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NET News: Nebraska entrepreneurs
Host Intro: It’s a part of the American dream- starting your own business. And for many Nebraskans, that dream is now coming closer to being a reality than ever before. NET News reporter Ben Bohall has more.
NET News: Sold for sex in Omaha for 10 years, starting at age 6
How does someone get sold for sex in Nebraska? As part of our ongoing special reporting project on sex trafficking in Nebraska, Mike Tobias has the story of one trafficking survivor.
NET News: Why scientists disagree on whether RoundUp can cause cancer
After dueling reviews of research studies, scientists from the U.S. government and the World Health Organization are having a hard time agreeing whether glyphosate, the most common weed killer in the United States, can cause cancer. Known by the brand nam
NET News: Settling In Colorado, with the help of Rocky Mountain oysters
They’re known by many names: lamb fries, bull fries, Montana tenders, huevos de toro, cowboy caviar. In Colorado, they’re Rocky Mountain oysters and a Harvest Public Media reporter decided to try them to be a true blue Coloradan.
NET News: A Hotspot for a New Pandemic? Computer Models Pinpoint Nebraska.
Computer models, created by the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York, are considered an important new tool in predicting where outbreaks of serious diseases might occur, giving public health experts an opportunity to detect and perha
NET News: Votes in three states could affect death penalty nationwide
Votes in Nebraska, California and Oklahoma could affect death penalty nationwide
NET News: Eastern Red Cedar Could Threaten State Education Funding
The biggest landowner in Nebraska gives the profits it earns from ranching and farming to help fund public education. But a native plant could threaten those profits.
NET News: Sheridan County Bd. Chair: Whiteclay need more law enforcement
Sheridan County Bd. Chair: Whiteclay need more law enforcement
NET News: A battle over bringing local renewables to rural electric co-ops
Rural electric cooperatives brought electricity to the country’s most far-flung communities. In Western Colorado, one co-op is trying to spur economic development by generating electricity locally from renewable sources. But there has been pushback.
NET News: The Land Institute still searching for perennial solution
Researchers at the Land Institute are working on the gold standard: a new way of farming that mirrors natural, sustainable ecosystems and remains profitable for farmers. Forty years after its founding the perennial farming project is still underway.