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Sports (the legal variety) have come to Omaha.
WarHorse Gaming showcased its sports on Wednesday at Horsemen’s Park, 63rd and Q Streets. Betting will take place on a transitional building on the racetrack grounds until the casino opens next fall.
Wagers on simultaneously transmitted horse races have already been transferred to the small cellular structure. Simulcasting involves betting on horse races that are broadcast in real-time from other racetracks.
The launch of sports betting provides other people in the Omaha metropolitan domain with a more convenient location to bet on the games. Before opening, the nearest state-licensed sportsbook is the WarHorse Casino in Lincoln, about a 50-minute drive away.
Casino games and sports betting can be done across the river in Iowa, but the profits generated there remain in Iowa. Online sports betting is not allowed in Nebraska.
“We think it’s going to be exciting, especially for other people who have to travel to Iowa right now, to be able to do that here in Omaha,” said Lance Morgan, president and chief executive officer of Ho-Chunk Inc. , the parent company. enterprise and the economic advancement arm of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
The sports launch is just a “small first step” toward the Omaha site’s long-term plans, he said.
“What we’re building on the permanent facility is going to be incredible. I think it’s something that other people can be very proud of. “
WarHorse is the structure of a casino, racing and entertainment complex, an investment of approximately $250 million. The task includes the renovation of the existing Horsemen’s Park complex and the addition of approximately 67,000 square feet of new structure and expansions.
In the meantime, consumers can place a bet at one of the 10 electronic kiosks or at the WarHorse Sportsbook window in the transition building.
WarHorse has an app on its website, which a player can use to create a bet, but bets will need to be placed in person.
For the record, the first legal sports bet placed in Omaha on the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team.
Ken Mallory, a member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska Tribal Council, said Huskers would earn $100 to the state of Michigan on Saturday.
Mallory said he was grateful to collaborate with the Nebraska Humane and Benevolent Horsemen’s Association “so we have the opportunity to contribute to the prosperity of this city. “
“It means a higher quality of life for the other people we serve and represent,” he said.
David Anderson, vice president of the Nebraska Benevolent and Protective Jockeys Association, two bets.
“I bet on my favorite team, which is Nebraska,” Anderson said.
He will win them.
“Do you need to know what my favorite team is right now?It’s a gambling game unlike Iowa. “
He in Northwestern to beat Iowa.
He said Nebraska was wasting gambling money in Iowa.
“If we had done this 10, 15 or 20 years ago, that money would have been here in Nebraska and not in Iowa,” he said.
Saturday’s Husker football game will be played outdoors, so the game is legal under state law. However, home games involving Nebraska professional and college groups are not legal.
A three-station tent was added next to the transitional construction at Horsemen’s Park to provide more area for expected crowds. However, sports betting will need to be located inside the building and visitors will need to present identification.
Under state law, bets must be placed at the user or at a betting kiosk located in the designated sports betting domain within the licensed racetrack. Individuals must be 21 years of age or older to enter the zone.
Lately there are no casino games, such as table games or electronic betting, on the Horsemen’s Park site. These will be presented until the new casino opens.
Lynne McNally, chief executive of the equestrian association, said the goal was to make transient amenities as pleasant as imaginable until the casino opens.
Morgan said building the WarHorse casinos in Omaha and Lincoln is a “tall order” for Ho-Chunk.
“We’re spending a lot to redo the construction of the old Horsemen’s Park, and we’re also building a huge parking lot, and we’re expanding that construction in some areas,” he said.
In November 2020, the Nebraska electorate passed Ballot Projects 429, 430, and 431 to allow casino-style gambling at licensed racetracks.
Legal sports betting began in Nebraska on June 22 with the opening of a sportsbook at WarHorse Casino in Lincoln.
Grand Island Casino Resort on Grand Island introduced sports on August 23.
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LINCOLN – Nebraska’s most sensible public health official on Wednesday refused to rule out restrictions on schools, businesses and networking activities if they were necessary to protect the public from a future pandemic.
But Charity Menefee, director of public fitness for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, said she made a commitment to Gov. Jim Pillen that such decisions will first be discussed with leaders representing a wide range of perspectives.
