LES: Powering 50 Years
Without a doubt, 2016 was a remarkable year for Lincoln Electric System. The public power utility celebrated its 50th year of powering Lincoln and surrounding communities. Feb. 1, 1966, the city of Lincoln purchased the...
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Is This Your Neighborhood?
All kinds of people live in Lincoln—young families, college students, new Americans, workers, professionals and entrepreneurs—and there is a neighborhood for everyone. Whether you’re visiting Lincoln or living here full time, each neighborhood offers another...
Nebraska Innovation Campus
Nebraska Innovation Campus is dramatically altering the landscape north of downtown Lincoln. This new research campus, focused on interfacing private business with university programs, aims to change the city itself. From all appearances, this change...
Lincoln’s New Centennial Mall
by Charlyne Berens As Nebraska celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2017, its people can also celebrate and enjoy the total renovation of one of the state’s shining jewels: Nebraska’s Centennial Mall. The ‘new’ mall,...
The Daugherty Water for Food Institute:
Feeding a Growing World by Jesse Starita Picture a husky man in jeans and a flannel shirt with what looks like a Proton Pack from The Ghostbusters movies strapped to his shoulders as he traverses...
A Growing Downtown
Less than five years ago, railroad tracks ran through the area that has now become a center of Lincoln’s nightlife. When the people of Lincoln voted to approve the public-private partnership that built the Pinnacle...
Let’s Live Downtown
Residents find appeal in Lincoln’s downtown by Judy Shutts Do you prefer walking or biking to sitting in traffic? Like heading to the Haymarket for the Farmer’s Market or coffee on Saturdays? Maybe you...
Lincoln, the Good Life
Welcome to Lincoln, our star city, located in America’s heartland, right in the middle of the country, almost equidistant from California and New York. Named after our 16th president, Lincoln, it is the second...
College Town
Lincoln isn’t just the state capital, it’s a college town too. From Nebraska’s state university to our smaller private and public schools, Lincoln offers a variety of higher education opportunities to expand knowledge, skills and...
Public & Private Sectors Work Together to Grow Lincoln
by Diane Gonzolas Lincoln City government continues to emphasize public-private partnerships to keep the City growing, and the results are unprecedented: more than $1 billion in new investment, the lowest unemployment rate in the nation,...
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