by Matt Johnson

Property taxes are out of control in Nebraska. In Omaha, landmark restaurants like Johnny’s Café and Cascios are seeing their property valuations increase more than

In 2024, Dan Osborn ran a stealth campaign against Deb Fischer, campaigning as an Independent and coming within a surprisingly close margin in a race

Beto O’Rourke, a former Texas Congressman who later ran for U.S. Senate, President, and Governor of Texas, held a town hall event with approximately 350

Since losing both houses of Congress and the White House last fall, Democrats have struggled to find a new message amid a lack of leadership.

Tom Brewer, a retired U.S. Army Colonel and Oglala Sioux member who served as Nebraska State Senator for District 43 from 2017 to 2025, returned

With the House majority hanging by a thread and Nebraska’s Second District seat seen as a “toss-up,” it’s no surprise that next year’s race is

The town hall format is ideally a platform for politicians to engage with constituents and answer earnest questions. However, particularly in the era of President

The biggest upgrade for conservatives in the state legislature last year came when Bob Andersen defeated Jen Day in District 49. While running for reelection

For 249 years, Independence Day has been celebrated with food, family, and fireworks. As John Adams wrote on July 3, 1776, it would be “solemnized

On Saturday morning, I attended a “No Kings” rally at River’s Edge Park in Council Bluffs, one of many similar events being held across the

It was a beautiful, cool evening when I attended an Inauguration Reception for the newly-reelected Republican members of the Omaha City Council, Aimee Melton, Brinker

On Tuesday evening, Mayor Jean Stothert made a rare appearance at the monthly meeting of the Douglas County Republican Party (DCRP), where she asked for

Omaha mayoral candidates Jean Stothert and John Ewing met at the Free Speech Society in Omaha on Saturday morning for a debate, the second since

There is a political realignment going on in the Republican Party, one that has two very different Republicans running against each other in Omaha’s mayor’s

The battle over abortion in Nebraska was not just between pro-life advocates of Initiative 434 and pro-choice supporters of 439. A third group, calling themselves

In the early hours of Saturday morning, Mark Vondrasek was prowling the streets of the Old Market in Omaha, scrawling on the sidewalk with chalk:

On Friday evening, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Omaha to a crowd of over a thousand people — with

Jean Stothert has a long track record as the Mayor of Omaha. After defeating Jim Suttle in 2013, she has served an unprecedented three terms

With last year’s defeat of an amendment to codify the right to abortion in Nebraska’s state Constitution, new abortion-related legislation is continuing to make its

The pro-life community in Nebraska achieved a major victory last fall as the state became the first in the nation to place protections for the

Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen spoke to the Pachyderm Luncheon on Monday, giving the group a recap of the 2024 election results and outlining

There was a MAGA takeover in Washington, DC last weekend, as hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters descended upon the city to celebrate the Inauguration

All three sitting Republicans on the Omaha City Council will be running for reelection this year. Aimee Melton, Brinker Harding, and Don Rowe spoke at

Nobody has engaged the grassroots in this election cycle quite like Scott Presler. The long-haired, 6’5″ Internet influencer is well-known in conservative circles, even before

The Greater Omaha Pachyderm Luncheon Group hosted another panel of state senators on Monday, this time bringing Lou Ann Linehan, Tony Sorrentino, Rita Sanders, and

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Acknowledging the worst-kept secret in Omaha, former fire chief and state senator Mike McDonnell finally made it official on Thursday night — he’s running for