program once expected to cost $3.2 billion now could exceed $100 billion.

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4:03

Congress made SNAP work rules stricter. Kansas did it...

Nebraska Update ·

2023/07/03

Congress expanded work requirements for food assistance during the debt ceiling negotiations, a move that would normally happen in the Farm Bill. Shortly before that, the state of Kansas made similar changes.

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4:07

Visa holdup means foreign nurses can't help hospitals

Nebraska Update ·

2023/06/28

Hospitals across the country have recruited nurses from around the world to make up for U.S. labor shortages. But demand for international workers is delaying visas and slowing the flow of nurses able to come to Kansas.

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1:10

Nebraska getting $400 million for broadband expansion

Nebraska Update ·

2023/06/27

Nebraska will receive more than $400 million in federal infrastructure funding to improve broadband access in the state.

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0:51

Extreme drought, low levels in water towers may lead...

Nebraska Update ·

2023/06/26

Extreme drought, low levels in water towers may lead to complete sprinkler ban

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25:49

Listen: University of Nebraska President Ted Carter

Nebraska Update ·

2023/06/26

University of Nebraska President Ted Carter speaks on tuition increases, politics in education and beer at Memorial Stadium.

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4:45

Iowa is one of a few holdouts in expanding postpartum...

Nebraska Update ·

2023/06/26

For two years, federal funds have been available for states to extend postpartum health care from two months to a full year for moms on Medicaid. The policy is popular across the Midwest, with Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska all adopting an extension. Iowa remains hesitant.

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7:32

Abortion 'abolitionists' want to charge women with...

Nebraska Update ·

2023/06/23

The anti-abortion movement is contending with a growing faction that calls for abortion patients to be criminally punished.

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6:54

Movement or Hostile Takeover: Inside the intraparty...

Nebraska Update ·

2023/06/19

There’s a battle going on within the Nebraska Republican Party. In interviews gathered over months, both current and former officials within the NEGOP say incidents in Sarpy, Dixon and York counties are indicative of a statewide battle between longtime “establishment” officials and “far-right” newcomers.

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4:17

Ancient fish, modern problem: pallid sturgeons and...

Nebraska Update ·

2023/06/12

The pallid sturgeons outlasted dinosaurs, but human changes to the Missouri River nearly wiped out the prehistoric fish. Some experts think the fish’s struggle could signal larger problems on the Big Muddy, especially as climate change accelerates.

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0:47

Flash droughts are becoming a bigger threat to crops,...

Nebraska Update ·

2023/06/07

Last fall the Mississippi River fell to low water levels when a flash drought exacerbated a dry spell in the upper part of the river’s basin. Soon it was more expensive for a grain company to send corn from St. Louis to New Orleans than it was to ship to China.

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3:57

Does the Mississippi River have rights? Some say it...

Nebraska Update ·

2023/06/06

A growing legal movement to grant natural entities like rivers and forests legal rights is gaining traction in the U.S., and environmentalists are now setting their sights on the Mississippi River.

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1:46

Winslow, NE begins to burn flood damaged homes

Nebraska Update ·

2023/06/05

The Winslow Volunteer Fire Department began the process of burning down homes they once committed to protect. The Dodge County community intends to torch around 20 homes and businesses ruined by the massive flood of 2019 in an attempt to clear the flood plain and return the area to green space. Plans to relocate the town have stalled.

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