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Sorry, but the video you are requesting is unavailable at this time, or unplayable on your platform! Natalie Saenz April 19, 2021 - 10:27pm With the continued rollout of vaccines across the country, individuals who identify as Hispanic or Latino are falling behind. According to a report in the New York Times, 11% of Nebraskans are Latino, but only 4% are fully vaccinated. According to the report, Nebraska is slowly closing its gap between the Latino population and vaccination rates. Dr. Athena...

A virtual panel featuring Together 4 Fremont founders Brent Cudly and Erica Kobza will discuss the importance of social connectedness on Tuesday.  The panel, titled "Social Connectedness Across Different Backgrounds, will be hosted by Civic Nebraska and will begin at noon. The event will feature panelists from both rural and urban communities, including Valeria Rodriguez of Empowering Families in Scottsbluff and Joseline Reyna of the Multicultural Coalition of Grand Island.  Together 4 Fr...

BY Justin Pinkerman | April 6, 2021 LINCOLN – This morning, Governor Pete Ricketts held a press conference to encourage Nebraskans to sign up for the coronavirus vaccine.  He noted that statewide coronavirus hospitalizations increased last week for the first time in 19 weeks.  He also mentioned that Nebraska will be receiving increasing allocations of coronavirus vaccines to a...

Fund honors woman, helps immigrants seeking citizenship ROBERT PORE, The Grand Island Independent April 3, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Sometimes an immigrant to this country, seeking citizenship, can teach us or make us realize that not only is the United States a country of immigrants, but also how important and a privilege being an American really is. Recently, the Greater Grand Island Community Foundation and the Multicultural Coalition joined forces to create The ...

Germanna Community College staff watched as a woman wandered by a food distribution event held on the college’s Fredericksburg campus in December. They could tell she was uncomfortable accepting free food. Though she told them she had recently become unemployed, she clearly “felt weird taking the food,” said Jessica Thompson, an employee of Germanna’s Educational Foundation. Thompson organized the food distribution event to help students and their families who have been fina...

Hello SOU Community, My name is Niko Hatch, and as of this past December 8th I am now your new ASSOU President. My predecessor Sarah Grulikowski has decided to withdraw from the position. I would like to extend my thanks from the student body to Sarah Grulikowski for her leadership and guidance through the beginning of this year and we wish her all the best in her future endeavors.  As her Vice President I assumed the office upon her withdrawal, and a new Vice President was elected from within...

As community development administrator for the city of Grand Island, Amber Alvidrez connects Grand Island’s nonprofit agencies with state and federal funds. These resources are needed during an ordinary year. In 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, such resources are critical. Alvidrez has been with the city for three years. After graduating from Hastings College, she went to work for the Central Nebraska Child Advocacy Center (now called First Light). There, she was a forensic interviewer, w...

Attacked. goria, were you commenting there under your breath? thats why -- at the end you >> no, i just -- i feel like we wrapped it in a bow. do see this every four years. well be right back and well continue our conversation. in 2012 when, mitt romney made an election day trip to ohio. we were all talking about the tightening in pennsylvania. this is what happens at the end of a presidential race. this has tightened a bit because of the comey news out of the fbi of course and that hasnt been g...

That its just a natural kind of settling and tightening of a race in a very dwightivided cou. i was talking to somebody in north carolina who pays a lot of attention to their early voting who said to me, 90% of republicans will come home in north carolina and thats really good for donald trump. the african-american vote is down. will hillary clinton be able to gather her more progressive, younger, multicultural coalition, to win that state, we just dont know. >> yeah. >> there are some really ke...