WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden‘s most likely path to re-election is a narrow one that relies on the same three states that gave Donald Trump the Oval Office in 2016 and then yanked it away from him in 2020 — Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — along with a single electoral vote from an Omaha-based congressional […]
Phillip McClain, on the deck of one of the nine residences he developed as the Curtis Corner project, looks at progress on other residences. It was his first “full-on, new construction project,” he said, giving credit to Spark Development Academy for helping launch his company. (Cindy Gonzalez/Nebraska Examiner) OMAHA — A busload of budding developers […]
OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — A medal richly deserved but long denied to an African American combat medic wounded on Omaha Beach in the D-Day landings was tenderly laid Friday on the hallowed sands where he saved lives and shed blood. U.S. First Army soldiers held a ceremony in honor of Waverly Woodson Jr. on […]
Between the villages of Vierville-sur-Mer and Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes in Normandy, France, is a 5-mile stretch of beach that was once called Côte d’Or, or “golden coast.” Since June 6, 1944, however, this beach has borne a different name: Omaha. Eighty years ago, on a day now known as D-Day, thousands of Allied soldiers crossed the choppy […]
On this day 80 years ago, a farm boy from Alden Kansas got into a landing craft off the Normandy shore and headed for Omaha Beach. When the ramp went down and they begin to leap into the cold water, some of his men, who could not swim, sank and drowned from the weight of […]
A dozen opponents spoke during an Omaha City Council public hearing on the appointment of Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert‘s slate of nominees for the first Omaha Inland Port Authority board. The nine members ultimately were approved by the City Council on a 5-1 vote, and they are to begin developing policies and procedures and take […]
OMAHA BEACH, France — Under their feet, the sands of Omaha Beach, and in their rheumy eyes, tears that inevitably flowed from being on the revered shoreline in Normandy, France, where so many American young men were cut down 80 years ago on D-Day. Veterans of World War II, many of them centenarians and likely […]
(Getty Images) OMAHA — The Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce has announced its newest members of the Omaha Business Hall of Fame. The two women and five men (three of them from the same family) are to be formally inducted Aug. 21 during a gala at the Holland Performing Arts Center. Joan Squires (Courtesy of […]
Over the past two quarters, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) has been buying a “secret stock” — secret in the sense that a major investment fund can request the SEC withhold the name of a new buy in a fund’s 13F quarterly report, since disclosing the position could reveal an ongoing buying […]
It remains too close to determine the top two candidates for the Nebraska Legislature’s north-central Omaha District 13 seat. Nick Batter, left, had a significant lead at about 38%. The next two in the race were separated by five votes as of the end of Tuesday, May 14, with about 23% each: Ashlei Spivey, center, […]
In this video, Motley Fool contributor Jason Hall breaks down the sudden and unexpected departure from Boston Omaha (NYSE: BOC) of co-CEO (and great-nephew of Warren Buffett) Alex Rozek, how this changes the investing thesis, and what investors should be thinking right now. *Stock prices used were from the morning of May 10, 2024. The […]
Three candidates are vying for the Legislature’s District 5 race to succeed term-limited State Sen. Mike McDonnell of Omaha. From left, Gilbert Ayala, Margo Juarez and Flint Harkness. (Photos courtesy of the candidates; Capitol photo by Rebecca Gratz for the Nebraska Examiner) OMAHA — A trio of contenders hoping to win the South Omaha District […]