Aug 18, 2016 03:34PM ● By Charlie Litton
Roger Garcia has a lot of work to do—relationships to build, programs to create, grants to obtain, and people to help. Yet the 29-year-old d...
Aug 10, 2016 04:05PM ● By Warren Francke
Dick and Mary Holland didn’t sit in their well shaded home all summer, waiting for the grand opening of the performing arts center that bear...
Aug 07, 2016 05:36PM ● By Lisa Lukecart
The Rapture. The Apocalypse. The end of the world. And the New Jerusalem is in…Arkansas? Hopefully, someone packed their Rapture kit. Oh…thr...
Jun 15, 2016 02:43PM ● By Judy Horan
Erin Owen is an enthusiastic supporter of the Mavericks—the academic and athletic symbol of the University of Nebraska at Omaha where she no...
May 02, 2016 01:31PM ● By Daisy Hutzell-Rodman
Twenty-five years ago, a high-school teacher and a group of self-described misfit teenagers gave birth to a tiny literary journal. It was a ...
Apr 05, 2016 02:22PM ● By David Williams
Outstanding is a word that is used often to describe an ideal situation or person. The Omaha Jaycees uses it to describe the Ten Outstanding...
Mar 29, 2016 02:32PM ● By Sean McCarthy
Naming your public relations business after a close relative of the weasel family is a dicey move for a startup. But not if you know the bac...
Feb 09, 2016 08:45PM ● By Sean Robinson
In a dim corner of Dundee’s Blue Line Coffee, Melissa Dundis places petite fingers to six nylon strings. A strum, followed by the coo of her...
Feb 02, 2016 09:15AM ● By Leo Adam Biga
Shonna Dorsey has merged an aptitude for technology with a desire to help others via Interface Web School, Omaha’s latest cyber-ed iteration...
Jan 22, 2016 04:20PM ● By Daisy Hutzell-Rodman
Judging from mainstream media and culture, transgender issues are gaining traction. Yet, for many Americans, everything they know about tran...
Jan 15, 2016 10:56AM ● By Sarah Wengert
Joyeon “Joy” Wang is an artist. Her medium? Computers and fish. Wang, a trained graphic designer and sushi chef, operates Maru Sushi & Kor...
Dec 01, 2015 04:28PM ● By Nolan Searl
Ferial Pearson knows what it is to be an outsider. Born in Kenya, she is an ethnic Indian, and a Muslim. Growing up in Nairobi, Kenya’s capi...
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