Life in Eads and Kiowa County, Colorado, as observed by Doris Lessenden.

California’s governor and San Francisco’s mayor worked together to act early in confronting the COVID threat. For Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio, it was a different story, and 27,000 New Yorkers have died so far.

Conspiratorial videos and websites about COVID-19 are going viral. Here’s how one of the authors of “The Conspiracy Theory Handbook” says you can fight back. One big takeaway: Focus your efforts on people who can hear evidence and think rationally.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is now drawing a distinction between those who died from COVID-19 and those who died from other causes while infected by the disease.

Recommendations around mask usage are confusing. The science isn't. Evidence shows that masks are extremely effective to slow the coronavirus and may be the best tool available right now to fight it.

Top articles from the Kiowa County Press in Eads, Colorado, for the week ending May 16, 2020.

The Shack investigates possible justifications for suffering and evil in the world, and how these relate with popular notions of God in the Christian tradition as all-knowing, all-powerful and good.

Pearls of faith from Pastor Richard Zabriskie.

From the 133-year history of the Kiowa County Press in Eads, Colorado.