By Joan von Kampen and Zach Wendling | Editor-in-chief and Reporter
“The City Council is under no obligation to bypass their processes for placing petitions on the ballot because of a missed deadline.” - Lincoln City Attorney Yohance Christie, regarding the fate of petitions from the Good Government Lincoln campaign.
Lincoln City Attorney Yohance Christie during a hearing where the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office is challenging a Lincoln city ordinance enacted in response to a new state minimum wage law at the Lancaster County Courthouse on Thursday, July 2, 2026, in Lincoln. (Pool photo by Kenneth Ferriera/Lincoln Journal Star)
ELECTION 2026
By Zach Wendling
LINCOLN — Lincoln City Attorney Yohance Christie announced Thursday that the deadline has passed for any proposed Lincoln City Charter amendments to go to voters this November.
Gov. Jim Pillen surveys burned land in Nebraska on Saturday, March 14, 2026. One person died as four major fires continued to burn in western and central Nebraska. (Photo courtesy of the Governor’s Office)
LABOR & GROWTH
By Zach Wendling
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is postponing the filing and paying of 2026 taxes for affected Nebraskans and businesses in 22 counties due to wildfires and storms this year. Affected taxpayers have until Feb. 1, 2027, to file their tax returns and pay any taxes originally due during the disaster periods.
The Nebraska State Capitol. Sept. 12, 2025. (Photo by Zach Wendling/Nebraska Examiner)
COMMENTARY
By Chris Chappelear
"Nebraska is facing a slow-motion repeat of Kansas' disastrous 2012 tax-cut experiment," Chris Chappelear writes. "Kansas slashed corporate and income taxes on the promise that economic growth would make up the difference. It didn't."
The U.S. Department of Justice logo is displayed on a speaker’s podium. (Photo by Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight)
D.C. BUREAU
By Shauneen Miranda
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday sued Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington over laws that allow immigrants in the country without legal status to pay in-state college tuition in the states where they live. President Donald Trump’s administration has now sued 21 states over such laws.
A wave of new state laws may be making it harder for private equity to scoop up hospitals and other healthcare companies. (Photo by Anne-Marie Caruso/New Jersey Monitor)
HEALTH
By Anna Claire Vollers
The number of private equity-involved healthcare deals has declined since last year, and the value of those deals in the first half of 2026 is lower than it was for the same time in 2025, according to a new report.
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