At a forum hosted by Flatwater and the Lincoln Community Foundation, advocates highlighted ongoing efforts to improve access to child care — and the need for more to be done.
Author Archives: Shelby Rickert
Shelby Rickert is a senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln studying journalism with a minor in political science. She served as the 2025 reporting fellow at the Flatwater Free Press. Before that, she was a news intern for the Lincoln Journal Star writing breaking news and feature stories on topics ranging from tree eradication to artificial intelligence to the 2024 presidential election.

