Aug. 3 | School supplies affordability, flying squirrels studied

Your Nebraska Update headlines for today, Aug. 3, include: rising costs are putting added pressure on families as Nebraska students and educators prepare to return to school, Nebraska becomes first state to remove Medicaid recipients under new work requirements as advocates warn thousands could lose coverage, former Nebraska Democratic Party organizer files lawsuit alleging sex discrimination and retaliation, health officials investigate cyclospora outbreak with experts pointing to contaminated irrigation water as likely source, opposition grows over proposed Cherry County livestock facility as dozens of public comments are submitted, UNL researchers receive Wild Kingdom grant to study Southern flying squirrels in Lincoln, cities across the Midwest are enforcing camping bans more aggressively.