Mike Tobias

1 month ago | nebraskapublicmedia.org | Mike Tobias

Cabela’s and Sidney. The outdoor recreation retailer and its hometown have been connected since the 1960s. Fifty years later, Sidney was home to the company headquarters, a nearby distribution center and the first of several massive retail stores nationwide. “I wanted to work there because it was the place to work when you moved to Sidney,” said Cory Keen. “There was always great camaraderie between employees,” added Melissa Norgard.

2 months ago | nebraskapublicmedia.org | Mike Tobias

The former Cabela’s corporate headquarters buildings in Sidney are for sale. The 457,445 square foot property has been vacant since Bass Pro bought the Sidney-based company in 2017 and moved the headquarters to Missouri, which led to a loss of about 2,000 jobs for the Sidney area. Next week the two office buildings are up for auction.

Aug 22, 2024 | nebraskapublicmedia.org | Mike Tobias

The Nebraska State Fair opens today in Grand Island. At the end of the night the entertainment switches from ground to air, with the fair’s first ever drone show. Meet the Nebraska company creating the show and learn how they tell stories in the sky. A year ago, 90,000 people in Memorial Stadium were treated to things they’d probably never seen before. The historic outdoor volleyball match.

Apr 18, 2024 | nebraskapublicmedia.org | Mike Tobias

Entrepreneurship has been a part of Dusty Birge’s life since he was a child. “My very first business was actually a candy store in grade school,” Birge said. “I had a really great business model. My mom would go to Wal-Mart and buy candy bars, and I sold candy out of the bottom locker in school, even to teachers. It was a really good model because I'd sell candy and then when I'd take the money at the end of the day, I'd go to the arcade and spend it.

Mar 14, 2024 | nebraskapublicmedia.org | Mike Tobias

There is a lot of Nebraska on the International Space Station so far this year, with three research projects happening in different ways. We’ve followed one of these projects for a couple years, a group of young scientists creating a small satellite that’s scheduled to be on a launch to the Space Station next week. We first saw the Big Red Satellite team two years ago, when a couple dozen mostly teenagers were working in the morning summer heat in a barren area of Innovation Campus in Lincoln.