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Thanks for posting this link. Ambassador's Worship Center was the church that proposed building on this site in 2003. They faced considerable opposition in the nearby subdivisions, and they eventually moved to N. 103rd and Fort Streets and the building that once housed a Wal-Mart and Kaplan Universi...

A friend and I dined at Salgado's yesterday evening, and we were pleased with the experience.  Our food was freshly prepared, well-served, and flavorful to our tastes.  I came away thinking that their menu and approach is pretty similar to Fernando's, which we also enjoy.  The selection of draft ...

Compiled by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development:

Comprehensive Housing Market Analysis:  Omaha-Council Bluffs, Nebraska-Iowa

http://www.huduser.org/portal/publicati ... aNE_10.pdf

I searched the Omaha World Herald via ProQuest through the Omaha Public Library website (at home you need a library card with a barcode number to authenticate and get access) and found a number of articles from the mid-90's addressing problems at Crossroads Mall.  Fifteen years ago!  Here's an artic...

I joined a friend in a trip to Barnes & Noble at Crossroads a couple of weeks ago, and we were startled at just how far down the death spiral the mall has spun in just a few months.  The entire second floor was closed.  Half or more of the remaining stores are selling merchandise of a sort tha...

I came to Omaha in 1992, and the Bagel Bin has been at the 120th and Center location at least that long.  For several years I stopped there regularly on my way to work, and I was always everybody's favorite co-worker when I arrived bearing a bag of Bagel Bin treats.  Panera's locations are more co...

I live in northwest Omaha, in one of the subdivisions just off Wenninghoff Road, south of Cunningham Lake.  Three hours of shoveling cleared my driveway today, but I gave up near the street.  One plow came through late morning and cleared a lane down the middle of the street.  Surprise!  I did n...

Excerpted from the Omaha World Herald, Business Section, page 23, June 2, 2001: Weitz Construction Co. is grading the vacant land at the 28-acre site, located northeast of Vernon Avenue and an extension of Sorensen Parkway, near 90th Street and Irvington Road. The building and land will cost about $...

I walked across this evening, and the bridge is spectacular.  Unfortunately, it has been open only three days and some dolts have already failed to clean up after their dogs.  I imagine the Omaha and Council Bluffs Parks and Recreation staffs will need to walk the bridge regularly to tend to this....

A couple of years ago a friend and I spent a lovely afternoon at Arbor Lodge State Park in Nebraska City, which had a beautiful forested area surrounding the lodge.  I remember joking that squirrel parents must tell their children that if they behave and live righteously, when they die they will go...

The latest issue of The Atlantic includes an article which examines the major increase of crime in suburban Memphis:   http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/memphis-crime .  The public housing authority in Memphis tried to address crime and other problems in the inner city projects by tearing them...

The ShopKo at 90th & Fort appears to be holding its own with the Wal-Mart SuperCenter at I-680 & Blair High Road.  ShopKo invested a lot to renovate the store, and I find it a pleasant place to shop.  ShopKo's corporate management has--in my opinion--done a good job of adjusting the mix an...

Ran across this Nebraska state government report today: Final Report of the Nebraska Tax Policy Reform Commission, November 15, 2007 http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/epubs/L3790/B068-2007.pdf It's about 200 pages long, but if anyone is looking for a highly-data-driven analysis of taxation in Nebraska, thi...

From the Omaha World-Herald, April 15, 2008: Motorists traveling between Nebraska and Iowa at Plattsmouth's only crossing over the Missouri River must find a different route for the next six months.  On April 21, the Nebraska Department of Transportation will shut down the historic Plattsmouth toll...

Thanks much for this thread.  About a month ago I bought a digital radio tuner in hopes that one or more of the stations which are broadcasting digitally would devote a second channel to a more eclectic, alternative range of music.  No such luck. I found eleven stations in the Omaha metro (10 FM and...

If you enter a word(s) or phrase(s) without specifying any date(s), they will be searched against the entire database back to 1983.  The database is huge, so it is often a good idea to set the date filter for a particular range of years or months. I just entered your search without any qualification...

If you have an Omaha Public Library card you can sit at home and search the Omaha World Herald as far back as 1983 by searching the ProQuest Newsstand database.   Point your Internet browser to http://www.omahapubliclibrary.org , click the Research tab at the top of their homepage, and click into t...

The Douglas County Health Department publishes occasional reports which may interest some who read these forums.  The second report is particularly noteworthy for tables which present 15 years of data. Health Status Indicators: A Special Public Health Report (Omaha, NE: Douglas County Health Depart...

Clearly, Jimmy John's will feed a lot of the people who participate in these forums.  Those who live in the north and northwest may find the new Jimmy John's (opened two weeks ago) at Sorensen Park Plaza (72nd Street and Sorensen Parkway) to be conveniently located.  I like Jimmy Johns, too, but m...