Latest Nebraska state government News

Public school advocates again face how to stop school choice in Nebraska

Apr. 22, 2024 17:45 PM EDT

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Public school advocates in Nebraska are decrying the passage of bill to directly fund private school tuition with taxpayer money as a “cowardly act" to keep voters from deciding the issue at the ballot box. On Thursday — the last day of this year’s...

Conservatives compelled by Trump are pushing Nebraska to adopt a winner-take-all election system

Apr. 10, 2024 12:59 PM EDT

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — By the time conservative activist Charlie Kirk took the stage, there was no doubt that it was Donald Trump who had led him to travel to Nebraska and pressure state lawmakers to adopt a “winner-take-all” system of awarding Electoral College votes. “You see...

Months ahead of the presidential election, Nebraska's GOP governor wants a winner-take-all system

Apr. 03, 2024 17:06 PM EDT

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — With only months to go before what is shaping up to be a hotly contested presidential election, Nebraska's Republican governor is calling on state lawmakers to move forward with a “winner-take-all” system of awarding Electoral College votes. “It would bring...

A mostly male board will decide whether a Nebraska lawmaker faces censure for sexual harassment

Mar. 28, 2024 22:02 PM EDT

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska lawmaker implored the Legislature's Executive Board on Thursday to hold a colleague accountable for invoking her name in a graphic reading on the legislative floor, which some say constitutes sexual harassment. The decision of whether Republican...

Civil rights icon Malcolm X gets a day of recognition in Nebraska, where he was born in 1925

Mar. 28, 2024 14:29 PM EDT

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Malcolm X has garnered the recognition many have sought for his contributions to the civil rights movement in the conservative Midwest state where he was born, after years of being rejected as too controversial to be honored. The Nebraska Legislature on...