Q: I read that there is a limited supply of helium, which is important for MRI machines and other industrial uses. So why do we waste it filling party balloons? Although helium is the second most ...

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In announcing earlier this month that 45 Party City stores will close, CEO James M. Harrison also remarked on the company’s financial shortfalls in balloon sales, blaming the ongoing helium shortage.

Otis, Kansas, is almost smack-dab in the middle of the Sunflower State, a community of about 280 people named after the son of the man who founded the town in 1886. It has a farmers coop, post office, ...