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Smith encourages Third District students to apply for Youth Advisory Council

News Staff

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Adrian Smith (R-NE) is currently accepting applications for the 2025-2026 Third District Youth Advisory Council and encourages high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors to submit their applications by June 27th.

Fischer, colleagues introduce bill to stand up for Israel at United Nations

News Staff

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) joined Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), in introducing the Stand with Israel Act to cut off U.S.

USDA expediting $10 billion in direct economic assistance to agricultural producers

News Staff

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, on National Agriculture Day, announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is issuing up to $10 billion directly to agricultural producers through the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program (ECAP) for the 2024 crop year.

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Gov. Pillen signs executive order, support for Trump immigration policy

Ncj Staff Report

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

LINCOLN — Friday, Governor Jim Pillen signed an executive order establishing the Support for Federal Immigration Policy Implementation for the state of Nebraska. The document outlines actions to be undertaken by state agencies to effectuate the executive orders issued Jan. 20 by President Donald J.

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Senator files term limits resolution

Rick Holtz

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

LINCOLN — Senator Loren Lippincott (district 34) has filed Resolution 21 (LR21) for Nebraska to join the states calling for a convention for proposing a congressional term limits amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The effort is being spearheaded by the nonpartisan, nonprofit, U.S.

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School data breached nationally

Rick Holtz

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

FULLERTON — PowerSchool, a cloud-based software platform used by schools across the country, announced that they became aware of a data breach that affected some of its clients last month.Unauthorized access to the company’s platforms began on Dec. 19 and ended on Dec.

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Voters send message at polls

News Staff

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

NANCE COUNTY — Americans across the country went to the polls on Tuesday to decide the direction of the future.Nance County residents returned 1,864 ballots in this week’s General Election. Voter turnout in the county was an eye-popping 77.44 percent. Nebraska’s statewide voter turnout was 73.

Plenty of contested races on ballot

Ncj Staff Report

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Your vote matters and there are plenty of races and ballot initiatives up for grabs on the election ballot.A sample ballot appears on page 9 of today’s newspaper. Not all races will appear on all ballots.Below are a list of contested races on the General Election ballot.

Officials: Not a sanctuary county

Rick Holtz

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

FULLERTON — Don’t trust everything you read online.Nance County official want to make it clear that Nance County is not a sanctuary county when it comes to people entering the United States illegally. The Nance County Supervisors passed a resolution reaffirming that fact at their Sept. 24 meeting.

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Winner Take All conversation may not be over

Rick Holtz

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

LINCOLN — Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen is open to calling a special session to tackle Winner Take All, but he wants to know he has the votes first.