“These are decisions that are made in a vacuum,” he told state lawmakers at an interim examination hearing.
State Senator Ben Hansen de Blair, chairman of the Health and Human Services Committee, brought the interim study, Legislative Resolution 234, to read about the effectiveness of Nebraska’s reaction to the COVID pandemic and how the state’s moves during the pandemic have affected Nebraska residents.
He said he sought to take a holistic view of the past three years and maintain the wisdom gained in that time. It also sought to highlight tactics for improvement, either in anticipation of another pandemic or in the functioning of the state in general times. .
Hansen and Sen. Brian Hardin of Gering questioned witnesses about some of the pandemic’s problems, adding guidelines for staying home, mask-wearing and vaccine mandates.
Hardin said he hopes that in the long term, public health officials will challenge efforts to impose restrictive measures on the public, which he says have harmed all members of society. He also questioned the price of COVID vaccines, especially vaccine mandates, while Hansen questioned the efficacy of masks. .
Dr. John Trapp, a pulmonologist and president of the Nebraska Medical Association, said masks are widely used in the physical care of others with many infectious diseases. He also defended the COVID vaccines, saying they were “absolutely” effective at saving millions of lives.
Regarding vaccine mandates, he said difficult decisions need to be made in the midst of a crisis and that he hoped decisions in a long-term pandemic would be made in partnership with those with medical and clinical knowledge.
Trapp also said Nebraska benefits from being in the center of the country and being informed of states that were previously impacted. He praised how Nebraskans have combined to care for patients and communities.
Looking ahead, Menefee said HHS is conducting critical reviews of all facets of its response.
“We recognize that things weren’t perfect,” he said. This emergency is the largest and most prolonged public reaction since the influenza epidemic of 1918. “
He highlighted three spaces that HHS knew needed improvement. First, he said, the company learned that its pandemic response plans needed to include a wider variety of agencies and functions, such as acquisitions, economic progression and corrections.
Menefee said HHS had plans to combat the pandemic before COVID, but the recent pandemic has shown that the plans don’t take into account desires such as receiving, distributing and accounting for gigantic sums of money, or recruiting, hiring and onboarding gigantic amounts of staff. New employees.
Second, he said, the company found that its data systems were insufficient to meet new and expanded knowledge demands. Legacy systems couldn’t communicate with others and weren’t flexible enough.
Third, he said, the company identified that it needed specific population teams prior to response. These teams include other people with disabilities and people living in rural spaces without transportation, who had difficulty accessing testing, as well as people who do not speak English. speakers who needed translated information.
Angela Ling, who worked as an incident commander for HHS at the height of the pandemic, advised that the state find a way to hire workers faster if it faces any other COVID-like incidents and be prepared to accommodate the desires of other people with disabilities and those who speak other languages.
But he also called on Nebraska to take steps that helped the state cope. Among them, he said, was the then-governor. Pete Ricketts held regular press meetings and was available to all kinds of groups. He said the state is allowing fringe conversations to be cut and making effective use of the National Guard. Community leaders were allowed to spread the message, and the state hired experts in the field to solve the problems.
Others called on the state to remove some of the regulations that were lifted during the pandemic. Linda Hardy, president of the Nebraska Nurses Association, said nurses were able to avoid some documents during the pandemic and wonder why those documents deserve to be required. Again.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops approached the “gates of Gaza City” and heavy fighting ensued with militants, the army said Wednesday, as many foreigners and dozens of seriously wounded Palestinians were allowed to leave Gaza after more than three weeks of tense seats.
The first people to leave Gaza, as well as four hostages freed by Hamas and rescued by Israeli forces, crossed the border into Egypt, escaping the territory’s growing distress as shelling drove thousands of people from their homes and from their food and water. and the fuel runs out.
The U. S. State Department said some U. S. citizens were among those who left, without giving details.
He said he expected more Americans and foreigners to leave Gaza in the coming days. Talks are reportedly underway between Egypt, Israel and Qatar, which is mediating with Hamas.
