OPINION: Checking in on some of our neighbors

By: George Ayoub

Outlets: Nebraska Examiner

Published: February 23, 2026

Words: 844

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 4 days ago

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I thought I saw my former Los Angeles neighbor, Sarah, in Lincoln recently. She was standing at the intersection of South 27th Street and Nebraska Parkway holding a cardboard sign. The placard said she was homeless. Still.

Obviously, it wasn’t Los Angeles Sarah, the name I gave to a woman who 40 years ago slept in doorways, panhandled in front of Quinn’s Grocery Store and wandered our middle-class neighborhood of duplexes, gift shops, restaurants and …

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