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Alberto Cabrera, 61, and Aurea Gonzalez, 60, are the two youngest people in the small village of Media Luna located near the northern coast of Puerto Rico. Only someone related to the Cabreras can...
Ricardo Valentin works at the Rio Abajo Aviary, which is part of a program working to breed and release the endangered Puerto Rican parrot. The parrot is indigenous to Puerto Rico and used to...
Editor’s note: Students in the Journalism 302 advanced reporting class have been writing stories about the people and issues in Lincoln’s six core neighborhoods as part of the One Project, One College project. They...
By Elsie Stormberg After Hurricanes Irma and Maria, hundreds of thousands of people in Puerto Rico required aid. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, along with religious groups and grassroots organizations provided supplies,...
By Sabrina Sommer In 2017, the Puerto Rican government closed 167 schools. This summer, 265 public schools on the island found out in April they were scheduled to close over the summer of 2018....
Everyone agrees that the city of Lincoln has a shortage of affordable housing, but city government, community organizations and homebuilders have differing ideas on what to do about it. City officials said they will...
For one Lincoln college student, hunger was common in her household growing up. Her mother battled alcohol addiction, leaving the student to look after her brothers, beginning in elementary school. But despite a troubled...
Heartland: Big Brothers Big Sisters is undergoing some big changes. After having the same name and brand identity for 20 years, the company is rebranding across the country as the organization struggles to find...
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Nick Cave Revives An Abandoned Church For City-Wide Art Project Genesis The Church of the Risen Christ quietly looms on the busy residential street is presides on. The church is old and grey, jaded...
Hazing isn’t a trend started by bored fraternity men but a tradition deeply rooted in history. You look into a dark room lit by candles and full of men in long, black-hooded cloaks. You...
Maddie Schultz, an Advertising and Public Relations major at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln discovers a passion for promoting sex trafficking awareness through a required course project. In the fall of 2017, Maddie was...
Being visually impaired comes with quite a few challenges, and not being able to drive is one of them. Due to the poor Lincoln StarTran Bus System, those who rely on the bus system...
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