Bobbie Boyd talks Aug. 9about this summer’s heat in her apartment that she shares with her 15-year-old grandson, Jeremiah Williams, in Fayetteville, Ark. On a fixed income, Ms. Boyd sacrifices meals, health care, and car insurance among other necessities, to pay rent and keep cool in the midst of this summer’s prolonged heat waves.
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Bobbie Boyd is in a losing battle against near triple-digit temperatures in Northwest Arkansas.
