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March 24, 2025 — 23andMe has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, raising serious concerns about the future of the genetic data of over 14 million users. As the company begins a court-supervised sale of its assets, customers and privacy advocates alike are asking what happens next to some of the most personal information a company…
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The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) is required to document the prevailing wage and practices each year for a particular segment of the Colorado agriculture sector and report these back to the US Department of Labor. For the 2025 survey, CDLE is collaborating with Colorado State University Extension (CSUE) to develop and deliver…
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The names of those who lived in Springfield and community back in the year 1889 disclosed in a The Democrat-Herald (Springfield, Colorado) 25 Jan 1935. — clipping from the Springfield Herald, the predecessor to The Democrat-Herald. This is a reprint of a February 25, 1889 letter written from Springfield, Colorado and reprinted in the…
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I thought it would be fun to start looking at various festivals and fairs held in Southeast Colorado/ Southwest Kansas/ Baca County through the years. Sam Konkel mentions an 1888 fair in Boston, Springfield, and Minneapolis, but there isn’t a whole lot of detail, so I am going to start with one of the earliest events;…
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Greetings from an unseasonably mild but windy Casper Wyoming. I have a little bit of reflection and a couple of messages related to a local history blog, social media, and the sparks that lit a book project about one of the wildest little towns of the old west. Four years ago, I launched Bacacountyhistory.com. At…
