By Zach Wendling | Reporter
“Land Back,” a reference to a movement aimed at returning Indigenous lands taken by broken treaties, is spray painted on the bottom of a sign explaining the historical significance of the Wounded Knee Massacre in this image from July 30, 2024, at the massacre site on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwest South Dakota. (Photo by Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)
INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS
By Joshua Haiar
For Violet Catches, the Defense Department’s decision not to rescind the Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers who were at the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre was a gut punch.
City officials from Lansing, Mich., raise a Pride flag over the Lansing City Council at the beginning of this month. Some Republican governors are relabeling June, widely recognized as Pride Month, with conservative-friendly monikers such as “Nuclear Family Month.” (Photo by Katherine Dailey/Michigan Advance)
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
By Anna Claire Vollers
A half dozen Republican governors are pushing alternative labels for June, which is widely recognized in the United States as Pride Month. Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, in designating June as “Marriage and Family Month,” called it his “most important proclamation.”
People shop the shelves at the Ritenour Co-Care Food Pantry just outside of St. Louis last week. The nonprofit has seen rising need as grocery prices soar and thousands of Missourians lose federal food assistance. (Photo courtesy of Ritenour Co-Care Food Pantry)
HEALTH
By Kevin Hardy
The days of ground beef and chicken legs are long gone at the Ritenour Co-Care Food Pantry just outside of St. Louis. The nonprofit has swapped out those staple proteins for cheaper ground chicken and hot dogs as it faces higher food costs and surging demand.
An outside view of the planned grocery store near 25th and Lake Streets, from visitor parking area looking northwest. (Courtesy of Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture)
ICYMI
By Cindy Gonzalez
OMAHA — Carolyn Williamson’s thoughts rolled back to the glory days of the North Omaha historic business district, before the late 1960s riots when jazz clubs flourished and, she said, there seemed to be a grocery store on every street.
The then-leaders of Nebraska Medicine, including Dr. Michael Ash, the nonprofit’s CEO, at right, and Lance Fritz, now-former chair of the Nebraska Medicine Board of Directors, hosted a forum Thursday with dozens of state lawmakers ahead of a University of Nebraska Board of Regents vote to buy out the 50% share of Nebraska Medicine co-owner, Clarkson Regional Health Services, the next day. Jan. 14, 2026. (Zach Wendling/Nebraska Examiner)
HEALTH
By Zach Wendling
LINCOLN — In another curveball in the future of Nebraska Medicine, the University of Nebraska could tap the Omaha Community Foundation as an “equal member” of the nonprofit.
Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers. March 4, 2026. (Zach Wendling/Nebraska Examiner)
ICYMI
By Juan Salinas II
LINCOLN — Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilger announced Thursday he is suing the city of Lincoln over its recently passed minimum wage rule that set a different rate than the state’s.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Woman’s flair enters history-filled ‘Lawyers Room’ at Capitol | Cindy Gonzalez
Regents vote to increase NU tuition by 4.25% | Zach Wendling
COMMENTARY
OPINION: Rising childcare costs strain Nebraska family budgets, reduce business output | Katie Bass, Sara Brady
OPINION: Thoughts on Nebraska’s ballot petition process | George Ayoub
EDITOR'S CHOICE
Women legislators say federal bill jeopardizes rideshare safety | Zach Wendling
Brinker Harding submits personal financial disclosures | Juan Salinas II
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