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It was probably more than 15 years ago that I picked up a radio program talking about the rise of socialism and what this would take.
It would be led by what was called The Deep State and would …
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10/21/26
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Dear Editor.
The passing of retired editor, Tom Warden, triggered some special memories for me of the Warden family.
I feel blessed to have known four generations of that special Gasconade …
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10/21/26
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Dear Editor,
Every human being has been endowed with an unalienable right to life. From that unalienable right flows the principle of equal rights of all under the law, which disappears if the …
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10/21/26
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W estern civilization is under attack. Not by the Soviets or the Red China military. It’s being attacked by a combined force of far-left progressives pushing socialism and revolutionary Islam. Some …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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10/21/26
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My mother-in-law was a small woman with a voice as soft and earnest as a whisper at bedtime. But what she lacked in vocal heft she made up for in determination and attitude.
She was a confident, …
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By Robin Garrison Leach
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10/21/26
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This Sunday morning I am sitting on my back porch watching the birds and squirrels around the feeders. It is so dry that the watering bowl has attracted six or seven species of birds and a …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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10/20/26
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Amendment 3 is the most controversial bill on your November ballot.
Amendment 3 has two subjects. First, it has provisions dealing with abortion and secondly it moves to the constitution the …
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By Paul Hamby
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10/20/26
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A couple weeks ago, as the weather cooled and the acorns pelted my rooftop, a covey of 15 or 20 quail fed around in my back yard for much of an afternoon. The big oaks are producing a lot of acorns …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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10/14/26
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Time to say farewell was the title of my uncle Tom Warden’s last column printed on Feb. 28, 2001, in the Gasconade County Republican . Tom died on Oct. 8. His obituary can be found on page 9.
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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10/14/26
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It used to be referred to by a full noun. Telephone. Sometimes ‘phone’. Never ‘cell’. We had telephones in our houses, connected to our walls or sitting on tables. Usually, there was only …
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By Robin Garrison Leach
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10/14/26
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I used to secretly laugh at my mother as she, in her older years, would use a flashlight, in the daytime to check the thermostat. I shouldn’t have, because I had been told, while in the Highway …
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10/14/26
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It’s been two years since my column on abortion asked abortion advocates to convince me that the child in a mother’s womb is not human. I’m still waiting. With adjustments to the first …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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10/14/26
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Often in these meanderings from our back yard I have quoted for Ecclesiastes: “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under ‘the heaven.” It is, for me, the season and the …
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10/13/26
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Two years have now passed since I officially became a ward of the welfare state, and my journey into this deplorable valley of the shadow of bureaucrats still is at best perplexing. As age 67 greets …
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10/13/26
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A few years back I bought a good-sized place in rural St. Clair county with a big house and two cabins on it, intending to make a retreat for small churches that had a youth group but didn’t have …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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10/7/26
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We are required by law to wear seat belts in our cars. But there was a time when Mom was the only seat belt we needed.
In the event of a sudden stop (or even the threat of one), her maternal …
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By Robin Garrison Leach
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10/7/26
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When Missouri adopted its first constitution in 1820, the office of sheriff was explicitly established and required sheriffs to be elected by voters. This constitutional status was maintained …
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By Paul Hamby
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10/7/26
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I have been thinking a lot about my 101-year-old mother-in-law ever since she passed on September 18th. I was blessed to be one of those with her at the end and the last two weeks of her life. What …
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by Bruce H. Heberle
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10/7/26
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I n a short 27 days, Missourians will head to the polls for the midterm elections. On the ballot will be Amendment 3 to make abortion more in line with the values of Missouri citizens.
In this …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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10/7/26
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Last Wednesday I opened up the paper to do a quick glance at the pages, as is my habit.
My heart sank. The Editorial/Opinion page was not correct. It was a repeat of page two from Sept. …
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9/30/26
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