Omaha World Herald – February 1, 2020 Nebraska officials have taken action before to help protect financially vulnerable senior citizens, and this year lawmakers are considering a new, worthwhile proposal. Legislative Bill 853 would allow Nebraska financial...
Hemp growers and entrepreneurs who were joyous a year ago after U.S. lawmakers reclassified the plant as a legal agricultural crop now are worried their businesses could be crippled if federal policymakers move ahead with draft regulations. Licenses for hemp...
Omaha World-Herald Editorial Staff January 19, 2020 Nebraska lawmakers are unlikely to provide produce sweeping changes in prison policy during the current 60-day “short session,” Legislature watchers say. Perhaps so, but state senators can still provide something...
By Paul Hammel / World-Herald Bureau Jan 12, 2020 LINCOLN — Five years ago, state lawmakers passed a series of sentencing reforms designed to reduce Nebraska’s chronic prison overcrowding. The reforms, signed into law by Gov. Pete Ricketts, were hailed as a way...
Joe Dejka / World-Herald staff writer Jan 12, 2020 When a Nebraska teacher or coach sexually molests a high school student, the perpetrator doesn’t always get jail time. If the student is 16, the age of consent, prosecutors have few options. An Omaha state...
