About Us

Unicam Report is an online news site about Nebraska government, politics and communities: the Legislature in Lincoln, the governor and state agencies, taxes and the state budget, farms and ranches, schools, roads, small towns and Southeast Nebraska, elections, courts, health, energy and water, and the city halls of Omaha and Lincoln. Our promise: what was decided, by whom and with what money, told quickly and accurately, with verified information and its sources always in view.

The name comes from the Nebraska Legislature, the only one-chamber (unicameral) state legislature in the United States, which is also officially nonpartisan. Nebraskans often call it the Unicam.

Who we are

Unicam Report is published by AZ Medias Limited, a company based in Hong Kong (see our Legal Notice). Its editorial line does not depend on any party, candidate, campaign, government, company or advertiser, and the rules we follow are public: they are set out on this page.

A note on our web address. The address of this site, schaardtforlegislature.com, once belonged to a political campaign website. Unicam Report is a different project: it has no connection to that campaign, to any candidate or to the content of that earlier site, and it does not ask for votes, donations or volunteers.

What we cover

A vote in the Legislature, a property tax bill, a Supreme Court ruling, a county board decision on a road or a jail, a USDA farm report, a school funding formula, an election result, an audit of a state agency: every day, the news about Nebraska government is spread across the Legislature's own records, state agencies, courts, county boards, newspapers, broadcasters and public radio. Unicam Report brings it together and gives you the facts, with context and without the noise.

We focus on news of statewide significance for Nebraskans. A county, city or school-board item counts only when it involves public money, taxes, state law or policy, a major employer or many residents: a county board vote on a tax levy, a jail, a hospital, a road project or a school bond is news; a ribbon-cutting, a fundraiser, a festival or a routine meeting is not. What we do not publish: sports, obituaries and community announcements, individual crimes or accidents without statewide consequences, weather forecasts and road conditions, celebrity and lifestyle items, horoscopes, lottery results, betting, advertising, deals and sponsored content, and press releases from candidates, parties or campaigns presented as news.

We follow the Nebraska press, wire services, and official sources: the Nebraska Legislature and its committees, the governor and state agencies, the constitutional offices, the courts, county and city governments, the Secretary of State and county election officials, the USDA, the National Weather Service, public power districts, universities and research centers. Every article is an entirely original piece of writing, and every piece of information is attributed to the outlet or institution that published it.

Our 16 sections

Our newsroom organizes the news into 16 sections:

• Legislature: the Unicameral, its senators, bills, committee hearings, votes and special sessions.
• Taxes & Budget: property, income and sales taxes, tax relief, valuations, school finance, the state budget and revenue forecasts.
• Agriculture: crops, cattle and beef, farmland, irrigation, farm policy and the USDA reports that matter to Nebraska.
• Education: K-12 schools and their funding, the State Board of Education, the University of Nebraska and community colleges.
• Roads & Infrastructure: highways, county roads, bridges, railroads, broadband and the big construction projects.
• Rural Nebraska: small towns, counties, rural schools and hospitals, housing and the workforce.
• Southeast Nebraska: Beatrice, Nebraska City, Falls City, Auburn, Tecumseh and the surrounding counties.
• Elections: races for governor, the U.S. Senate, Congress and the Legislature, ballot measures, voting rules and polls.
• State Government: the governor, executive orders, state agencies, and the offices of the Attorney General, Secretary of State, Auditor and Treasurer.
• Nebraska in Congress: the state's two U.S. senators and three House members, their votes and bills, and federal money for Nebraska.
• Public Safety & Courts: the Nebraska courts, prisons and jails, the State Patrol and public safety policy.
• Health: Medicaid, the Department of Health and Human Services, SNAP, child care, hospitals and public health, never medical advice.
• Business & Economy: jobs, major employers, data centers, manufacturing, housing and economic development.
• Energy & Environment: drought, the Platte River and groundwater, public power, ethanol, wind and solar.
• Omaha & Lincoln: city councils, mayors, budgets and development in the state's two largest cities and their counties.
• Immigration: enforcement, refugees, deportations, the workforce and state immigration bills.

Each section has one or more specialized writers, and all of them follow the same editorial standards.

