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  • A Nebraska crypto company wants to get bigger. Landowners decry NPPD's use of eminent domain that will help it grow.

    Jeremy Turley, Flatwater Free Press|Jul 2, 2025

    The multimillion-dollar project, mostly paid for by Nebraska ratepayers, will feed the energy needs of Jigowatt, which already demands the most electricity of any customer in Stanton County. Justin Kennedy had long envisioned more than a cornfield when he gazed at the plot of family land a half-mile from where he grew up. It was "the perfect setup" for building his dream retirement house in rural Stanton County. He long ago planted a shelterbelt across the dirt road, hoping the trees would one...

  • DOGE cuts leases at Nebraska federal buildings without warning

    Jeremy Turley, Flatwater Free Press|Mar 19, 2025

    For more than 15 years, the brick building in south Lincoln has served as a local hub for the U.S. Department of Agriculture - a place where farmers meet face-to-face with federal workers overseeing complex conservation projects on their land. But last month the Department of Government Efficiency, a cost-cutting initiative led by billionaire Elon Musk, moved to cancel the building's lease months early and claimed it saved taxpayers more than $62,000. DOGE reports on its "Wall of Receipts" to...

  • 'It feels like science died': Proposed federal funding slash leaves NU leaders, researchers reeling

    Jeremy Turley, Flatwater Free Press|Feb 19, 2025

    The University of Nebraska would do less cutting-edge medical research, lay off employees and lose top scientists if deep federal cuts backed by President Donald Trump’s administration take effect, say university leaders. In interviews, NU President Dr. Jeffrey Gold and leaders at the University of Nebraska Medical Center portrayed the proposed cuts as a dark cloud hanging over local researchers and noted they would prove even more painful if coupled with potential state budget cuts. “As sad as it is to say, if this is sustained over a long per...

  • Black, red or dead: How Omaha became a hub for black squirrel scholarship

    Jeremy Turley, Flatwater Free Press|Nov 20, 2024

    Three taxidermied penguins preside over Room 426 in Allwine Hall, standing atop a row of metal cabinets in the back corner. The Antarctic birds are locked in an everlasting staring contest with a stuffed hornbill whose craned neck protrudes from a bookcase holding a row of primate skulls. To the students who file into professor James Wilson's mammalogy class, these are ordinary sights. What grabs their attention on this Monday afternoon are the short stacks of paper spread neatly across the... Full story