May 16, 2013 - 12:00 pm
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 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)
Apr 25, 2013 - 12:00 pm
We received the following email in response to NET News reporter Hilary Stohs-Krause’s story exploring the controversy and contents of a new book of Willa Cather’s private correspondence:
I write to inquire about the correct pronunciation of the last name of one of Nebraska’s greatest citizens and authors.
Since I have been in Nebraska - 1966, I have always heard the name Cather pronounced like lath with a ‘c’ instead of the ‘l’ - followed by er - CATH er.
I lived in Cather Hall on the campus of the University of Nebraska for 1 1/2 years and never heard it pronounced as your reporter repeatedly did by enunciating it as in ’lather’ with a ‘c’.
I have just finished reading My Antonia (last night) and O Pioneers! within the last several weeks and was stunned to hear that pronunciation.
Please let me know if I have been in error all these years with my pronunciation so I can correctly honor Willa Cather.
Thank you
Larry Eggert
faithful listener
Stohs-Krause, not a native Nebraskan, had taken her pronunciation cue from Cather expert Andrew Jewell, featured in the story. But Mr. Eggert’s email made us all wonder. We contacted the Willa Cather Foundation in Red Cloud, Neb„ and they confirmed that her name is pronounced with a “soft t-h,” like “rather.”
Perhaps it’s a regional flavor, like whether you say “Norfolk” or “Norfork” for the north-central Nebraska city; Mr. Eggert said he lived in Lincoln for 10 years and has been in Kearney, Neb. for about 30.
Apr 19, 2013 - 4:30 pm
PHOTO: Charlie Rogers and attorney Brett McArthur listen to the judge’s statement.
HATE CRIME LESSONS: False Report Case Prompts Reflections On What Nebraska Learned
Calling the widely reported claim of an anti-gay hate crime against former Husker basketball player Charlie Rogers “an incredible and outrageous lie,” a Lancaster County judge sentenced the woman to seven days in jail, two years on probation and 250 hours of community service. Rogers must also continue treatment with a psychiatrist and submit to testing to monitor her dosages of prescription medications.
You can read the story, listen to the radio report, watch video of the sentencing from the courtroom and see some of the evidence gathered by police on the NET News website.
What lesson, if any, do you think we should learn from this incident?
Apr 19, 2013 - 4:14 pm
The last scheduled public meeting on the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline brought hundreds of advocates and opponents to Grand Island, Nebraska on Thursday:
Chad Gilbert of Pipeliners Union 798 said pipelines are the safest way to transport oil, and suggested opponents of the project were misdirected. “Why protest this job opportunity that my members desperately need? Could it be because of the Canadian oil sands, or possibly the fossil fuels itself?” he asked. “If that’s what you’re protesting, it’s not going to change by holding up a pipeline. The oil will be shipped.”
But opponents suggested labor could be better employed on sustainable energy projects. “The Keystone XL and the tarsand bitumen that it is intended to support have no redeeming value. We need to start dismantling the hydrocarbon infrastructure, not expanding it,” declared Doug Grandt.
Although the meeting was scheduled to end at 8 p.m., State Department kept it going so everyone who wanted to could testify. By 10 p.m., more than 200 had done so, with pipeline opponents far outnumbering supporters.
UPDATE: Watch the archived hearing
Apr 19, 2013 - 11:03 am
New Book Shatters Secrecy Surrounding Willa Cather’s Personal Writings
A new book upends decades of secrecy surrounding the correspondence of famed Nebraska author Willa Cather. Before, scholars weren’t even allowed to quote from her letters …. now, anyone and everyone can explore her most intimate words. Learn more in this Signature Story from Hilary Stohs-Krause.
Apr 9, 2013 - 7:30 pm
An Epidemic Of Violence: Nebraska’s Tribes Lack Legal Power To Protect Their People
The recent expansion of the federal Violence Against Women Act has been hailed as a milestone for Native women in the fight against domestic abuse and sexual assault, but it’s unlikely the law will have nearly as much impact on Nebraska’s tribes as it will in other states.
Learn more in today’s Signature Story from NET News’ Hilary Stohs-Krause.
Apr 2, 2013 - 4:30 pm
Omaha tribe member Gloria Grant Gone, director of the Omaha Nation Abuse Intervention Project, speaking about the murder of her best friend in 1991. NET News reporter Hilary Stohs-Krause looks at domestic violence and sexual assault on Nebraska’s reservations in the first of a two-part special report; part two airs next Tuesday, April 9.
An Epidemic Of Violence: Nebraska Native Women Struggle To Break The Cycle
