Not too surprising that Realtor.com would be trying to normalize this nonsense, but another example of how troubled the times are.

Not sure about free, but if you can get to Ray County Animal Hospital in Richmond, heard it has decent prices. KU recommends Humane Society of Greater Kansas City or Lawrence Humane Society as lower-cost options, but if you can get to K-State University or University of Missouri, they may have programs as part of their vet schools for lower-cost care. Best of luck for you and the animals!

Exactly; the AP should fix their style guide.

W/o Paywall: https://archive.ph/bHUrA

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” - MLK Jr.

Your point around trying to keep the school boards on the right side of things is of paramount importance. Education is of paramount importance right now.

Absolutely! I get it if you’re stocking up for weather disasters to a degree, but the number of folks who rely strictly on bottled water is too high. Seems that some combination of advertising + fear and convenience have made it too enticing to use single-use water bottles, though. ☹️

Agreed! It’s absolutely insane what passes the public by these days; unfortunately, I think that the extremely fast residence time for anything in the news cycle is getting worse these days…

Thank goodness for the Lincoln Project! Maybe the bully in chief will eventually come to realize he’s not in control here…

They still can; the day is still young…

A Heritage spokesperson told CyberScoop after publication that the organization was not “hacked.” Instead, the spokesperson said “an organized group stumbled upon a two-year-old archive of The Daily Signal website that was available on a public-facing website owned by a contractor. The information obtained was limited to usernames, names, email addresses, and incomplete password information of both Heritage and non-Heritage contributors, as well as article comments and the IP address of the commentor.”

At least they’re admitting to being incompetent…

Absolutely despicable! Thank you for summarizing all of these details, this story has such sprawl it’s difficult to capture just how all the issues factor into one another anymore. Really hope that justice starts to play out in the long term, but I’m not convinced that will happen on account of the corruption emanating from the State; the Kansas Bureau of Investigation decided to involve CBI in the matter, indicating the rot likely permeates much of the state bureaucracy as well.

There’s also the attempt to undermine Kansas’ 2016 Open Records Act in preventing the release of pertinent communications by officials and court records during and shortly before the raid (which many anti-transparency activists in the Kansas GOP are trying to use to get rid of the KORA (1 and 2)).

Most definitely!

At least where I am, they’re in the most uptown bougie strip mall they can get into; same situation with Whole Foods. Starting to shop exclusively at the two state-wide/local stores that don’t have these issues, but wish more folks had access to quality local grocers who pay well and support unions.

That’s a good question, never heard about this before now…