Lancaster County

But I always thought that it would be a really good thing to be able to show people what biodiversity looks like.

The Salt Creek tiger beetle is the size of a sunflower seed, and it only lives in the salt marshes in northern Lincoln and northern Lancaster County.

And it is really in trouble.

It still is.

Yeah.

That's, that's why they got rid of, um, Lancaster County, Sar- uh, Sarpy County, and Douglas County's numbers.

Too many people for the digits that they had available.

Yes.

That certainly helps.

But, uh, the, the suspect was booked into Lancaster County Jail, suspicion of secondary assault and use of a deadly weapon.

Apparently they found a .22 caliber firearm that, that was hidden inside of a, a, a street storm drain.

So I don't know if that means threw it down there or what exactly, um, but they were able to get it pretty quickly as well.

All right, moving on.

Number four.

Made a big cash contribution to, uh, one of the candidates in the, uh, Lancaster County Sheriff's race, comes from somebody that, uh, well, used to be in the NBA.

So Jay Pitts is-

I'm Maddie Ames, Nebraska Public Media News.

The city of Lincoln and Lancaster County are proposing a $6 million secure entrance to its downtown buildings.

Currently, the Hall of Justice and the City and County Building have different entrances.

This proposal plans to make the Hall of Justice a single entrance with a secure hallway to get to municipal offices.

Mm-hmm.

So we've also had a Dolly Parton Imagination Library in Lancaster County for now three years.

And so, um, now 7,000 kids are receiving-

Wow

So the concept is then they have a home library of 60 books before they enter kindergarten.

Um, so we are really excited about fostering that love of reading before they even enter school.

Um, so yeah, if you're in Lancaster County and have a zero to five-year-old, you just go to our website or, um, to linktoliteracy.org, or, uh, even just straight to the imaginationlibrary.com website, and you can sign the kiddo up, and they will receive a book, um, a couple months later, and until they turn five.

Um, yeah, so and then what's really interesting is even though the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, the foundation created the infrastructure, it still costs us local partners about $32 a year-

Let, let's do check the latest numbers here in Lincoln for...

Well, for Nebraska, your average price right now for the whole state is $4.24. Lancaster County, $4.30. Yeesh.

Ugh.

Uh, is down a cent from yesterday.