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Thanks to the * button on my TV remote, I’ve become an avid TV reader. The moment I land on a show I want to watch, my fingers toggle the CAPTIONS button. I settle in to read the latest episode.
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6/3/26
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The old saying goes, “Actions speak louder than words.” And of course it is true. You can always tell more about who someone is and what their intentions are by what they do, not what they say.
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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6/2/26
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There are high school graduation ceremonies going on around the country this month, causing me to remember mine, back in Houston High School in the sixties. I was only 17 when I graduated and never …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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6/2/26
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In 2025, Missouri legislators passed Senate Bill 4 as an oversight for how data centers operate in Missouri. The bill requires massive data centers to cover 100% of their own power usage and directly …
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By Paul Hamby
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6/2/26
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A vacation by car is not the adventure it used to be. Now, with restaurants and rest stops almost everywhere, one particular struggle of traveling is eliminated.
Travel back with me to the …
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By Robin Garrison Leach
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5/27/26
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I have been thinking a lot recently about things I have only done once. Some of those things were dumb, some were very scary and others so much fun! I read somewhere that: “There are things you …
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by Bruce Heberle
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5/27/26
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In Missouri and states across the country, testing and accountability stand at a crossroads. While states still administer annual assessments and hold schools accountable for their students’ …
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by Eric Syverson
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5/27/26
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Missouri state law specifies: “Bond elections may be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in February but no other issue shall be included on the ballot for such election.”
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By Paul Hamby
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5/26/26
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If I write a second book about turkey hunting, one of the stories would be about the spring that I took Dr. David Fell on a hunt in Texas County, in the heart of the Ozarks. Dr. Fell was a client …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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5/26/26
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One of the benefits of attending a top-ranked university, like the University of Missouri in Columbia, is the speakers and entertainment they bring in.
In my four years of attendance — plus …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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5/26/26
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Dear Editor:
To Jenny Smith who had an article of questions on Feb. 17, which I took the time to research and answered every question posed. I sent my article in not once, not twice, but three …
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5/20/26
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The Missouri legislature just finished the 2026 regular session. January 7 - May 15. The legislators were in session 68 days during that time, plus hundreds of committee hearings and many hours …
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By Paul Hamby
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5/20/26
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My grandmother died when I was a little girl. Since we lived across the street from our church and cemetery, Mom and I visited the gravesite often.
Mom held my hand as we trotted across the …
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By Robin Garrison Leach
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5/20/26
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Most of us don’t think too much about the liver. And that’s normal. Hearts and lungs seem to get many more health headlines and social media posts. But like all organs, the liver quietly does …
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By Dr. Graham A. Colditz, Siteman Cancer Center
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5/19/26
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Some Christian philosophers contend that evil is simply the absence of good. According to Wikipedia, “This is known as the privation theory of evil, a theological and philosophical doctrine that …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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5/19/26
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After reading the Letter to the Editor in the newspaper’s May 6th Mail Bag titled “Defence of Peter Scheizer”, it occurred to me that both its author and I base our views of the world …
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5/13/26
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In March, both chambers of the Missouri legislature began hearings on proposals to introduce electrical choice and competition, challenging the state’s long-standing model of electricity generation …
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by JASON WALTER AND GRANT MUSICK
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5/13/26
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Senior high school students have been doing it for decades. At the end of their final year, the class concocts a few elaborate, annoying, sometimes funny ways to mark their exit.
Well. We who …
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By Robin Garrison Leach
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5/13/26
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The budget was passed on Wednesday May 6 before the constitutional deadline. How much is the new budget? Missouri independent is reporting a 50.7 billion dollar budget. KOMU TV is reporting a 48.7 …
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By Paul Hamby
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5/13/26
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A crying shame is a situation that makes you sad or disappointed. For some of us, a crying shame also describes legislation passed in opposition to those issues we are so passionate about. The …
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By State Rep. Bruce Sassmann, Missouri’s 61st District
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5/13/26
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