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Annual Banquet: Charlie Radatz, Wall of Fame

Friday, January 20, 2023

Charles Radatz, 26-year owner/operator of KTNC radio station (1230AM), was a champion for the grassroots economic development movement in Falls City. As the inaugural Falls City Community Redevelopment Authority (CRA) President, Charlie approved many Tax Increment Financing (TIF) projects in Falls City. Widely regarded as the most-important tool for economic development, these TIF projects will have generational impact for Falls City and its citizens. Charlie organized the annual KTNC Farm and Home Show, featuring businesses and organizations from around the tri-state area, that brought 2,000 people to Prichard Auditorium over the weekend. As co-chairman of the Tri-State Corridor Alliance, Charlie helpe...

Ignite Nebraska Celebrates First Class Of Graduates

Thursday, October 06, 2022

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Division of Children and Family Services (CFS) is proud to announce the first class of Ignite Nebraska participants graduated on October 4. A ceremony was held to congratulate and recognize graduates at the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska (BCBSNE) in Omaha at 1pm. Ignite Nebraska is a new workforce training model designed to create meaningful career development opportunities for individuals who are active in the workforce and receive public assistance benefits but are underrepresented in higher-paying, high-impact industries. BCBSNE collaborated with DHHS and the Department of Labor (DOL) to develop thi...

State’s first commercial carbon capture and storage project to be in Bridgeport

Tuesday, October 04, 2022

LINCOLN — The state’s first commercial carbon capture and storage project will be associated with an ethanol plant in Bridgeport. On Tuesday, Carbon America announced an agreement with Bridgeport Ethanol LLC to capture carbon from the ethanol process and store it underground near the plant in Nebraska’s Panhandle. Read full article.

Gov. Ricketts Hosts Ag and Economic Development Summit

Thursday, August 11, 2022

Governor Pete Ricketts welcomed 365 leaders to Kearney’s Younes Conference Center for the “Governor’s Summit on Ag and Economic Development,” co-hosted by the Nebraska Departments of Agriculture and Economic Development. “Nebraska is enjoying rapid growth and record-setting employment,” said Gov. Ricketts. “Nebraska agriculture set all-time highs for beef exports, corn production, and soybean production in 2021. Over the past year, we also achieved our state’s highest manufacturing employment since 2008. This growth generated State revenues $1.47 billion above forecast last fiscal year, putting our state government in a position of unprecedented financial strength. Additionally, the historic tax cuts we passe...

Preparing for Tomorrow’s Workforce

Tuesday, August 02, 2022

Phew, the labor market crisis is over! Jobs are growing but the rapid pace of hiring has slowed and people who were reluctant to work due to COVID are returning to the labor force. It sure seems like the labor crisis was a COVID issue, so we can all go back to business as usual. Back to normal. Not so fast! While the jobs report is better than had been anticipated, there are still signs of stress and volatility in the workforce as well as long term structural challenges. Companies still indicate they cannot get the workers and skills they need...

The Evolution of the Megasite

Sunday, May 01, 2022

Competing on a national and global scale for large economic development projects — and winning — is a sure sign of a community’s vitality. A community’s ability to position large-scale, shovel-ready land tracts for investment consideration exponentially increases its ability to secure desired jobs and capital investment at the local level. For years, there has been a traditional understanding of megasite requirements. Originally created to meet the demands of the automotive OEM and allied industries, these sites were assumed to have consistent demands. Important factors have included fully contiguous land space; multimodal transportation, including access to rail; large-scale and redundant utilit...

Electrical system grant program approved

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Lawmakers passed a bill April 12 aimed at helping a Nebraska community address its electrical system challenges. LB977, introduced by Sterling Sen. Julie Slama, transfers $15 million from the Cash Reserve Fund to the Site and Building Development Fund and expands eligibility to include grants to second class cities — those with a population between 801 and 5,000 residents — that partner with public power utilities to expand electrical system capacities and enhance redundancy and resilience. Read full article.

Falls City Feels Electric: LB 977

Friday, April 01, 2022

Happy Spring, District One! We are less than one month away from the end of our legislative session, and the Legislature is starting to make a move on some pretty big bills. At the end of this week, we discussed and passed by priority bill on first round, LB 977, that would appropriate $15 million dollars to Falls City for them to secure redundant and resilient access to power. Falls City has almost everything going for it to make it the perfect site to grow Nebraska’s economy—a ready site with access to rail, gas, fast broadband, and a large workforce withi...

Slama: grant to end Falls City's electrical isolation

Monday, January 17, 2022

FALLS CITY – Sen. Julie Slama has introduced a bill in the state Legislature that would provide a path for American Recovery funds to help Falls City upgrade its electrical transmission line. LB 977 requests a one-time appropriation of $29 million to the state Department of Economic Development for a grant to any city of the second class. Read full article.

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