A state board approved tax financing for a Lincoln volleyball facility and an Omaha soccer stadium, but rejected nine other projects across Nebraska.

Only one other application among the 11 the board voted on Thursday received the committee's OK: a plan by the City of Lincoln and N4VB to build a $17.2 million volleyball facility in Lincoln.

Images II has served clients from Lincoln to NASA. Now, after 52 years, owner Redge Johnson is preparing to say goodbye.

We are writing today to encourage you to vote Sarah Newell for Lancaster County public defender.

In the last five years, the amount that Lancaster County taxpayers paid for indigent legal fees jumped from $7.1 million to $11.2 million. That $4 million increase occurred in large part due to losing attorneys and subsequent difficulty filling those positions. Turnover costs the county thousands of dollars each time an attorney is lost. Beyond the recruiting and training costs of new staff, the county must pay private attorneys to handle the overflow. Private attorneys cost the county more per case, meaning that as the Public Defender’s Office loses attorneys, taxpayers pay more to accomplish the same amount of work.

After a career in higher education — where I encouraged young people to be active in politics — I returned to Nebraska in 2018 to find that its unique nonpartisan unicameral had grown increasingly partisan, fractured and often ineffective.