May 16, 2013 - 12:00 pm
May 15, 2013 - 4:30 pm
Happy Wednesday! Here’s a clip from Nebraska native Alexander Payne’s newest film, “Nebraska.” The movie was filmed in various locations around the state, including Lincoln and Norfolk, and is showing at Cannes Film Festival, which began today.
For more on the filmmaking industry in Nebraska, check out this recent story from NET News reporter Ryan Robertson: “Could Tax Money Bring Film Jobs To Nebraska?”
May 15, 2013 - 11:34 am
Death penalty opponents like Sen. Sue Crawford of Bellevue argued that because it’s used so infrequently, the death penalty doesn’t work.
“If you think executions are important for justice, you have to face the fact that they are not happening,” she said. “Having the death penalty on the books is not leading to the deaths of those accused of heinous crimes, and it is not giving the families closure.”
Sen. John Nelson of Omaha said the lack of executions in recent years was not justification to change the law.
“Just because we haven’t been able to carry those out is no reason to do away with the death penalty,” he argued. “Sooner or later, regardless of what you hear on the floor, it will be done.”
We posted a poll to our Facebook page: tell us how you feel about this. Angry? Relieved? Ambivalent?
May 14, 2013 - 7:00 pm
Forget Trekkies – there’s a new fandom in town, centered around a cartoon show created for little girls. Yet most of the fans? They’re males in their twenties. Take a peek inside Nebraska’s “My Little Pony” convention to learn more.
May 14, 2013 - 2:20 pm
NET News earned 19 of 31 awards - including seven of 12 total first-place awards - in the non-commercial radio category for this year’s Great Plains AP Broadcast contest, which covers Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota. Yay!
We swept several categories, including sports, general reporting and feature. See the full list of award winners.
May 13, 2013 - 12:43 pm
Debate in the Nebraska Legislature is underway on a bill that would end capital punishment in the state. Watch the debate live on NET Television’s NET2, and participate in a live chat from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. CT with legislative reporter Fred Knapp, news director Dennis Kellogg and reporter Bill Kelly, who recently produced a documentary on the history of the death penalty, “… until he is dead.”
Check out a timeline of efforts to repeal the death penalty in Nebraska.
Brief background on this week’s debate:
The bill is sponsored by Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha, a longtime foe of the death penalty who has returned to the Legislature this year after being forced out for four years by term limits.
When a similar proposal was voted on in 2007, it was defeated on a vote of 25-24. But only 18 of the senators who voted then are still in the Legislature now.
The debate comes at a time when an increasing number of states have abolished the death penalty: from 2007 to the present, six states have done so, bringing the total number of states without capital punishment to 18. In some cases, the prohibition applies only to new sentences; those under current death sentences remain so.
Nebraska’s proposal to abolish the death penalty was advanced by the Judiciary Committee on a vote of 7-0, with one abstention. It would require 25 votes in each of three rounds of voting in the 49-member Legislature to pass. But it would require 30 votes to overcome an expected veto by Gov. Dave Heineman.
May 6, 2013 - 4:57 pm
The recent Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting brought more than 30,000 people to Omaha, Nebraska. NET News reporter Hilary Stohs-Krause was there and filed this report for NPR.
PHOTO: In the exhibit hall at the convention center, Berkshire Hathaway companies had booths selling their wares and showcasing their products and services. By far the most popular were See’s Candies and Dairy Queen, with a perpetual line for dilly bars and mini-blizzards. (Hilary Stohs-Krause, NET News)
May 3, 2013 - 1:41 pm
May 3, 2013 - 12:00 pm
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May 3, 2013 - 10:20 am
