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Small Towns, Big Gesture: Bar Associations Push Law Students Back to Main Street

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In an effort to bring more lawyers to communities in need, the Nebraska State Bar Association has launched a program to place law clerks in small-town practices across the state. Of the 93 counties in Nebraska, nearly a quarter—22—have three or fewer lawyers. The American Bar Association is footing part of the bill through a grant.

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How Facebook (and Social Media in General) Shifted Fundraising Strategies

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Basing their research on 704 nonprofits that took part in a 2015 Giving Day in Omaha, Nebraska, the paper’s authors, Abhishek Bhati of Bowling Green State University and Diarmuid McDonnell of the University of Birmingham in the UK, found that digital platforms profoundly affect an organization’s fundraising.

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Group Touts Local Flavor During National Farmers Market Week

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.” This year’s Farmers Market Week comes at a time when news has surfaced about a cyclospora outbreak , possibly as a result of tainted salad mixes that came from Mexico and were served in Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants in Iowa and Nebraska.

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Small-Scale Mobile Carriers Boost Signal With Collective Clout

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As Son noted in his keynote, the network reach was largely complementary. “I think Sprint realizes that there are synergies from working with these smaller providers that they need to take a good long look at,” CCA President Steve Berry told CNET. “This is an entirely new way of doing business in wireless.”