Call out! Contact me about: What questions do you have for your local representatives? Do you rule out candidates based on their stance on certain issues? If so, what are those issues? What's confusing about elections? Voter ID? The responsibilities of specific officials?

“But also, when we get here, we’re just like, I think I should have just stayed home…” Must read story from Flatwater

14 student journalists. 13 schools. 12 states. Hear from them — in their own words — about the campus protests, the antisemitism debate, and the emotional toll of covering these events: politico.com/news/magazine/…

Big announcement, Omaha: Chris Bowling and I are launching an Omaha-centric Flatwater Free Press newsletter next week! It'll feature our work and musings, plus food reviews and art news. Sign up here by checking the "Omaha news and events" box: flatwaterfreepress.org/subscribe/

Today marks 2 years since 19 fourth graders & two teachers were killed by a 18-year-old gunman in a mass shooting at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. #RememberTheirNames #uvalde21

Thread: Two years ago today, 19 fourth-graders and two teachers were killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. The children loved TikTok and baseball, Pokémon and Starbucks. The teachers died trying to save their students. This is who they were: expressnews.com/projects/uvald…

State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha files to withdraw from running for re-election to his longtime seat representing North Omaha in the Nebraska Legislature. From Aaron Sanderford nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/07/29/ern…

Every year, a lottery determines who gets an H-1B visa to work in the US. The game, it turns out, is rigged. Outsourcing and staffing firms are exploiting loopholes, crowding out US employers and immigrants who play it fair. We have exclusive data to show it for the 1st time 🧵

The State of Nebraska has spent nearly $5 million funding crisis pregnancy centers with anti-poverty money. Some say the program is about helping needy women. Others, including a group in charge of the program, say it's really about curbing abortions. flatwaterfreepress.org/helping-needy-…

A foiled school shooting plot defined his childhood. Now, he defines himself through drag. His story asks: Does a divided America, a nation in the throes of a war over identity, allow for second acts? My latest #longread, co-reported with Jon Shapley houstonchronicle.com/projects/jayse…

Just listened to a podcast where they suggested Tim Walz's roots for calling people "weird" comes from his teaching days. Nuh uh. Tim Walz calling others "weird" is Nebraska™

Congratulations to Teen Team graduates Aden Max Juarez and Arianna Nevarez (pictured in the middle), who were awarded SAAHJ scholarships this weekend! They are pictured with Express-News reporters & Teen Team leaders Liz Teitz, Emilie Eaton & Megan Rodriguez.

Pop the champagne!!! On Wednesday, the Flatwater Free Press was named the Startup of the Year — the country’s No. 1 new nonprofit newsroom — by the Institute for Nonprofit News during the 2024 INNY awards. Congrats to FFP staff and to you, our loyal readers.

Nebraska! Our voter guide has everything: candidate info, FAQs, the bar association's judge ratings, videos where I explain every ballot measure (while actively suppressing the Nebraskan urge to pronounce it ballot maysure). Check it out: voterguide.flatwaterfreepress.org

Nebraska! There's less than one month until the election. Let's get ready to vote! With the help of excellent colleagues at the Flatwater Free Press, I put together a voter guide on Unicameral, Board of Regents and State Board of Education races. Find it here voterguide.flatwaterfreepress.org

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No need to get overwhelmed when you step into the booth and unfold your ballot today, Neb voters. One more time for this voter guide, via Libby Seline & co 👏