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To the Editor:
Chinese communists are taking away our farm lands and infiltrating our government!
Libtards are advocating educating our children to become transgender socialists!
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9/16/26
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Dear Editor:
“Ford’s Follies” (aka the Linn Police Department) are about as effective as Dwight Massey was as Mayor.
They don’t mind sitting on the Town Square, by the Donut Shop, …
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9/16/26
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M istakes are unavoidable in government, business, and the game of life. The trick is to learn from those errors, make quick adjustments, and move on.
The news is full of errors that major …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/16/26
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It’s 9 a.m. I’ve finished Wordle, read the latest obits in the area, and scrolled through Facebook. The world outside my living room window is chugging along: cars whizzing here and there, people …
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By Robin Garrison Leach
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9/16/26
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By Larry Dablemont
Trotlines are productive, and they are enjoyable this time of year when the heat makes nighttime activity more acceptable. But trotlines are hard work, and they …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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9/15/26
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Missouri has been a consistent leader in agriculture for more than 200 years.
Missouri has fertile farm ground, abundant pasture land and vast hardwood timber. Agriculture has always been our …
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By Paul Hamby
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9/15/26
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L ike most of my friends, I found history in high school uninteresting, to say the least. Really, it was boring. As I remember it, no one liked our history class. But you had to take it to graduate.
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/9/26
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Mom always had a perfectly-sized box ready and waiting. I’d climb onto the bed and under the covers, all sniffly and feverish, and wait for the sound of a serrated kitchen knife cutting through …
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By Robin Garrison Leach
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9/9/26
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SB 1408. The Missouri legislature raised the top legal speed limit from 70 to 75 mph on rural sections of interstate highways I-70, I-44, I-29 and I-35. Governor Kehoe signed the bill …
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By Paul Hamby
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9/9/26
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Reading, writing, and arithmetic…three R’s…and that is the rub. While all three contain R, only reading starts with one. We repeat it because it sounds right and nobody checks. In a messy …
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9/9/26
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G overnment 101. Time for a refresher course concerning Missouri government and our constitution.
In Missouri, there are three ways to amend the constitution: legislative proposals, …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/2/26
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It was a nice little cove with clear water, and it looked to be a good place to fish a topwater lure, late in the evening as the hot sun dipped below the horizon. There was a nice little rock cliff …
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9/2/26
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In Sevier County Tenn., the 1990 drop out rate for the public school was 35 percent. This created a lot of adults who could not read or write or hold any but the simplest jobs. One person stepped up …
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By Paul Hamby
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9/2/26
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When I was growing up, smoking was as normal as breathing. We thought it meant we were mature and worldly, and it was a given that we would all smoke someday.
My brother, Jim, always the …
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By Robin Garrison Leach
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9/2/26
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Several new Missouri laws taking effect by the end of August are bringing changes to health care access, insurance coverage, pharmacy services, maternal health, disability services, and protections …
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by Bruce Sassmann , State Representative District 61
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9/2/26
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O ne thing that makes the United States of America unique is that it is made up of 50 individual states. These states share many similarities with how they are run, but no two are identical.
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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8/26/26
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My daughter climbed the steps of the school bus on the first day of kindergarten, her tiny legs stretching to meet each stair. She plopped down on a bench facing our home and glanced out the window.
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By Robin Garrison Leach
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8/26/26
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I have been thinking a lot about how important insects are to the circle of life. My wife and her sister Debi are doing their part by trying to help Monarch butterflies thrive and survive in the …
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by DOUG WOJCIESZAK
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8/26/26
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Today I love to watch both gray and fox squirrels from my porch, and there is one tree just a ways from my office where baby gray squirrels are born every year. They emerge from the hole in the early …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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8/25/26
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It took 9 years to get the PDMP, Prescription Drug Monitoring Program passed in Missouri. PDMP is a program where your confidential prescription medication information is shared through a network of …
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By Paul Hamby
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8/25/26
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