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NET News: Mental health challenges law enforcement, rural areas
Mental health challenges law enforcement, rural areas
NET News: An organic debate about soil
There is a battle going on in the organic industry over hydroponics, the technique of growing plants without soil. The debate gets at the very heart of what it means to be “organic” and may change the organic food available to grocery store shoppers.
NET News: Program helps satisfy wind energy workforce demand
In 1998, there were only four wind turbines in the entire state. Now, there are more than 700. But as Nebraska’s wind farms continue to expand, finding trained people to work them has been a challenge. In today’s NET News Signature Story, reporter Ben Boh
NET News: MONA Showcases Latina Artists of Nebraska
The Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney is featuring the work of Nebraska Latina artists in the first show of its kind.
NET News: Critics concerned chicken project will damage water
Nebraska is known as the beef state. Meat production is a huge part of the state’s agriculture industry. But a proposal that would jumpstart the chicken business here has some residents concerned about the potential impact on the environment.
NET News: While one tribe fights oil, another cautiously embraces it
North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is making headlines protesting against the Dakota Access Pipeline. But oil development is playing out differently for another of the state’s Indian nations, one-hundred and fifty miles up the Missouri River.
NET News: Nebraskans involved in Dakota Access Pipeline controversy
Nebraskans involved in Dakota Access Pipeline controversy
NET News: Renowned Canopy Biologist Talks About Trees
Nalini Nadkarni is a canopy biologist and professor of biology at the University of Utah. Her work also includes outreach projects with prisoners, dancers, poets, and different communities of faith. She recently spoke at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
NET News: Capital Punsihment REDUX
On Election Day, voters chose overwhelming to retain the death penalty in Nebraska. But why? Researchers are trying to determine what makes individuals “for” or “against” capital punishment, particularly since public surveys show a decline in support amon
NET News: Nebraska prison program turns “tough guys” into entrepreneurs
A group known as Defy Ventures believes some prison inmates have skills to create legal businesses of their own once they get out of jail. Two groups of inmates locked up in Nebraska want to take that challenge.