David Hayes

Two months on after the Polk County Fair came and went, the county commissioners received an after-action report Oct. 8 from Fair Board Chairman Tim Ray and fairgrounds manager Tina Anderson. However, commissioner Jeremy Gordon didn't need their numbers-crunching report when his own son provided key feedback the week of the fair.

With grand plans to expand its fairgrounds to attract more and larger exhibitors, county leaders are focusing on what can be accomplished in the short term.

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A small cemetery is proving to be a big problem for Polk County Commissioners who have to weigh preserving the historic site against moving it in the wake of encroaching Mother Nature.

Brinlee Dunn, 4, is a little wary of the caged skeletons guarding a trunk full of candy, while attending Synergize Auto’s first ever Trunk or Treat with parents Jordan and

\The Polk County Republicans have reached an agreement with the county clerk's office to reinstate in-person election ballot observation for the Nov. 5 election.

Growing up, McKenzie Darr thought she wanted to pursue a career as a teacher. That was until she developed a fear of public speaking in front of large audiences, i.e., a classroom full of eager-eyed students.

Quantum error correction protects logical quantum information against environmental decoherence by encoding logical qubits into entangled states of physical qubits. One of the most important near-term challenges in building a scalable quantum computer is to reach the break-even point, where logical quantum circuits on error-corrected qubits achieve higher fidelity than equivalent circuits on uncorrected physical qubits. Using Quantinuum’s H2 trapped-ion quantum processor, we encode the Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GHZ) state in four logical qubits with fidelity (after postselecting on over 98% of outcomes). Using the same quantum processor, we can prepare an uncorrected GHZ state on four physical qubits with fidelity. The logical qubits are encoded in a Tanner-transformed long-range-enhanced surface code. Logical entangling gates are implemented using simple swap operations. Our results are a first step toward realizing fault-tolerant quantum computation with logical qubits encoded in geometrically nonlocal quantum low-density parity check codes.

Former Minnesota Vikings head football coach Dennis Green once angrily said after a loss to the Chicago Bears, “They are who we thought they were!”

With their fall production debuting on Halloween, the Dallas High School Theatre department decided to scare up an audience for their debut of “Clue: High School Edition.”