quick 🧵 Last September, a grand jury convened in Douglas County to review 14 in-custody deaths. The jurors found no criminal conduct in the deaths - but they signaled a want for more independent scrutiny of all deaths in state prisons and county jails. omaha.com/news/local/cri…

you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

Legislators described bonuses ranging as high as $640K to Nebraska Public Power District executives as "shocking," prompting calls for the company to justify the bonuses, according to reporting by Destiny Herbers for the Flatwater Free Press. bit.ly/43HtB6M

another wild read from Natalia Alamdari

Lincoln! Join us for our Pop-Up Newsroom Series at the Bennett Martin Public Library auditorium on Wed., May 15! Come chat with journalists from FFP, Lincoln Journal Star, Nebraska Public Media, and 10/11 News Now any time between 2 PM-4 PM. Register 👉 buff.ly/3w30bTY

I'm from Michigan. My friends suffered through the Flint water crisis. So when I learned that the Santee Sioux Nation has gone without safe drinking water for 5 years now, I knew they needed more attention. Read about it here: buff.ly/4dMJBsM

“The tribe does not want to pursue a Band-Aid fix, we are looking to pursue generational change so our children’s children don’t have to battle this problem,” Chairman Alonzo Denney told me on Monday. That generational change comes with a $53 million price tag.

A Nebraska community hasn’t been able to safely drink or cook with their water for five years. Not five days or weeks. Not five months. Five years.

There’s a clear push on to centralize and consolidate at the University of Nebraska. And love it, like it or hate it, there’s one thing for certain: This is just the beginning. Important story from Flatwater Free Press reporter Destiny Herbers.

A bit of good news for your Friday: The Winnebago Tribe is getting back 1,600 acres of land – taken by the US Army Corps – after 54 years of fighting in courts and on Capitol Hill.

Celebration post! Yanqi Xu & Destiny Herbers series on billionaires, corporations, a mighty church and coastal investors buying up Nebraska farmland is a finalist for a national award from Institute for Nonprofit News. Read summary of "Who's Buying Nebraska?" & view top buyers: buff.ly/46nmU9L

Ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to request public records

New @ FFP: On the Santee Sioux reservation, the tribe pays the state $65,500 a year to rent "school land" — land set aside to fund K-12 schools. Tribal leaders want that land transferred to them, a step other states are taking. Read the full story 👉 buff.ly/4ddinKy

This story was possible because grist generously shared data with local reporters -- I knew nothing about school trust land! If you want to learn more about state trust lands on a national scale, check out their Trust Issues investigation: grist.org/indigenous/how…

It was a big question, but Yanqi Xu and I answered it!

It’s right there in the name: Flatwater. Flatwater echoes our state’s name in the Omaha & Oto languages. This Giving Tuesday, support a grassroots Nebraska nonprofit newsroom telling stories by and for Nebraskans, made freely available to all. Donate: buff.ly/3xPWyl8

Ever want a peak behind the curtain of the well-connected and influential in Omaha? Destiny Herbers dug into the data and came back with some interesting results on the city's philanthropic and nonprofit leaders. flatwaterfreepress.org/the-city-doesn…

What a great story from Destiny Herbers and Jeremy Turley 🦃. Shocking data about our unique (not in a good way) autopsy system. But what keeps you reading is a touching story about a family looking for answers. flatwaterfreepress.org/no-autopsy-no-…

"In Nebraska...when an attending medical professional doesn’t declare a cause of death, the task always falls to the local county attorney, a lawyer primarily responsible for prosecuting accused criminals. Their training, access to resources and approaches to the job vary widely.

🔥HISTORY MADE🔥 We earned our first #Pulitzer recognition! “Lethal Restraint,” from The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism Howard Center for Investigative Journalism ASU The Associated Press FRONTLINE, was a finalist for the Pulitzer for Investigative Reporting! The investigation found that “non-lethal” police tactics resulted in 1,000+