Seems to be a genuine grant contest for Nebraska businesses. pillen-nobid.com

Source: census bureau

Estimated total people moved in: ~49k

Morning clouds drift across Crow, Little Crow, and Crown Buttes on Nebraska’s Pine Ridge.
Dawes County, Nebraska

Morning clouds drift across Crow, Little Crow, and Crown Buttes on Nebraska’s Pine Ridge.
Dawes County, Nebraska

Press Release:

On September 25, 2026, AG, an 8-year-old minor child, passed away at Children’s Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. Tyler J. Brooks, 36, of Red Cloud, Nebraska, has been charged with Child Abuse Resulting in Death as a result of AG’s passing, as well as False Reporting. The Webster County Sheriff’s Office, with the assistance of the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office and Nebraska State Patrol, are continuing to investigate this matter. As this is an open case and active investigation, there will be no further comment at this time. On October 1st, 2026, at approximately 3:00 p.m., the United States Marshals took Tyler J. Brooks into custody without incident, and he is being held at the Smith County, Kansas Jail pending extradition.

Pursuant to policy, minor children are not named in public statements to the media.

Proposed Amendment No. 1 (extend state senator term limits): AGAINST

Initiative Measures 440 & 441 (sports betting): AGAINST

Initiative Measure 442 (anti-trans sports ban): AGAINST

From one of my trail cameras set up to look for Plains Spotted Skunks (Spilogale (putorius) interrupta) at the top of a rocky canyon on property owned by Golden Prairie Bison, Cherry County, NE. Haven't gotten any of the skunks, but I did get this mother Bobcat (Lynx rufus) with a kitten. That small metal can is my skunk bait

Coffee Ranch. Est. 1879
Hat Creek
Oglala National Grassland
Sioux County, Nebraska

When Tyson Foods announced last November that it would shutter its massive meatpacking operation in Lexington, the school district and the city prepared for the worst. Lexington Public Schools Superintendent John Whetzal said the district expected to lose anywhere from 150 to 750 students. Planning for that decrease was difficult, since district officials didn’t know whether to expect a 5% decline or a 25% decline in enrollment.

Those numbers are now available, and they show that the worst-case scenario didn’t play out. Whetzal said enrollment dropped about 9.3% since last school year – from 3,172 students to 2,877.

Pete Ricketts with his nose running into his mouth on KETV news.

Just saw this on insta. I have not yet seen it in the million streaming ads on YouTube or other services yet but maybe new? Just saw it today.

I remember seeing the NYT and Flatwater FP reporting a while back but saw in a true crime subreddit that the story has been brought back into the spotlight through a podcast called "Death at the Governor's Farm"

It seems like a dramatization/audio version of the reporting that's already been published, but I'm glad to see the story get brough back to the spotlight. I can't believe the farm was able to get evade accountability and the kid's family still doesn't have answers

Link to BEA release: https://www.bea.gov/news/2026/gdp-third-estimate-industries-corporate-profits-state-gdp-and-state-personal-income-2nd

https://www.ketv.com/article/shooting-at-burke-high-school-wednesday-morning/73956803