Heavy airstrikes demolished apartment buildings for the second day in a row in the densely populated Jabaliya refugee camp near Gaza City. Al Jazeera television showed the wounded, including children, being taken to hospital.
Speaking Wednesday at a fundraiser for his 2024 re-election campaign, U. S. President Joe Biden said he believes there will be a humanitarian “pause” in the war between Israel and Hamas so that “prisoners” can be released.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will stop in Israel and Jordan on Friday, his second vacation in the region since the war began after Hamas unleashed its October 7 rampage in southern Israel. His goal is to reiterate US support for Israel, but also to push to ensure that humanitarian aid reaches the Palestinians in Gaza.
In a sign of growing fears of war between Arab countries, Jordan — a key best friend of the United States with a peace deal with Israel — withdrew its ambassador from Israel and told Israel’s ambassador to leave the country.
Deputy Prime Minister Ayman al-Safadi said the return of the ambassadors is related to “the cessation of Israel’s war against Gaza. . . and the humanitarian disaster it causes. “
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Maj. Gen. Itzik Cohen, commander of the 162nd Armored Division, said his troops were deeply entrenched in Gaza. “We are on the doorstep of Gaza City. “
Israeli forces appear to be advancing along three main routes, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a U. S. -based think tank that tracks conflicts. Another, south of Gaza City, crossed the expanse of territory, reaching the great north-south highway.
The third, from northwestern Gaza, had moved about 3 miles along the Mediterranean coast and reached the outskirts of the Shati and Jabaliya refugee camps on the outskirts of Gaza City.
Hamas and the smaller Islamic Jihad militant organization reported clashes with Israeli troops in several locations. Hamas’ military-terrorist wing released a video showing its fighters from tunnels and firing anti-tank rockets at Israeli tanks east of Gaza City.
The Israeli army killed the head of Hamas’ anti-tank rocket unit in Gaza in its airstrikes.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians remain in northern Gaza on the trail of the fighting. Casualties are expected to mount as Israeli troops advance into dense residential neighborhoods in Gaza City. Israeli officials say Hamas’ military infrastructure, adding tunnels, is concentrated in the city.
The death toll from Wednesday’s movements in Jabaliya is known. Tuesday’s airstrikes in the same domain killed or wounded many people, the director of a nearby hospital said. Israel said the moves destroyed Hamas tunnels under buildings and killed dozens of fighters.
Rocket fire by Gaza militants into Israel continued, disrupting the lives of millions and forcing an additional 250,000 people to evacuate cities in northern and southern Israel. Most of the rockets are intercepted, but some have managed to get through, causing a small number of deaths and damage to buildings as far away as Tel Aviv.
By mid-afternoon Wednesday, 335 foreign passport holders had left Gaza through the Rafah crossing into Egypt, said Wael Abu Omar, the Palestinian Authority’s spokesman for the crossings.
Seventy-six Palestinian patients, along with their companions, were evacuated for treatment in Egypt, Abu Omar said.
The authority said the plan called for more than 400 foreign passport holders to leave for Egypt. The White House said it expected a “handful” of U. S. citizens to be among them, and Germans, French and British said their citizens were among those evacuated.
The U. S. said it is seeking to evacuate 400 Americans and their families.
Egypt has said it will not accept an influx of Palestinian refugees for fear that Israel will not allow them to return to Gaza after the war.
More than a fraction of Gaza’s 2. 3 million people have fled their homes and supplies of food, medicine, water and fuel are dwindling.
On Wednesday, hospitals in Gaza expressed growing fears that the turbines that power the life-saving devices were on the verge of failing after weeks in which Israel banned access to fuel.
Gaza City’s largest hospital, Shifa, is only a few hours old, its director, Mohammed Abu Salmia, said, calling on “anyone who has a liter of diesel at home” to donate it.
The Turkish-Palestinian hospital, the only facility in Gaza providing specialized treatment to cancer patients, was forced to close due to a lack of fuel, leaving 70 cancer patients in critical condition, the Health Ministry said.
The World Health Organization said the lack of fuel is putting 1,000 kidney dialysis patients, 130 premature toddlers in incubators, as well as cancer patients and patients on ventilators at risk.
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