RSVP today for OpenSky’s Fall Policy Symposium featuring keynote speaker Professor Timothy J. Nelson of Princeton University with groundbreaking research on why the Upper Midwest has less poverty, longer life expectancies and [...]
55.6% When costs surrounding a school improvement project approved by voters in 2022 escalated, the locally-elected school board of Heartland Community Schools discussed this with their community and approved a financing plan [...]
Last week, Nebraska's governor urged Nebraska school superintendents to direct 97% of what they receive in additional state aid to property tax relief. In its story noting the unusual nature of the [...]
The connection between Nebraskans and their government is strongest when all Nebraskans can engage in the legislative process. We at OpenSky are therefore delighted to have been invited by Speaker Arch to [...]
Nebraska’s workforce challenges will be among several topics on the agenda for OpenSky Policy Institute’s 2023 Fall Policy Symposium, your opportunity to gather with Nebraska’s key thinkers and policy leaders to discuss [...]
After repeated attempts to pass school privatization measures had failed, Nebraska lawmakers in 2023 approved LB 753, which creates dollar-for-dollar tax credits totaling up to $100 million for donations to organizations granting [...]
30 Residents of Chappell will have to travel 30 miles or more to reach a health care clinic beginning this fall. Regional West Health Systems plans to close medical clinics in Sidney [...]
After repeated attempts to pass school privatization measures had failed, Nebraska lawmakers in 2023 approved LB 753, which creates dollar-for-dollar tax credits totaling up to $100 million for donations to organizations granting [...]
After repeated attempts to pass school privatization measures had failed, Nebraska lawmakers in 2023 approved LB 753, which creates dollar-for-dollar tax credits totaling up to $100 million for donations to organizations granting [...]
2.3% Very few wealthy Nebraskans packed up and moved across the border over the past decade as compared to other states. Only Texas, California, Michigan, Minnesota, Alabama and Louisiana had smaller out-migration [...]