Flatwater Free PressNatalia Alamdari has worked at newspapers throughout the country. Her reporting has taken her to small town shooting ranges in Missouri, contentious school board meetings in Delaware, and aquariums in Texas. Working at the Flatwater Free Press will be a return to Nebraska — in college, she spent a summer interning at the Omaha World-Herald. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia and native Texan. When she’s not reporting, you can probably find her baking, petting her cat, or trying out a new crafty hobby.
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In December, a group of Ukrainian farmers gathered for a graduation ceremony. They exchanged certificates, tossed graduation caps, danced – celebrating the completion of a course through Kultivariy,…
Don Hutchens is a farmer, just like his father and his father’s father. He wears an “I stand with Ukraine” button on his chest and a red University…
Kerry and Vicky Blacketer have lived in their North Omaha home for nearly 16 years. Their children graduated high school while living here. Their grandchildren play house in…
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WARSAW, Poland – Tatiana Zhuravka shuffles out from room 702 to collect medicine to ease her weary nerves and fractured back. The 74-year-old arrived here in April, after…
WARSAW, Poland – Eight-year-old Yehor focuses on the task at hand. On the floor of a hotel hallway, he folds scraps of paper into squares, layer upon layer…
This story is a collaboration between the Flatwater Free Press and Nebraska Public Media. Flatwater Free Press · Nebraska’s Juvenile Detention Education The half hour before class is…
If Nebraska wants to reduce chronic prison overcrowding, it’s “a no brainer” to let well-behaved prisoners have a shot at earlier parole as a 2011 law intended, says…
In 2011, the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services wrote a bill that would allow well-behaved prisoners the chance to shorten their time behind bars. Eleven years later, that…