NU reaps $400M in sale of municipal bonds for renovations
May 27, 2021
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) The University of Nebraska has netted $400 million in financing through the sale of municipal bonds to be used for a growing list of renovations and replacement projects, ranging from new building complexes to new roofs, windows and HVAC systems.
The sale took place Wednesday, and money garnered will go toward an $800 million backlog of projects at campuses in Lincoln, Omaha and Kearney, as well as the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Curtis, the Lincoln Journal Star reported.
The projects include a $75 million replacement of the Westbrook Music Building at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, as well as multimillion-dollar upgrades to UNL s Neihardt Complex, Architecture Hall, Kimball Hall and Pershing Military & Naval Sciences Building. Also slated is construction of a $37.5 million College of Allied Health Professions building for the University of Nebra
Portraits of James Scurlock remain scattered across Omaha a year after his fatal shooting.
The plywood displaying his likeness that had covered the windows of a downtown coffee shop last summer now are held in the Durham Museum basement archives.Â
A billboard that demanded Justice for James, which was briefly posted at 72nd and Dodge streets, now is tucked away at the Great Plains Black History Museum.
And in the neighborhood where Scurlock grew up, a massive mural honoring JuJu World has weathered months of storms outside the Easy Drive Package convenience store.
Those permanent relics ensure that a piece of the story of what happened to the 22-year-old will endure â both to remind those who observed last summerâs cascading events and to teach future generations.
May 25, 2021, 2:20 p.m. ·
Only eight percent of Nebraska s workforce is fully remote. More workers are heading back to the office since May 2020. (Photo by Nubelson Fernandes on Unsplash)
Not as many Nebraska workers are away from the office as you might think. That’s according to new research by the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Center for Public Affairs Research. In early 2021, fully remote workers made up only eight percent of the workforce in Nebraska.
Director Josie Schafer says some jobs or industries can easily move to remote work more so than others.
“Professional and technical occupations were much more able to transition to remote work…than many other jobs in the Nebraska economy, including service jobs and agriculture,” Schafer said.
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