Photo of the week from the March 31, 2023, edition of the Kiowa County Press in Eads, Colorado - Storm clouds over southeast Colorado - Chris Sorensen.

APPOINTMENTS:

• 9:00am   Open meeting-vouchers-
• 9:30am   Cindy McLoud – KCEDF Update
• 10:00am Diana Flory – County Held Property
• 10:15am R&B Foremen – Bridges / Employees
• 11:00am  
• 11:30am           
• LUNCH     JJ’s Restaurant
• 1:00pm             
• 1:30pm             

With an average hourly wage of under $15 in 2021, many Nebraska agricultural workers would be hard-pressed to afford an attorney if they needed one for a workplace issue.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is in hot water after regulators seemed to suggest they had more money than they could spend but needed to spend it anyway.

New findings confirm suspicions about the top reasons many students considered dropping out of college over the last six months.

Over the past two years, a drumbeat of calls for reforming the World Bank has pushed its way onto the front pages of major newspapers and the agenda of heads of state.

Since the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Arizona’s most-populous county has added tens of thousands more residents than any other county in America.

States continue to grapple with recent spikes in fatal overdoses tied to opioids. Now, a federal agency has taken what aid groups say is a big step in preventing such deaths.

Extreme fire danger and high winds are returning to the eastern plains of Colorado Thursday, with dangerous conditions continuing into Friday.

A survey of Colorado business leaders found pessimistic expectations for the upcoming second quarter of 2023 and a majority believe the U.S. will enter a recession this year.