Dear EarthTalk:

I am adding a deck onto my house this summer and wonder which decking materials (wood or otherwise) are the greenest?     

Bill A., San Francisco, CA

Colorado crop progress and condition report from the USDA for the week ending May 31, 2020.

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to call in military forces if states and cities cannot control protesters.

U.S. President Donald Trump Monday demanded that governors across the country act aggressively against protestors and threatened military intervention if they did not.

New Greeley County Health Services partnership brings new general surgery practice to southwest Kansas.

Agriculture news and information from the Eads USDA Service Cener in Kiowa County, Colorado.

(The Center Square) – Senate Republicans are pushing to freeze automatic increases to lawmaker salaries and per diem pay as the state slashes its budget because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Chris Holbert, R-Parker, said on the Senate floor that he hopes two bills – one freezing increases to lawmakers' per diem pay and another freezing automatic salary increases – will get late filing approvals from majority leadership in the Senate.

Republicans have submitted late bill requests for both pieces of legislation. 

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

Colorado's annual free fishing weekend is set for June 6-7, 2020.

Constance Louise Weber

May 5, 1959 – May 27, 2020

A Funeral Mass for longtime Trinidad resident Constance Louise Weber will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 2, 2020, at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Kit Carson with Reverend Jason Keas as Celebrant.

A Rosary service will be held prior to the mass at 10:00 a.m. The Rite of Committal will follow the Mass at the Kit Carson Cemetery.