Apr 10, 2025 · A Farewell to The Reader and El Perico Join us as we say goodbye to The Reader and El Perico after 29 years. Live music and memories will fill the night! Live music includes: Saturday, December 16, 2023 6:00 PM CT at The Admiral 2234 South 13th Street Omaha, NE.

Jan 27, 2025 · Stephanie Skogseth walked into Sensory Suite Spot after a long day, which started when her kids woke her up at 4 a.m. Her 5-year-old son, Harrison, has been getting haircuts at the salon suite since it opened five months ago. “He loves cars and trains…the most amazing memory that I’ve ever seen. And yeah, he’s […]

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May 30, 2023 · After a combined 55 years of telling Omaha’s stories, The Reader and El Perico will cease production with our September issue on Sept. 7. This is difficult to share, but as Publisher/Editor/Co-founder John Heaston explains later in this email, other circumstances have made it challenging to continue.

Apr 25, 2023 · Editor’s Note: This story was updated Thursday to include the updated recall petition filing form. A South Omaha resident has filed for a petition to recall Omaha City Council member Vinny Palermo, who was arrested Friday and faces nine felony fraud charges, including allegedly steering $93,000 worth of city contracts towards his companies and accepting […]

El Perico is Omaha’s original bilingual (Spanish / English) community newspaper and digital platform, founded in 1999 by ABM Enterprises and its three founders — Carlos Alvarez, John Barrientos and Marcos Mora.

Feb 25, 2022 · Entre el otoño de 2011 y el de 2021, el registro de estudiantes negros en OPS bajo al alrededor de un 26.2% a un 24.5%. En contraste, los estudiantes hispanos o latinos ahora conforman el grupo de estudiantes más grande en OPS, representando al 38.3% de estudiantes en el Distrito, un aumento del 3% desde el 2018.

Jan 5, 2023 · On a Wednesday morning in December, seven adult students stared at a small white board in a meeting room on the University of Nebraska Omaha’s campus. Written on the board in erasable marker was a tongue-twister: “Lolly let Lisa light her lantern.” Kerry Ecklebe and Lori Ecklebe, who are sisters, sat at the front of […]

Dec 10, 2024 · President-elect Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations is provoking worry in Nebraska’s Latino community and uncertainty in law enforcement. It was a familiar refrain from Donald Trump on the campaign trail. “On Day One I will launch the largest deportation program in American history. We will get the criminals out,” Trump said. Now that Trump […]

Dec 9, 2019 · Los medios de comunicación de habla hispana en los Estados Unidos han tenido que posicionarse con mucho esfuerzo en un gran mercado en el que el idioma inglés es dominante y la población de latinos actual en el país es de casi 18%, según expresa Joaquín Blaya, empresario y pionero en medios en español en Estados Unidos.