By Joan von Kampen | Editor-in-Chief
“I truly believe that my vote is precious to me. It's significant. I'm jealous about my vote. I don't want anybody taking my vote away from me. I don't want anybody adding people to dilute my vote, and that's the attitude most voters should have.” — Attorney J.L. Spray, arguing before the Nebraska Supreme Court against a law that allows certain U.S. citizens overseas to vote in Nebraska.
The Nebraska Supreme Court hears oral arguments on Sept. 30, 2026. (Screenshot of Nebraska Public Media livestream by Zach Wendling/Nebraska Examiner)
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
By Zach Wendling
Nebraska’s highest court heard arguments Wednesday in a Republican National Committee challenge seeking to overturn a state law allowing certain overseas voters to vote.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
By Juan Salinas II
The Nebraska Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit attempting to disqualify a ballot measure that would cement sex-separate school sports requirements in the state Constitution.
President Donald Trump speaks on the first day of the 2026 Republican National Convention at the American Airlines Center on Sept. 9, 2026, in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
ICYMI
By Juan Salinas II
President Trump’s visit to the Nebraska State Fair’s Pinnacle Bank Expo Center on Monday will be focused on rallying Republicans for Nebraska Sen. Pete Ricketts in a heated race against Dan Osborn.
Cattle crowd a Kansas feedlot in 2022. Plans call for an enormous new operation in the region. (Jill Hummels for Kansas Reflector)
COMMENTARY
By Bill Beachley
I was just reading about a feedlot in Nebraska, near where that state meets Kansas and Colorado. It is set to become the largest in the country, holding in one square mile up to 150,000 head — as many cattle as were driven here in 1886 during the peak of the great drives.
After reading that I did some math. One cow slaughtered yields about 550 pounds of beef, or about a quarter of a metric ton. According to a recent social media post from President Donald Trump, he will allow 300,000 metric tons of beef imported tariff-free from countries not mentioned (mostly not even shown on the JBS website, the mega packing firm controlled by Brazilian billionaire and Trump donor Joesley Batista).
Nebraskans packed a hearing to weigh in on a state-federal plan to convert a Nebraska prison into an immigration detention facility. More than three dozen Nebraskans who could not fit into the room waited in line outside. Sept. 12, 2025. (Photo by Zach Wendling/Nebraska Examiner)
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
By Zach Wendling
The Nebraska Secretary of State’s Office has scheduled a series of hearings in each of Nebraska’s three congressional districts to let the public weigh in on three ballot measures before the Nov. 3 general election.
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