By Erin Bamer | Reporter
“While I thought the additional scrutiny and request for more conversation at the last minute was unfair, I could also recognize it wasn’t ‘no,’ … It was still a request to learn.” - Nebraska State Board of Education Vice President Liz Renner, about a prior vote to postpone approval of a North Omaha nonpublic school.
State Board of Education President Elizabeth Tegtmeier, left, and state Education Commissioner Brian Maher. March 8, 2024. (Zach Wendling/Nebraska Examiner)
EDUCATION
By Erin Bamer
LINCOLN — After a four-day delay, the Nebraska State Board of Education unanimously passed conditional approval of a nonpublic girls school in North Omaha.
University of Nebraska President Jeffrey Gold, center, meets with senators on the floor of the Nebraska Legislature, including state Sen. Mryon Dorn of Adams. April 2, 2025. (Zach Wendling/Nebraska Examiner)
EDUCATION
By Zach Wendling
LINCOLN — A proposed University of Nebraska operating budget request for the 2027-29 budget cycle would increase taxpayer dollars to NU by $91 million compared with NU’s current annual budget.
Nebraska TV station cameras before a news conference on Aug. 19, 2025. (Juan Salinas II/Nebraska Examiner)
ELECTION 2026
By Juan Salinas II
LINCOLN — A Nebraska tradition returns as the Senate race between registered nonpartisan U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn and incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts will likely have only one debate at the state fair.
The White House press corps boards the former Air Force One following the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on July 8, 2026. A catering truck reportedly used to secretly transport President Donald Trump to a military plane can be seen to the left, under the plane. (White House pool photo)
D.C. BUREAU
By Ashley Murray
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump covertly traveled across Europe in a military plane in July after Iran threatened his life, according to a bombshell report Monday night by The Washington Post that revealed press and White House officials remained on a decoy Air Force One.
Colorado Democratic state Sen. Katie Wallace speaking on the Senate floor in May. Wallace cosponsored a measure that requires Colorado colleges and universities to make abortion medication available to students. Colorado recently became the fifth state to enact such a law. (Photo by Lindsey Toomer/Colorado Newsline)
ABORTION POLICY
By Sofia Resnick
When college students head back to campus for the fall semester, more of them will have guaranteed access to abortion medication.
Colorado recently joined California, Illinois, Massachusetts and New York in requiring public colleges and universities to provide abortion medication to students on campus or arrange to make it available to them through an off-campus provider.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Nebraska Democrats, Working Families Party sue ‘Working People Party’ | Juan Salinas II
Search is on for 2026 most popular item manufactured in Nebraska | Cindy Gonzalez
COMMENTARY
OPINION: Belief, popularity differ from the truth | George Ayoub
EDITOR'S CHOICE
Nebraska GOP sues to block the ‘America First Party’ | Juan Salinas II
Legal Marijuana NOW candidate says he never planned to leave Senate race | Juan Salinas II
Judge declines to force Nebraska Dems to replace Cindy Burbank | Juan Salinas II
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