Our editorial standards

• Sources always cited: every piece of information is attributed by name to the outlet, wire service or institution that reported it, and the sources of each article are listed below it. Figures, dates, amounts and titles are reported exactly as in the source. We never invent or infer a figure.
• Political neutrality: no value judgments and no loaded adjectives about parties, candidates, officials or policies. Republican, Democratic, independent and nonpartisan positions are always attributed to whoever expresses them, with equal respect. The Nebraska Legislature is officially nonpartisan: we name senators by district and give a party only when our source does.
• Elections and ballot measures: polls are reported with the pollster, the sponsor, the dates, the sample and the margin of error; results only as reported by election officials or projected by The Associated Press, with their status (projected, unofficial, certified). Ballot measures are described by their official title and number, with the arguments of supporters and opponents attributed and given equal weight. We never endorse a candidate or a measure and never tell you how to vote.
• Public money, explained: tax rates, budget figures and valuations are reported with their year and their source (the Department of Revenue, county assessors, the Legislature's budget committees, the Legislative Fiscal Office). We say who pays and what changes, never what you should do with your taxes.
• Agriculture without promotion: yields, prices and acreage are reported as published by the USDA, extension specialists or producer groups, with the date and the report. We never give trading advice and never promote a product, an input or a company.
• Crime and courts: the presumption of innocence. A suspect or defendant is not guilty until convicted. We always state the stage of the case (investigation, arrest, charges, trial, verdict, appeal) and who reported it (police, prosecutors, the court). We never publish the name of a private individual who is a suspect, defendant, convict or victim: names appear only for public figures in their public role and for officials. No gory details.
• Minors and victims of sexual violence are never identifiable: no names, no images and no details that could identify them.
• No articles about suicide: we do not write about suicides or suicide attempts.
• Immigration: we use neutral, precise terms (immigrants, migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented immigrants), and figures are always attributed to the agency or court that released them.
• Health without medical advice: we do not give medical advice, drug doses or diet plans. Coverage rules and spending are reported as the agency states them; studies are attributed to those who produced them, with the limitations stated by their authors. Contested topics are reported with each side's own words. No alarmism and no promises of miracle cures.
• Energy, water and weather: readings, forecasts and warnings are attributed to the National Weather Service, the U.S. Drought Monitor, the state environment agency or the utility, with the dates and areas affected. We never make up a forecast.
• No advertising disguised as news: we do not promote products, brands, companies, candidates or services. When information comes from a press release from a company, a campaign, a party or an organization, we say so and never adopt its promotional tone; a campaign's claim is a claim, not a fact, unless an official record or independent coverage confirms it.
• Facts, not opinions: we never build an article on an op-ed, a column, a letter to the editor, an endorsement, a ranking, a prediction or another outlet's unconfirmed report.
• Faithful headlines, no clickbait: the headline and summary never claim more than the article. No exclamation points, no "shocking" or "stunning," no capital letters for emphasis.
• Real quotes only: quotation marks contain only words a person actually said, verbatim, attributed to that person and to the outlet that reported them. We never invent a quote.
• Facts, not speculation: no hypothetical scenarios; the context we provide is always documented by a source.

Corrections

Anyone can tell us about an error, and every person or organization mentioned in an article can ask us to correct information that concerns them or exercise a right of reply. To do so, email us at contact@schaardtforlegislature.com or use our Contact page, with the link to the article and a short description of the problem. You can also write directly to the writer in the form below each article.

We check every report against the sources. When an error is confirmed, we correct the article without delay. Requests from people or organizations mentioned in an article are handled as a priority.

How we use artificial intelligence

In full transparency: Unicam Report articles are written with the assistance of artificial intelligence, by AI editorial agents organized by section. Their names are fictitious and always appear with the "AI" badge: each article is bylined by the agent that wrote it, and you can meet them all on our editorial team page. Here is how they work:

• Continuous monitoring of wire services, the Nebraska press and official channels, to spot stories as they break.
• Only facts from real, cited sources: every article starts from an actual news item (a decision, a vote, a data release, a statement, an event, a result, a published study) reported by an outlet or institution that we cite below the article. Never from an op-ed, a column, a prediction or sponsored content.
• 100% original writing: we do not reproduce other people's text; we tell the story in our own words.
• Duplicate control, so the same event is not covered twice.
• Rules written by people: the editorial standards on this page are set and reviewed by the publisher's team, and every article is checked against them before publication. The agents do not decide the editorial line.
• Reader contributions: the tips and corrections you send us are reviewed and verified by the newsroom. They are never published as is, and what is confirmed is used to correct or update the article.

Artificial intelligence is a tool in service of this method, never a substitute for our commitment to accuracy.

Our illustrations

The images that accompany our articles are illustrations generated by artificial intelligence, and they are labeled as such. They are sober, scene-setting images (a county courthouse, an empty legislative chamber, a farm field at harvest, a grain elevator on the horizon, a county gravel road, a school hallway, a laboratory, a city street in Omaha or Lincoln) that place the subject of the story. They are not photographs of real events and never document a scene as it happened.

They never show a recognizable real person (no politicians, officials, candidates, executives, athletes, victims or suspects), and never a logo, a brand name, a party symbol, a campaign sign or a team jersey. For wars, attacks, disasters, crime and severe weather, they never show victims, injured people or people in danger; for health stories, never a recognizable patient. Each illustration is credited to the author of the article, with the line "© Illustration AI [author] / Unicam Report." Learn more in our Legal Notice.

Our commitments

• Accuracy: we publish only information that is confirmed and attributed.
• Independence: our editorial line does not depend on any party, government, institution, company or advertiser. We do not publish sponsored content disguised as news.
• Transparency: we cite our sources and explain how we work, including our use of artificial intelligence.
• Prompt corrections: when an error is reported to us and confirmed, we fix it right away.

Get in touch

A question, a comment, an error, a story tip or a press inquiry? We read every message. Visit our Contact page or email us directly.

contact@schaardtforlegislature.com

Last updated: October 2026. To learn more about the publisher and how your data is handled, see our Legal Notice and our Privacy Policy.