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  Top articles for the week ending August 19, 2023
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  - Court orders Forest Service to reconsider closed logging roads
 - During hotter stretches, pets need to stay cool, too
 - Hurricane Hilary triggers Southern California’s first tropical storm warning ever
 - A new Medicare proposal would cover training for family caregivers
 - Federal court vacates approval of Utah oil-train project opposed by Colorado local governments
 - Wyoming officials critical of BLM's plans for Rock Springs
 - National Civility Month: Can a respectful tone ever return to politics?
 - New Mexico, Kansas senators introduce bill to strengthen farmers' drought protection
 - FEMA’s disaster relief fund is running low on cash. What happens now?
 - ChatGPT and other language AIs are nothing without humans
 - Arizona Department of Education say schools shouldn't allow transgender girls to use girls' bathrooms
 - Reminder from the Town of Eads
 - Eads Board of Trustees meeting minutes - July 10, 2023
 - Pastor’s Pearls – August 20, 2023
 - Birthdays and Anniversaries - August 21-27, 2023
 - EarthTalk - How are amphibians doing?
 - Cooking at Home - Mouth-Watering Oven-Fried Fish
 - Curious Kids: What is most likely going on in Area 51?
 - Photo of the week - August 18, 2023
 - Movies - Lamar Theatre - 2023-08-18
 - Archdiocese of Denver suing Colorado over exclusion from universal preschool program
 - Colorado economy 'sending mixed signals,' midyear report says
 - State investigating Buena Vista prison staff discrimination claims
 - Staying informed becomes harder for North Dakotans
 - Changing climate, growing human populations and widespread fires contributed to the last major extinction event
 - KBI looking into possible data breach in Kansas newspaper case
 - U.S. House Bill would minimize local input on cell tower location
 - Utah files appeal in national monuments case
 - Self-censoring on campus more common among Republican students
 - Help Wanted - Maintenance Working
 - Help Wanted - Deputies
 - Obituary - Judith ‘Judy’ Darlene Hammer
 - Obituary - Leon Dwight Tanck
 - BLM rule challenged by oil allies in Congress
 - Dear Dietitian - Do keto pills help with weight loss?
 - More money, more problems for national broadband expansion
 - Can coffee or a nap make up for sleep deprivation?
 - Commentary: Cool this summer. Will next year bring killer heat?
 - How to transition your garden from summer to fall
 - Xcel plan to reduce emissions includes untested technologies
 - Department of Defense missed half of watchdog deadlines so far this year
 - Colorado counties receiving $945K in funding to improve election security
 - Kiowa County weather recap - August 16, 2023
 - Farm bill timeline in flux as a messy September for Congress nears
 - Cooking at Home - Mixed Grain Bread
 - Georgia and Colorado election security breaches part of same ongoing threat
 - Arizona governor declares state of emergency over extreme heat
 - Fulton grand jury indicts Trump, members of his inner circle
 - Kansas newspaper’s lawyer chastises police for treating newspaper as ‘drug cartel,’ ‘street gang’
 - Idaho voter registration law could hurt ballot measures' chances
 - Swiss firm agrees to pay $1.4 billion to settle DOJ suit over 2008 financial crisis
 - Higher earners, people with college degrees more likely to work remote, report finds
 - Hickenlooper, Polis hail clean energy investments at new Thornton battery plant
 - U.S. sees troubling reversal in suicide numbers
 - Raw milk gets foot in the door in North Dakota, but health risk warnings remain
 - Tommy Tuberville reportedly doesn’t live in Alabama − should he still be its senator?
 - Colorado warns Medicaid recipients personal information was part of cyber attack
 - Arizona GOP leaders threaten lawsuit over proposed elections manual
 - Arizona Attorney General warns of student loan repayment scams
 - EarthTalk - Is there any way to stem the tide of fiberglass pollution?
 - Grace Lutheran Church Weekly Devotion - Matthew 14:22–33
 - Thoughts, Things, and Trivia by Jack – August 15, 2023
 - Judge sides with youth in Montana climate change trial, finds two laws unconstitutional
 - Impact of lost grasslands on rural economies and carbon sinks
 - Teachers union sues Woodland Park School District over ‘gag order’ policy
 - Consumers seeing relief in some food prices as inflation continues to slow
 - Movie Review: Meg 2: The Trench
 - Opinion: Powerful voices speak up for Kansas paper after shocking raid. Meanwhile, where’s the affidavit?
 - KBI director on Kansas newspaper raid: Media is not ‘above the law’
 - About Town – August 14, 2023
 - USDA Update – August 14, 2023
 - Trump’s January 6 indictment annotated for Colorado
 - Home Country – Looking in to the coals
 - Pages from the Past - From our 136-year Archives for August 13, 2023
 - Top articles for the week ending August 12, 2023
 - Colorado college teams run into red ink
 - Report: Colorado unemployment low, job openings high, labor force growing
 - Congress brought back earmarks. Now they’re one more point of drama in a divided House.
 - Mewbourne Oil pays $5 million to New Mexico, federal government over violations
 - Wildfires are a severe blow to Maui’s tourism-based economy, but other iconic destinations have come back from similar disasters
 - Contacting your legislator? Cite your sources – if you want them to listen to you
 - Community college trains Iowa wind energy workers
 - Solar cell plant to open in New Mexico, if it gets federal loan guarantee
 - Opinion: In newspaper raid, a grim threat to Kansans’ First Amendment rights
 - Police defend raid on Kansas newspaper amid backlash over ‘brazen violation of press freedom’
 - Birthdays and Anniversaries - August 14-20, 2023
 - EarthTalk – Does grilling generate a lot of pollution and greenhouse gases?
 - Cooking at Home - Garlic Ginger Ramen with Beef
 - Curious Kids: What’s the difference between a startup and any other business?
 - Kiowa County Sheriff’s Report - July 2023
 - Forrest McCurren to perform free concert at Boggsville
 - Obituary - Reverend Dr. Donald J. Jones
 - Funeral Services – Lillian "Lill" Wilson Penn
 - Biden asks Congress for $40B for Ukraine aid, U.S. disaster response, border security
 - USPS posts another quarterly loss adding to more than $87 billion in losses
 - Poll finds 48 percent of Iowa Republicans would want Trump to campaign from prison
 - Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Kansas newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones
 - ‘Huge scam’ in rural Kansas town fells fourth U.S. bank in 2023
 - Judge dismisses Colorado's motion to stop lawsuit on transportation fees
 - Grand Junction’s mayor says she’s the one who can unseat Rep. Lauren Boebert
 
- Death Notice - Judith “Judy” Hammer
 - Kiowa County Commissioners meeting minutes - July 27, 2023
 - Judge dismisses Colorado's motion to stop lawsuit on transportation fees
 - Community - Prairie Pines Hawaiian Luau
 - Help Wanted - Full-Time QMAP
 - Colorado lawmakers urge insurers to honor deductible payments from former Friday Health Plans enrollees
 - Illinois Supreme Court upholds state’s gun and magazine ban
 - Mental health crisis among Gen Z sparks concern
 - Inflation rose more than expected in latest federal data
 - Grand Junction’s mayor says she’s the one who can unseat Rep. Lauren Boebert
 - Maui wildfires: Extra logistical challenges hinder government’s initial response when disasters strike islands
 - Letter to the Editor – Break the mental health stigma
 - Native Hawaiian sacred sites have been damaged in the Lahaina wildfires
 - U.S. suicides hit all-time high in 2022, CDC says
 - 2023 Kiowa County 4-H Exhibit Day Results