Nebraska Update

A diverse group of Nebraska state senators plans to ascend Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro in November

Governor Pete Ricketts was in South Texas Wednesday, a guest of Texas Governor Greg Abbott. He was part of a tour of border protection operations in an area that has been inundated with undocumented immigrants.
Ricketts was with a number of other Republican Governors, including Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, on the tour of the border area. Wearing blue jeans, boots and a blue shirt, Ricketts was seen talking to Abbott and the other governors in front of a backdrop of military Humvees and other vehicles. The group presented a ten-point proposal to end the immigration crisis, including calling up more National Guard troops to help protect the southern border.

Bill Ogg is the executive director of the state fair, and said some proposed improvements to the fair’s campus at Fonner Park in Grand Island have sorted themselves to the top.

“The improvement of the equine stabling, particularly for Fonner Park Racing,” he said. “The expansion of livestock exhibition facilities...

Testifiers presented a long list of requests to the Appropriations Committee for spending American Rescue Plan Act funds

Western Nebraskans are still struggling from wildfires, but one rancher from Banner County wants to help the community by throwing a rodeo benefit Saturday.

“The goal of the development is to provide housing for retirees and for Lincoln’s international community,” she said, “and other amenities on property that the university owns and has been underutilized for almost two decades.”

The university purchased the lot back in 2003, and has used it for staging construction crews.

Keith Mann with UNL Athletics said this year’s induction highlights tremendous athletes outside of Nebraska’s two banner sports.

“People think, maybe, first of football and volleyball when they think of great athletes at Nebraska, but if you look back in the history of Cornhusker Athletics, it’s spread across a lot of sports,” he said.

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Restaurant staff in Nebraska are working more than one job, some owners are doubling as dishwashers, and restaurants are reducing hours.