… as part of a rightsizing at BSDC. The move will eliminate 39 positions at the state-run facility. The Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday that Beatrice State Developmental Center will be the subject of rightsizing. The move is …
Category: Nebraska
2 Nebraska men seal friendship with kidney donation
Dan Masters, far left, his wife, Liza, and daughter Chloe stand beside Joe Reisdorff, his wife, Christa, and son, Truman, at a ceremony at Nebraska Medical Center on Friday recognizing living kidney and liver donors. The families from Syracuse, Nebraska, have become close friends since Joe received a kidney from Dan.
Nebraska senators sound off on new committee assignments
However, the change has left the Senate Agriculture Committee without a Nebraskan for the first time in nearly half a century. Both Senators say their new assignments are positive for the state they represent.
Nebraska town’s massive beer sales likely not in danger
Officials have recommended that a small Nebraska town whose four beer stores sold the equivalent of 3.5 million cans in 2015 be allowed to maintain liquor sales despite ongoing concerns over widespread alcoholism on a bordering Native American reservation. County officials voted 3-0 Tuesday to recommend that the state renew the liquor licenses of the stores in Whiteclay, a town with a dozen full-time residents that abuts the dry Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Nebraska beer stores scrutinized for sales near reservation
A county commission in northwest Nebraska will decide as early as next week whether to recommend that the state shut down four beer stores blamed for widespread alcoholism on a South Dakota Indian reservation.
Judge blocks Obama’s transgender mandate
A Texas judge has temporarily blocked the Obama administration’s new requirements for transgender care, granting a preliminary injunction Saturday to several states and religious health organizations suing over the rules. The rule, which was slated to go into effect Jan. 1, says that doctors can’t refuse to provide medically necessary health services within their scope of practice because of a patient’s gender identity.