out west roundup
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Professor names beetle species after ‘Game of Thrones’
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NEBRAKSA Professor names beetle species after ‘Game of Thrones’ LINCOLN, Nebraska- A Nebraska entomologist has named three of his eight newest beetle discoveries after the dragons from the HBO series “Game of Thrones” and George R.R. Martin book series “A Song of Ice and Fire.” University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor Brett Ratcliffe named the new scarab…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | New Kansas governor’s budget repairs may spark GOP opposition
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KANSAS New governor’s budget repairs may spark GOP opposition TOPEKA, Kansas – The state’s incoming Democratic governor uses words like “decimated” to describe what’s happened to state government over the past decade and will be looking to add staff, boost spending and rethink contracts that outsourced jobs to private companies. Yet the same electorate that…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Idaho test reactor is pivotal in US nuclear power strategy
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IDAHO Test reactor is pivotal in nuclear power strategy IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY, Idaho – A nuclear test reactor that can melt uranium fuel rods in seconds is running again after a nearly quarter-century shutdown as U.S. officials try to revamp a fading nuclear power industry with safer fuel designs and a new generation of power…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Polygamous group lets go of sprawling Arizona worship center
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ARIZONA Polygamous group lets go of sprawling worship center A polygamous group based on the Utah-Arizona border is letting go of the sprawling building where its members worshipped, in the latest sign that the sect run by imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs is crumbling and losing control of the community it ruled for a century. The…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Plan seeks to designate Route 66 as National Historic Trail
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NEW MEXICO Plan seeks to designate Route 66 as National Historic Trail ALBUQUERQUE – A new proposal moving through Congress seeks to designate Route 66, the highway that connected Chicago to Los Angeles and was once an economic driver for small towns across a post-World War II nation, as a National Historic Trail. U.S. Sens.…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Border town once invaded by Pancho Villa rejects talk of troops
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NEW MEXICO Border town once invaded by Pancho Villa rejects talk of troops COLUMBUS, New Mexico – A small New Mexico border town once attacked by Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa is rejecting talk of a wall and troops while embracing its legacy to draw tourists. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has cited Villa’s 1916 raid…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Utah legalizes medical pot, expands Medicaid
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UTAH State legalizes medical pot, expands Medicaid SALT LAKE CITY – Voters in conservative Utah have decided to join the growing number of states legalizing medical marijuana and expanding Medicaid to cover tens of thousands more low-income residents, two issues that had long stalled out with conservative state lawmakers. Utah will be on the list…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Dodge City moves its only polling place outside town
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Here’s a roundup of news from Colorado’s neighbor states. Iconic Dodge City moves its only polling place outside town WICHITA, Kansas – Access to the ballot box in November will be more difficult for some people in Dodge City, where Hispanics now make up 60 percent of its population and have remade an iconic Wild…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Mushrooms could help clean toxic groundwater in New Mexico
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Mushrooms could help clean toxic groundwater SANTA FE – Water conservationists and a Native American women’s advocacy group believe they’ve found a potential solution to a massive, decades-old underground plume of toxic chromium that likely has spread from property owned by Los Alamos National Laboratory to San Ildefonso Pueblo land. The key ingredient? Mushrooms. They…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Former Kansas Republican governor endorses Democrat
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Former Republican governor endorses Democrat over GOP nominee KANSAS CITY – Republicans in Kansas further splintered this week as the last moderate member of the party to hold the governor’s office endorsed a Democrat for governor over Kris Kobach, the GOP nominee. In a statement, former Kansas Gov. Bill Graves said he planned to support…