Rural life and humor, with characters from the mind of Slim Randles.

Here’s a movie I didn’t expect to be reviewing two weeks ago. I didn’t know how this anime movie from a franchise unknown to me had managed to get such a plum positioning in theaters, but it was sure to lose to “Mortal Kombat” in its opening weekend and the horror movie “Separation” this past weekend. “Mortal Kombat” did indeed win the films’ opening weekend - $23 million domestically to this film’s $21 million, on twice as many screens.

More than 58,000 fires scorched the United States last year, and 2021 is on track to be even drier. What many people don’t realize is that these wildfires can do lasting damage beyond the reach of the flames.

Anyone who listens to weather reports has heard meteorologists comment that yesterday’s temperature was 3 degrees above normal, or last month was much drier than normal. But what does “normal” mean in this context – and in a world in which the climate is changing?

States were told by the federal government that they can’t use pandemic relief funds passed by Congress in March to lower taxes.

Methane is the world’s second most abundant greenhouse gas. It doesn’t stay in the atmosphere as long as CO2, but it’s many times more potent.

Tensions ran high in Colorado’s House of Representatives on Thursday during a marathon debate over the state’s public option bill.

Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon on Friday issued a directive blocking state agencies from using vaccine passports.

Photo of the week from the May 7, 2021, edition of the Kiowa County Press in Eads, Colorado - Wheat growing in Kiowa County - Chris Sorensen.

In 1861, 11 states tried to leave the United States and form a new country, causing a four-year war. Wars cost a lot of money so the new country, called the Confederate States of America, printed money as a way to pay its bills.