News & Commentary

Many of the over 1,000 complaints we receive every year are about law enforcement agencies. Sometimes, they are a sign of an officer being rude, but not breaking any laws. Sometimes, they are much more serious. In all cases, these complaints should be going directly to the law enforcement agencies. 

For this week’s anniversary memory, we think the news coverage speaks for itself. In December of 2001, the Associated Press reported on a picket at the office of the ACLU. 

David Dell is a passionate reproductive freedom activist and volunteers with Planned Parenthood to guard patients from protesters at the South Street clinic in Lincoln.

I was 14 when I moved to the Elkhorn Public Schools district which had a small town feel and was just minutes away from Omaha. Elkhorn High was big enough for opportunities but small enough to where I could stand out. There was only one deterrent: I wondered how a school district with a 98% Caucasian population and a median income of over $75,000--the quintessential conservative community--would react to an openly gay youth.

The right to marry is a fundamental American right.  Something that no one should be denied – even prison inmates.

At a time when policy makers in Nebraska are playing politics with transgender students, it is heartwarming to see one entity, the Nebraska Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education, indicate strongly that all students, including transgender students, should have the opportunity to get a great education:

On August 5, 2015 Third District Judge John Colborn struck down 20-year-old policy that banned LGBT Nebraskans from providing foster care. This policy had been issued back in 1995 by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.

One way that people often show their support is through political signage in their yards, everyone has the right to free speech and expression.  During the summer before the 2008 presidential election, the ACLU of Nebraska helped Lincoln citizens freely display their political support for that presidential election.

Our nation is hurting.