En todo lo que hace la NUIHC hay un gran énfasis sobre respetar las tradiciones de los nativos estadounidenses. En ocasiones incluso llevan a cabo servicios funerarios, recientemente para Zachary Bearheels, el hombre con enfermedad mental que recibió disparos de pistolas paralizantes y que fue golpeado en múltiples ocasiones por la policía de Omaha en […]
The 501C3 formed to develop and manage the project – Douglas County Unified Justice Center Development Corp. – is based on a model UNMC used to construct its Buffett Cancer Center. The nonprofit would have the ability to solicit private philanthropy to fund the project. “We have some ideas, but we have to have a […]
Proponents tout the efficiencies of a one-stop shop. The current center near 42nd and Woolworth would be replaced by the new one, thereby putting detainees in close proximity to the justice system and to services supporting their transition back into society. “Hopefully, this one-stop shop being imagined will be built based on the input of […]
The high price of juvenile justice – Part 1 Battle lines are drawn over cost, location of proposed youth detention center by Leo Adam Biga As Douglas County pushes for construction of a $120 million justice complex downtown, conflict and controversy have emerged over greater good and expediency versus accountability to stakeholders. The 10-story tower […]
When Roni Shelley Perez left Omaha for New York City last spring to pursue a musical theater career, she assumed she’d have to pay long, hard dues before catching a break. But in something straight out of 42nd Street, it took her only three months to land an off-Broadway play. Her whirlwind experience saw her […]
Costa Rica native Elisa Morera Benn of Omaha has been making art infused with the colors and passions of her tropical Central American homeland since childhood. “All my life my surroundings have been full of contrasts. Shades of green, red, orange, a whole range of intensities and feelings. It is impossible to separate artists from […]
Community advocate and organizational development expert Marta Nieves, 81, nearly always finds the silver lining. “I’m a visionary. I can envision so many positive things,” said Nieves. The bilingual Nieves has family roots in Cuba. Born in Tampa, Florida, she grew up in New York City, where she learned life lessons from her grandmother, Theresa. […]
As the first in her immigrant family to graduate high school and college, Yarina Garcia, 29, felt her parents’ pride as she advanced in her studies. “My dad always emphasized, ‘Your job is to go to school and do the best you can.’ I remember him repeating to me every day, ‘You gotta learn English. […]
El Perico feature on Washington Garcia Sources: Interviewed Garcia, press-web content Photo contact: wagarcia@unomaha.edu NOTE: You can access high res photos of him on his website – HYPERLINK “http://washingtongarcia.com/” UNO School of Music Director Washington Garcia’s destiny was set the first time he tickled the keys of his grandmother’s piano at age 4 in his […]
New Omaha Public Schools Superintendent Cheryl Logan, 55, is the first woman to hold the position full-time and the first African-American filling it, period. That’s not what this East Coast native, mother of one and daughter of a career educator mother and law enforcement father wants the community focusing on. “I hope when people […]
