OMAHA, Neb. — A growing rift between the Omaha Archdiocese and a Jesuit university here has been inflamed over a best-selling author’s invitation to speak at the school even though she supports assisted suicide.
Creighton University officials said they invited Anne Lamott to speak before her book “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith,” came out in March […]
I attended Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting and wrote about it for The New York Times Op-Ed page:
THE Berkshire Hathaway Corporation held its annual shareholders meeting here last weekend, drawing a record 27,000 capitalist faithful from all over the world to worship at the Qwest Center in downtown Omaha. Onstage, the chairman and investor in chief […]
Kurt Andersen, host of public radio’s Peabody Award-winning radio show Studio 360 and author of the recent New York Times bestseller, HeyDay: A Novel, comes back to his hometown, and I chauffeur him around for a tour of the burgeoning arts scene here in Omaha.
You can listen at Studio 360, or read Kurt’s […]
The fourth installment of The New York Times Home Economics series: Sweet Home Omaha - New York Times, by Richard Dooling.
“HOUSING prices are falling on both coasts, and bubble panic is around the corner. The financial magazines are already grabbing their readers by the throat and taunting them with headlines like: “U.S. Housing Crash Continues!” […]
The third Economic Postcard from Omaha: “Immigration Beefs Up Nebraska,” by Richard Dooling is at the New York Times site, with links to the first two dispatches in the series.
“Unemployment’s down, inflation’s up and consumer confidence blows with the wind. Just how are Americans actually doing? Last fall, the Op-Ed page asked writers to provide […]
For all of today’s up-to-the-second economic analysis, how are Americans actually doing?
The New York Times Op-Ed page asked writers to provide snapshots of their local economies over the course of the year.
Here is Richard Dooling’s second dispatch on the state of the economy in Nebraska: Nebraska’s Nostalgia Trap. I’ll be doing two more columns […]
For all of today’s up-to-the-second economic analysis, how are Americans actually doing?
The New York Times Op-Ed page asked writers to provide snapshots of their local economies over the course of the year.
Richard Dooling’s first economic postcard from Omaha: Revenge of the Cornhuskers, published Sunday, 2 October 2005.
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