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A year ago, before being elected President, Joe Biden was skeptical of a vaccine for COVID-19. In a September 2020 interview, Biden suggested a vaccine would be unsafe because then-President …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/22/21
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I always figure the yellow leaves on the walnut trees tell me a lot about the upcoming fall. This year that yellowing foliage on the walnuts here on Lightnin’ Ridge is really late. Could be …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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9/15/21
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A farmer’s work is never really done. Whether it’s raising livestock, harvesting crops, cleaning barns, maintaining equipment or one of the other hundreds of chores that goes into running …
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By State Sen. Mike Bernskoetter,
Missouri’s 6th District
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9/15/21
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The date was Saturday, Sept. 9, 1978. I was a freshman at the University of Missouri in Columbia playing a round of golf for my dormitory on the University’s course as part of an intramural …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/15/21
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Most Americans alive 20 years ago remember where they were on September 11, 2001.
They remember the airplane hijackings, the attacks, and the collapse of the Twin Towers. They remember the nearly …
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By Lee H. Hamilton
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9/9/21
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Many days have been important to history in my 60 plus years of life on this earth. I have no recollection of a large number of these.
On Nov. 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/9/21
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Sometime in mid September Midwest states have a special two week teal season. Blue-winged teal are unusual ducks. They come early; sometimes arriving in the Ozarks during the last week or so in …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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9/8/21
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The Postal Service was scheduled to raise postage rates on Sunday (Aug. 29) after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied a petition by National Newspaper Association …
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From The National Newspaper Association
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9/1/21
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President Joe Biden’s poll numbers plunged to a dismal 41 percent approval, 55 percent disapproval in a recent national poll. This was before an ISIS-K terrorist bomber killed an estimated 70 …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/1/21
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In early September, hundreds and hundreds of young doves in nests will die because of the September 1 opening of the dove season. I know that the majority of dove hunters don’t know that, and …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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9/1/21
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Have you ever thought about what it would be like to be rich? By this, I don’t mean not having to worry about money. I’m talking Thurston Howell III rich. Rich enough to employ servants …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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8/25/21
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A month ago, we wrote a column on COVID-19 identifying a band of mostly rural counties from eastern Montana/western North Dakota down through Missouri and Texas and across the South where …
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By Dr. Harwood D. Schaffer and Dr. Daryll E. Ray
Agricultural Policy Analysis Center
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8/25/21
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About 20 years ago I flew out to a little lake in northwest Ontario with Canadian guide and bush pilot, Tinker Helseth. It was a place where Tinker’s father, Forrest Helseth, who had also been …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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8/25/21
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Perhaps the most dangerous movement the progressive element of the Democrat party is pushing today in America is critical race theory (CRT).
Before I go any further, let’s define what …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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8/18/21
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I don’t think I ever witnessed what the squirrels are doing here on Lightnin’ Ridge this summer. They are chewing up the white oak acorns in my back yard, and it started the first week of …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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8/18/21
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This year was the second time I’ve seen the power women legislators can have when they are united.
The latest was success of a bi-partisan group of Missouri women senators to force a compromise …
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By Phill Brooks, Contributing Columnist
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8/13/21
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JEFFERSON CITY — Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Missouri’s entry into the United States, announced a reading of Missouri’s Constitution was …
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8/12/21
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Do you have a great idea for a business? Or already own a business and are looking for ways to take it to the next level? A loan could provide the extra boost your small business needs.
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By Sam Tulip, Loan Specialist, Center for Rural Affairs
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8/12/21
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In Missouri, a 2015 law prevents legislators from banning single use plastics, a devastating source of pollution that has largely gone unrecycled.
Half of all plastics are meant to be used only …
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By Xander Negozio of the Missouri Information Corps
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8/12/21
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In Congress, policy negotiations often center on a couple questions: how much does the bill cost and how much does the bill save?
But the intense focus on these numbers can have the effect of …
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By Joe Crowley and Bill Shuster
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8/12/21
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