Small business owners remind shoppers of the importance of supporting local businesses.Preview: A new study on wildfire smoke shows an increase in emergency room visits the first day smoke plumes reach an area. It also shows an increase in deaths after that. The study by the University of Illinois cross references air quality in Eastern Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Wisconsin with Medicare data and finds 191-thousand emergency room visits and ten-thousand premature deaths over the past 20 years linked to wildfire smoke.