Nebraska Legislature greenlights casino regulation Sen. Tom Briese of Albion guided the measure in the Legislature. United States | 05/24/2021 A last-minute change designed to overcome the objections of other senators bans casino sports betting on games involving teams when they are competing within the state. Advocates have estimated that Nebraskans bet up to $500 million a year at casinos across the border in Iowa and other neighboring states before the pandemic. N
Casinos will be confined to Nebraska horse racetracks. The gambling bill (LB561) won 44-3 final passage after seeing
amendments and objections and revisions. It was altered last week with a key amendment
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At a rally in Des Moines on May 5, 2019, attendees wore red to honor the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Iowa.
The statistics are devastating. According to the National Institute of Justice, four out of five American Indian or Alaska Native women have been victims of violence, and over half of Native women have been victims of sexual violence. Some advocates against such violence believe these numbers may even underestimate the severity of the issue.
Trisha Etringer, a member of the Winnebago Tribe living in Sioux City, got involved in advocating for greater awareness of violence against Native and Indigenous women after she found out one of her own aunties had gone missing and was found dead in California.
Tina Tasslerâs road to motherhood was not a traditional story, but it is one full of love and welcoming hearts. The River-R-Land Estates resident and her husband, Michael, answered a calling to become foster parents, which led them on the path to building their family.
âI knew I wanted to have kids and I didnât care how I was going to accomplish that,â Tassler said. âI didnât care if they were foster kids; I didnât care if they were my kids biologically; I wanted to be a mom. My husband has always been super supportive of that and just kind of been there when I needed him to be there.â
Donald W. Wanatee Sr. regularly spent as many as 100 hours a week away from the Meskwaki Indian Settlement as he tirelessly advocated for Native American people and issues around the country, often sparing his last dollars to get from place to place.
When he was home, he took his kids on hikes through the Meskwaki Nation s heavily wooded settlement in Tama County, Iowa. He taught them how to grow crops and, being a hobby cartographer, how to navigate forests, said Donnielle J. Wanatee, one of his eight children. As a social worker, he understood kids needs and instilled in each of his own children a lifelong sense of individuality, she said.