Feb 27, 2020 08:30AM ● By Gwen
I cannot help but think of March a year ago—in March 2019 my son Tyler left us. Tyler’s two wonderful daughters, Sarah and Danielle, are doi...
Dec 27, 2018 12:07PM ● By Greg S. Cutchall
Editor's note: These autobiographical pieces and corresponding photos are part of a special edition of 60PLUS featuring local residents who ...
Dec 20, 2017 10:23AM ● By Lindsay Wilson
Tom Plith—the jolly old man with the snowy white beard—can often be seen breathing fire for a mesmerized audience outside the Imaginarium do...
Dec 12, 2017 10:35AM ● By Kim Reiner
Colleen Ramsey has always written what she knows: love, adoption, grief, and—more recently—aging.“I have to feel something,” Ramsey says. “I...
Nov 21, 2017 09:07AM ● By Tara Spencer
Deep in the labyrinthine Arts and Sciences Hall at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, Dr. Bruce Johansen sits at his desk wearing a rather de...
Nov 05, 2017 03:34PM ● By Greg Jerrett
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt presented America with the Second New Deal, he created a national social safety net to prevent vulnerable sen...
Oct 27, 2017 04:11PM ● By Tara Spencer
Although he grew up in Louisiana during the time of segregation, Edgar Hicks says he was more fortunate than most of his African-American pe...
Jun 08, 2017 03:11PM ● By Max Sparber
I have a little pinback button with a red flag emblazoned with the words “Safety First.” It was produced in 1915 by the Nebraska Safety Leag...
May 08, 2017 11:53AM ● By Lindsay Wilson
Memorial Day is a federal holiday—a day of remembrance for those who have died while serving in our country’s armed forces. The May/June iss...
Apr 16, 2017 12:33PM ● By Robert Klein Engler
Sometime around 1904, when Omaha Bishop Richard Scannell visited Europe to invite young men to serve as priests among the German-American me...
Apr 10, 2017 12:12PM ● By Lisa Knopp
It was the story I didn’t want to write—that one about what I call “my malady,” my three episodes of severely restricted eating. The first b...
Mar 26, 2017 12:44PM ● By Carol Crissey Nigrelli
With the post-millennial rise of ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft, a generation weaned on digital technology could suddenly tap a smartp...
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