Nebraska’s EV conundrum: Charging options can get you places, but future will require growth
The state’s electric vehicle ownership is soaring. But it’s unevenly dispersed across Nebraska.
Yanqi Xu (pronounced yen-chee shu) most recently covered courts and law for NC Newsline in North Carolina, focusing on criminal justice, voting rights, housing justice and redistricting. Prior to that, she was part of a team at the Investigative Reporting Workshop that developed the Public Accountability Project, a newsroom search tool that hosts more than 1 billion public records in one place. She hails from China, where she first developed an interest in telling stories that resonate with people, no matter where they are.
The state’s electric vehicle ownership is soaring. But it’s unevenly dispersed across Nebraska.
As he grew Nebraska’s largest hog operation, Jim Pillen made economic and environmental assurances to residents of small communities where he was looking to build. Some residents profited. Others say Pillen Family Farms prospered while they suffered.
More than 7,000 Nebraskans visited Plan C, a website with abortion resources and links to abortion pills by mail, last year. Many of them clicked on links to…
In the seven months following a more restrictive 12-week ban, abortions provided by Nebraska doctors dropped by 24%.
The new law comes two years after a FFP investigation revealed that the full board appeared together at only 37% of parole hearings, making it harder for inmates to get parole.
At a February legislative hearing, a seemingly mundane bill reforming county zoning procedures drew testimony from a big name: Gov. Jim Pillen. For those seeking to build projects…
The Bellevue clinic founded and long run by Dr. LeRoy Carhart is no longer doing surgical abortions following his death and the passage of Nebraska’s more restrictive 12-week abortion law.
A small unit inside the Omaha Police Department helps to handle the deluge of mental health crises that police grapple with daily. One out of every three 911 calls OPD responded to last year was tied to mental health. The co-responders unravel mental health mysteries. They also help victims of crime, including Yanqi Xu, this story’s author.
Out-of-state investors are buying up Nebraska land in part because of the groundwater that can be placed on crops. But there are restrictions on what they can do with that water.
Meta and Google have paid a premium for Nebraska farmland in recent years.