Flatwater Free PressFor decades, traditional media has overlooked, well, a lot of people. We set out to do the opposite. One fourth of our stories should focus on black people, brown people, immigrants and our native communities.
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It’s the middle of summer break, but Precious McKesson sees only a handful of kids riding bikes near her home. “If they don’t have to be outside, they’re…
Private equity-backed companies are gobbling up vast swaths of residential property across the country, including in Omaha. They are buying up hundreds of thousands of homes every few…
WINNEBAGO – What started as a seemingly routine tribal council vote sparked serious controversy on the Winnebago Reservation in northeast Nebraska this spring. That vote – which appeared…
NEBRASKA CITY – For his final prom before graduation, Seth Kadlec has pulled out all the stops. His tuxedo coat has tails. His vest and bow-tie shimmer in…
Owning a home is one of the best ways for North Omahans to build generational wealth, said an Omaha real estate agent at a wide-ranging housing town hall…
What happened: Over the past 30 months, the number one buyer of single-family homes in Douglas County has been Vinebrook Homes, which lists a Dayton, Ohio address. The…
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…
Mujtaba Karimi crowded with hundreds of others outside a half-open gate to Hamid Karzai International Airport one night last August. Afghan or maybe American soldiers fired their rifles…
Rain was pouring down, and his roof leaked. Dr. Josef Roeder, a German archeologist, needed to find a dry place to work.A nearby palace hadn’t suffered too much…
It wasn’t until Vida Stabler was a teenager in the 1970s that she came face to face with her own people, the Umonhon, represented in artwork. She walked…