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American Indian healthcare
American Indians face some unique challenges when it comes to caring for their health. Culturally, we view health in a holistic manner as a balance of our bodies, minds and spirits that allows for good health. Historically, women would have...
Income tax package advances to Select File
It is the last week of March and the Legislature has moved on to all-day debate. At this point in time in the prior 2021 90-day long session, the Legislature had passed 31 bills with 16 signed into...
Parents, adults urged to talk with teens about dating violence
Nebraska’s Division of Behavioral Health, a part of the Department of Health and Human Services, urges parents and other adults to have real and in-depth conversations with their children during Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. DHHS is one of t...
An aging breed: Nebraska's farmers are getting older. Who will replace them?
As Justin Taubenheim combined soybeans in a Buffalo County field on an October afternoon, he thought about why he does it. "I'm not farming to get rich,” he said. “I'm farming to maintain a legacy, a way of life. Faith, family and farming, in tha...
Caring About Kids Conference planned in Ainsworth
The annual Caring About Kids Early Childhood Conference will be held Saturday, Feb. 4, at Ainsworth High School. The conference runs from 7:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m., offering a six-hour training for in-home and center day care providers, preschool...
Gratitude for grandparents
A three-pound baby entered the world in recent days. This precious child was born after his mom spent seven weeks in the hospital on bedrest. At home, Dad and two siblings were working, going to...
Judge orders probation for one defendant, revokes another's
The Honorable Donna Taylor ordered probation for an Oakdale man, revoked probation for another and continued sentencing for a third, when she presided from the bench of the Antelope County court in Neligh last week. Matthew J. Wright, 48, of Oakdale...
Connecting young Nebraskans to the careers and communities of their dreams
Greater Nebraska's future healthcare workers are already here, but they may not know it yet. In the last three years, Nebraska Community Foundation surveyed more than 3,200 middle and high school stud...
Caring for the caregiver
Every day in the clinic or hospital I meet extraordinary caregivers. They are the ones who have gone above and beyond the call of duty; sometimes for years at a time. When you ask them how they do...
Education begins on the first day of life,' says surgeon who wants to build kids' brainpower
When Dr. Dana Suskind takes a child from the arms of their worried parents and heads into the operating room, she knows the great responsibility of performing surgery on the delicate structure of the...
Back to school with allergy and asthma
For students with allergies and asthma, back to school means more than getting their backpacks filled with paper, pencils and any needed odds and ends. Keeping your child safe and healthy involves...
Setting the stage for kindergarten: Nebraska launches new transition toolkit
ASHIA AUBREY Buffett Early Childhood Institute It’s the first day of kindergarten— kids get dropped off at school, where they meet other children for the first time, encounter new teachers, and experience a brand new schedule and structure—all in a...
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Parenting advice
I don’t know how you feel, but in my opinion, parenting is hard. Someone must have forgotten to hand me the instruction manual when my children came home. I have yet to meet a parent who wouldn’t app...
Mentioning the unmentionables
Over the course of my career, I have performed countless pelvic exams on women of all ages from all walks of life. There are two common patient behaviors that I have observed. First, most women leave...
The Kids Aren't OK:
Six-year-old Elijah Wastell started feeling anxious last fall. It came hard for the Omaha kindergartener at bedtime. His parents tried breathing exercises. They attempted to build his confidence. The...
Dental program offers oral screening for students
The Miles of Smiles program is a school-based dental program offered to all 35 elementary and middle school students within North Central District Health Department's nine-county health district. Mile...
State attorneys appointed in child death case
Attorneys with the Nebraska attorney general’s office will serve as special Holt County attorneys, to prosecute a case involving the death of a 13-month-old child. Bryor Weekley, born May 14, 2020, died July 8, allegedly as a result of child abuse a...
-Isms: Views on life in rural America
I’m not sure who first said this, but it’s true: You can’t have a million-dollar dream on a minimum wage work ethic. I know it’s true. Teaching and freelancing both required a high level of energy,...
Social security taxation discussed in legislature
Governor Ricketts signed the budget bills this past week with no line-item vetoes. He praised the Legislature for passing a budget that limited spending growth and placed an emphasis on increased...
Remarks from Mark
MARK MAHONEY Hazel has a secret to share – she's going to be a big sister! My wife, Christina, and I are expecting our second child later this year. Her due date is Oct. 29. It seems so surreal. I...
Hindsight is 2020
If 2020 vision existed, the past year may have turned out differently. Or, maybe we needed this year to define our strengths and guide us toward a revision of what we deem as normal. The year 2020 cau...
Applications for Clearwater ED incentive due
An economic development program, designed to assist Clearwater businesses through COVID-19, will end Dec. 31. The Village of Clearwater LB840 Emergency Commercial Grant Program was established this...
Small-town kids deserve to thrive, too: How one Nebraska town created a child care miracle
Kelsey Carlson calls me from the road, as she drives the quiet ribbon of highway connecting the hospital where she works to the small-town child care that has changed her life. Not long ago, when her...
'Monster' likely to spend rest of life in prison
"You say you are not a monster. You are wrong. You are." Those were words the Honorable Mark Johnson had for Roger D. Stuckwisch in the Antelope County district courtroom last Wednesday morning,...
