Latest Nebraska state government News
Even Nebraska's nonpartisan Legislature is divided from acrimonious 2023 session
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Legislature has long prided itself on being a paragon of collegiality and function, as the only single-chamber, nonpartisan Legislature in the country. But after a vicious 2023 session in which the body of 49 lawmakers remained irreconcilably...
Nebraska prison workers injured after attack by three inmates; all expected to survive
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Five staff members at a Nebraska prison were punched, kicked and stabbed with “manufactured weapons” when they were attacked by three inmates, the state's Department of Correctional Services said. The injuries from the attack on Wednesday at the Reception...
Here are all of the abortion debates happening this week in US courts and statehouses
Lawmakers in South Carolina passed an abortion ban while a judge in Montana was weighing restrictions there in the latest developments in the shifting landscape of law since the U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned Roe v. Wade and the nationwide right to abortion. Here's what to...
Editorial Roundup: Nebraska
Lincoln Journal Star. May 18, 2023. Editorial: Legislature is broken; can it be healed? The Nebraska Legislature has been broken. It was broken Tuesday by the conservative majority, who ignored the body’s own rules in amending a 12-week abortion ban...
Here are the restrictions on transgender people that are moving forward in US statehouses
A federal judge is considering whether to block Florida's ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth, as bills targeting the rights of trans people are being embraced by Republican governors and statehouses across the country. The restrictions are spreading quickly...
Group plans to put legalization of medical marijuana on Nebraska ballot
A group led by a Nebraska state lawmaker plans to again try to put the question of legalizing medical marijuana before state voters in November 2024. It will be the third time Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana launch a petition effort after two previous efforts failed. ...
Nebraska conservatives gamble on combining abortion, trans health bans
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Conservative Nebraska lawmakers are taking what could be an all-or-nothing bet by proposing to merge two of the legislative session’s most contentious proposals — one to restrict abortion and another that would ban gender-affirming care for minors. The...
Editorial Roundup: Nebraska
Lincoln Journal Star. May 13, 2023. Editorial: Pillen, state right to focus on provider payments Earlier this month, Gov. Jim Pillen agreed to make a one-time stabilization payment to cover a funding gap for developmental disability service providers that will allow...
Editorial Roundup: Nebraska
North Platte Telegraph. April 30, 2023. Editorial: Budget wisdom Imperative as lean times arrive The latest figurative “seven fat years” for Nebraska state government appear to be ending, as repeatedly foretold by economists and veteran State Capitol observers. ...
Outspoken abortion provider LeRoy 'Lee' Carhart dies at 81
LeRoy “Lee” Carhart, who emerged from a two-decade career as an Air Force surgeon to become one of the best-known late-term abortion providers in the United States, has died. He was 81. Carhart died Friday, according to Clinics for Abortions & Reproductive Excellence in...
