{"id":32695,"date":"2022-04-27T11:32:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=32695"},"modified":"2023-01-24T10:31:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:31:04","slug":"omaha-state-senator-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=32695","title":{"rendered":"Omaha state senator dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rich Pahls of Omaha has died after a brief illness.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28756\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28756\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28756\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=28756\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenPahls_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communicati&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D X Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Rich Pahls. District 31. Nebraska Legislature. November 9, 2020.  Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1604946191&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2020, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;115&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenPahls_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Rich Pahls&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Rich Pahls&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenPahls_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28756\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenPahls_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Rich Pahls\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenPahls_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenPahls_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Rich Pahls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>First elected in 2004, Pahls served District 31 until he was term limited out of office in 2013. He subsequently was elected to the Omaha City Council before returning to the Legislature in 2021. He served on the Banking, Commerce and Insurance and Revenue committees.<\/p>\n<p>Pahls was born Aug. 7, 1943, in Jewel, Kansas and earned a PhD in education from the University of Nebraska Omaha. He spent 32 years as a teacher and administrator in the Millard School District.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Mike Hilgers of Lincoln announced Pahls\u2019 death to lawmakers in an email April 27.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a champion of Omaha and a selfless public servant who was a friend to so many here in the Legislature, and he will be greatly missed,\u201d Hilgers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rich Pahls of Omaha has died after a brief illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,18],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-32695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-senator-features","tag-sen-rich-pahls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32695"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32697,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32695\/revisions\/32697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}