Tom Peed News Today

Voters may have the final say on whether or not Nebraska will launch its very first school voucher program.

LINCOLN — Gov. Jim Pillen has doubled down on his support for an “opportunity scholarships” bill he signed into law this year, contributing $100,000 to the campaign to fend off

LINCOLN, Neb. — U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made a trip this week to Nebraska for steak, not Bacon or a Flood.

LINCOLN — U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made a trip this week to Nebraska for steak, not Bacon or a Flood. McCarthy dined Monday with Nebraska conservative donor Tom Peed,

Nebraskas Peed family and their company have become heavyweight political donors, both nationally and locally. For example, theyve poured more than $1.6 million into the Lincoln mayor’s race.

A Nebraska family has plowed more than $1.6 million into the Lincoln mayor’s race, an unprecedented sum and latest burst in a multi-year deluge that, at the federal level, rivals the political spending by a famed Las Vegas casino magnate and a Silicon Valley titan.

LINCOLN — Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird told more than 200 people at a candidate forum Thursday that her opponent, former State Sen. Suzanne Geist, is bad for business, while Geist

LINCOLN — Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird faces the test of her political career on May 2 after she and State Sen. Suzanne Geist advanced in Tuesday’s nonpartisan primary race.

Top GOP donors U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts and Peed family fund effort to topple incumbent Democrat Gaylor Baird

LINCOLN — This spring’s pricey primary race for Lincoln mayor hints that last year’s record spending on state and local races might mark a new normal for Nebraska politics, one