Jan 13, 2017 08:23AM ● By Kara Schweiss
Laura Kirshenbaum is a straight-A student, but it is not good grades that her mother talks about first when describing her daughter’s schola...
Nov 20, 2016 03:35PM ● By Josefina Loza
“Students come up to me in the halls and ask when the pantry is going to stock toothbrushes…Toothbrushes…What they’re coming in for, it’s no...
Oct 12, 2016 01:05AM ● By Ashley Wegner
It’s a rural neighborhood with a small-town feel, full of rolling hills, large trees, wildlife, and huge plots of land. This same area is ju...
Aug 26, 2016 12:00PM ● By Patrick McGee
Zack Carlson, 28, is a district court attorney by day. Come the weekend, he’s a dungeon master. One of the Omaha native’s favorite pastimes—...
Apr 15, 2015 03:52PM ● By David Williams
Originally published in March/April 2015 Omaha Home.Until the relatively recent past, a rapid-fire word association game played on the subje...
Apr 09, 2015 11:36AM ● By David Williams
Originally published in March/April 2015 Omaha Magazine.These pages often feature nonprofits that have the power to draw from scores of volu...
May 10, 2014 09:12AM ● By David Williams
There was a time when most homes were built with a front porch, a space that practically screamed to passerby and neighbor alike, “Here we a...
Mar 26, 2014 08:50AM ● By David Williams
We started this with no idea of what it would become,” says Sharon Olson of the home at 2737 Mary St. that later became The Minne Lusa House...
Mar 14, 2014 09:31AM ● By Meghan Townley
Learning life skills through baseball.” This is the tagline for MVP4Life, a new nonprofit organization aimed at keeping Omaha’s youth in sch...
Feb 24, 2014 06:12PM ● By Kristen Hoffman
VODEC began in 1968 when a group of parents, educators, and others sought to implement a paradigm shift in how people with disabilities are ...
Feb 16, 2014 02:00PM ● By Bev Carlson
Being a child in the foster care system can be lonely and confusing. Just ask Tabitha. Shuffled from one home to another, one town to anothe...
Feb 09, 2014 10:00AM ● By Katie Anderson
This is the month that people rush to buy flowers and chocolates in order to celebrate the love they have found with that “special someone.”...
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