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Dec 23, 2024 · FEBRUARY. Four of Nebraska’s largest school districts use debt collectors to go after unpaid lunch tabs. FFP reporter Jeremy Turley uncovered the story that 4 of Nebraska’s largest school districts, including Lincoln, were paying debt collectors to go after unpaid lunch tabs. Lincoln’s school leaders ended the practice almost immediately after …
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Jan 16, 2025 · State lawmakers hoped to inspire transformational development in areas like Nebraska Crossing with a 2023 law that resulted in a sales tax cut there and in other designated “good life” districts. Now two years later that project in …
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How we reported ‘The city doesn’t look like its leaders.’
Dec 12, 2024 · The data used to report this story was pulled from the most recent digitally available 990 filings for nonprofit organizations based in Omaha, using ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer tool.In most cases, those filings were from fiscal …