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A year-end report from Atlas Hospitality Group shows just two new hotels opening in 2022, plus six others under construction countywide.

If Nebraska wants to reduce chronic prison overcrowding, well-behaved prisoners should have a shot at earlier parole as a 2011 law intended, a policy expert says.

In 2011, the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services wrote a bill that would allow well-behaved prisoners the chance to shorten their time behind bars. Eleven years later, that same department is applying the resulting law in a way neither the state senator who sponsored the bill nor the then-director of Nebraska’s prisons intended

Nebraska prison officials drafted a 2011 law aimed at letting well-behaved prisoners get out sooner. Now the state says the laws wording doesnt allow what the authors intended.

Photo illustration by ProPublica; source image: Milton Hershey School, MHS 2018 IRS Form 990 Long ago, and to great fanfare, business tycoon Milton Hershey revealed that he had given away his world-famous chocolate company, a gift to the school for poor orphans that he had founded with his wife. “Well, I have no children — that is, no heirs,” he said in 1923. “So I decided to make the orphan boys of the United States my heirs.” Hershey died in 1945, leaving a huge estate and a compan...

Milton Hershey School often has "too much" money.

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Boards Of Hershey Trust Company And Milton Hershey School Announce Newly Elected Chairman And Vice Chairman News provided by Share this article Share this article HERSHEY, Pa., Dec. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hershey Trust Company Board of Directors and the Milton Hershey School Board of Managers announced the election of Diane Koken as Chairman and Maria Trinh Kraus as Vice Chairman, effective today.  Ms. Koken was appointed to the Hershey Trust Company Board of Directors and the Milton H...