Feeds and sources
These are exactly the sections you can pick when you sign up. Each one is checked against its source every morning.
Sections
| Section | Source | What we send the source |
|---|---|---|
| Local weather: high, low and rain chance (NWS) | National Weather Service forecast (api.weather.gov), cross-checked with Open-Meteo | Your ZIP, turned into map coordinates |
| Weather alerts for your county (NWS) | National Weather Service active alerts (api.weather.gov) | Your county’s NWS zone |
| Sunrise, sunset and the moon | Worked out on our server with NOAA’s solar equations and two moon‑phase methods | Nothing is sent anywhere |
| Upcoming holidays on your calendar | US holiday rules, cross-checked with Nager.Date | Nothing about you is sent |
| Proverb of the Day (KJV) | The Book of Proverbs, King James Version (public domain) | Nothing is sent anywhere |
| DEAD END JOB, the daily comic | An original ALLSEEING strip | Nothing is sent anywhere |
Headlines from
Pick any of these and your paper prints a few of their latest stories. Each headline links to the full story on the source’s own site. Under it is the short summary that the source itself puts out with the story, in the source’s own words. We never rewrite it, and AI never writes it. We use only its first paragraph and only whole sentences: the first two, plus a third if all three fit in 420 characters. Leftover web clutter, like a “…” cut-off or an “appeared first on” line, is taken out. If the source gives no summary, or its first sentence runs past 420 characters, or it only repeats the headline or a link, the story prints just the headline and link.
| Source | Feed | What we send the source |
|---|---|---|
| NPR News | NPR top stories RSS: headline, link and the feed’s own summary | Nothing about you is sent |
| BBC US & Canada | BBC News RSS: headline, link and the feed’s own summary | Nothing about you is sent |
| MarketWatch Top Stories | MarketWatch RSS: headline, link and the feed’s own summary | Nothing about you is sent |
| Brownfield Ag News | Brownfield Ag News RSS: headline, link and the feed’s own summary | Nothing about you is sent |
| Farm Progress | Farm Progress RSS: headline, link and the feed’s own summary | Nothing about you is sent |
To place your ZIP on the map we look it up with Zippopotam.us and the FCC Area API. Only the ZIP or its map coordinates are sent, never your name or email.