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 […]
Baseball has long been an international sport. Its deep roots throughout Asia, Latin America, South America,Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico are well reflected in minor and major league team rosters in the United States. To see this Latin influence, look no further than the Triple A Omaha Storm Chasers. The current roster includes players with […]
Some call it bliss. Others, serenity. For Nick Hernandez of Lincoln, Nebraska, the study and practice of positive psychology is both way of life and career. The 41-year-old couldn’t have imagined this two decades ago. Back then, the Olathe, Kansas native was a married post-graduate student who looked at people and life critically. Now […]
(Pictured Left to Right: Zhomontee, Regina Palmer, Echelle) A year ago, Omaha South High Magnet School and SNAP Productions set the local theater scene abuzz with their joint staging of the Tony Award-winning In the Heights. The all-star production of current and former South students, school performing arts staff, and community theater veterans […]
He’s already logged thousands of hours and tens of thousands of miles to photograph thousands of species, and yet he’s far from finished. “We are a little more than halfway done after 12 years with just over 7,500 species (photographed). Because we’ll now have to travel farther and wider to get the remaining species (an […]
As Eduardo Aguilar walked down an Omaha Creighton Prep hallway one school day last April, he had no idea a lifelong dream would soon be secured. Counselor Jim Swanson pulled the then-high school senior out of his international relations class on the pretext of seeing how he was doing. It’s something Swanson often did with Aguilar, whose undocumented parents were […]
If Noah had a camera, perhaps he would have done what noted nature and wildlife photographer Joel Sartore is doing. Sartore, who resides in Lincoln, Neb., is a star National Geographic shooter in the midst of an epic project, aptly named Photo Ark, that’s creating an archive of global biodiversity in order to raise awareness […]
KMTV Channel 3 news reporter Maya Saenz is living a dream that started as a girl in rural Colorado watching Telemundo Denver and KUSA NBC Channel 9. Saenz ended up working at both stations before joining KM3 in 2016. This youngest of three sisters is the only one not born in Chihuahua, Mexico, where the […]
Spohn believes JDAI has been less than successful in keeping some low and medium risk youth out of detention – which is the whole point of the thing,” adding, “We still probably do have youth that end up in detention that shouldn’t be there.” “It’s really important we reserve incarceration for the kids who scare […]
Another large effort charged with reform is the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) launched in 2011. “We now have seven years of initiatives and we’re no closer to bringing a more compassionate, effective, fair system to our kids than when we first got started,” said Stennis-Williams. No one system touch point is the answer, “I […]
