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A response to last weeks editorial on student loans
I grew up as a very poor child near Vienna, Mo., and I went to Bend School, a one-room school for all of my elementary education. I walked a …
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1/31/24
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This week, the Missouri House passed HB 1749, proposing significant changes to the state’s initiative petition (IP) and referendum process. The legislation aims to amend the Constitution by …
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By State Rep. Bennie Cook, Missouri's 143rd District
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3/6/24
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Y ou will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read. That’s a quote by author and motivational speaker Charlie …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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6/28/23
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M y wife, Connie, and I were not very active in sports as we grew up. Our two boys participated in little league soccer and baseball. Our daughter was the opposite. She spent five days a week in the …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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6/21/23
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Talking with a friend about the debt ceiling negotiations, I mentioned that there were incentives for centrists in Congress to cobble together a deal. My friend said, incredulously, “Do we …
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By Matt Harris
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6/21/23
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Most Americans are aware that the nation is deeply divided, and that politics is intruding everywhere.
They seem to think that we have two equal opposing forces, as shown by razor-thin …
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By Jane Orient
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7/12/23
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Nearly one month has passed since the end of the 2023 legislative session, and of the 62 bills truly agreed and passed by the General Assembly, seven more have officially been signed into law.
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By State Rep. Bruce Sassmann, Missouri’s 61st District
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6/14/23
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B ody integrity identity disorder, or BIID is the latest disorder you may, or may not have seen in the news. According to Wikipedia, it “is a mental disorder characterized by a desire to have a …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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6/14/23
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There’s nothing quite like a “Farm Bill Year.”
For those engaged in agricultural policymaking, it’s a pretty big deal. When farm bills come around, policy wonks love to …
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BY Spencer Tuma
Director of National Legislative Affairs, Missouri Farm Bureau
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6/14/23
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To the Editor:
Just had to drop in and say that article was one of the dumbest things I’ve read all year. It’s so dumb (the AMPLE use of false logical parallels is what first struck …
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6/28/23
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More than one month has passed by since the end of the legislative session. To date, the governor has acted on nine of the 62 bills passed by the Missouri General Assembly:
HB 15, a supplemental …
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By State Rep. Bennie Cook, Missouri's 143rd District
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6/28/23
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Today we are gathering to celebrate the last Sisters Day of 2023. Where has the year gone? It seems like only a couple of months ago I welcomed us to the start of the new year and next month I will …
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1/10/24
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After all those years of joking about being a grizzled old veteran hunter, I now are one and it ain’t no joking matter!
I hunted blue-winged teal during that very first special teal …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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9/13/23
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I talk to outdoorsmen around the Ozarks it is amazing how ignorant they are about their rights as hunters and fishermen. The greater percentage of those I talk to wrongly believe that agents can come …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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11/8/23
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R eleased as a single in April 1975, Charlie Daniels’ “Long Haired Country Boy” only reached 56 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It’s a great song.
Although the refrain would …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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1/24/24
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People need to know about new diseases that result from outdoor living. One of them is known as the ‘Alpha-gal’ syndrome, a sometimes fatal disease people get from the spotted wood tick …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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9/20/23
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There’s an old model ‘97 Winchester pump shotgun hanging on my office wall. It is old and scarred, a long-barreled relic from the good old days of my boyhood. In the fall, when the Ozarks …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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11/15/23
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I was on Lake Wappapello this past week with an old-days college roommate, Darrell Hamby, of Patterson. We were fishing for crappie and reliving old times. That lake is something and though there …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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9/27/23
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Fisheries biologists started creating hybrid fish years ago. It hasn’t always worked out the way they thought it would. The cross of walleyes and saugers, produce something they called a …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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10/4/23
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From the viewpoint of a home-school grammar teacher (since I was in seventh grade), a pronoun is just a short word that takes the place of a noun, so that you don’t have to keep saying the noun …
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by Jane M. Orient, M.D.
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6/21/23
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