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I have covered the subject of today’s column before, but it’s worth revisiting now that another clear example is in the national news.
It is easy to understand. When a social …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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6/16/26
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If I were ever asked to list the ten things I have enjoyed the most in my life as a fisherman, not too far down the line I would list, “watching a bobber”. It was one of life’s greatest …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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6/10/26
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All through winter, we dreamed of the day we could go barefoot again. We wedged double-socked feet into rigid snow boots; our toes wriggled like worms on fishhooks. Scrunched together, covered with …
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By Robin Garrison Leach
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6/10/26
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WASHINGTON — Congress waded into the fight Wednesday over how college athletic departments pay their athletes and fund their programs.
Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt is one of four co-authors of …
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By Kaleb Anderson, Missouri News Network
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6/10/26
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Increased fines and penalties for not stopping at school buses loading and unloading children
Missouri House Bill 2742, sponsored by Rep Mike Jones passed on the final day of the 2026 …
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By Paul Hamby
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6/9/26
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Most of us have been touched by cancer in some way. Maybe we have friends or family who’ve been diagnosed, or maybe you’re one of the 18 million people in the U.S. living as a cancer survivor.
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By Dr. Graham A. Colditz, Siteman Cancer Center
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6/9/26
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In 2012 the Missouri Press Convention was held in Columbia. Connie and I packed up quickly — after an awards luncheon — to return home for a barbecue hosted by the Gasconade County Republican …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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6/9/26
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As a seventeen-year old freshman at School of the Ozarks College in the mid-60s I studied fishing mostly! With Table Rock Lake so close and my having a key to the gate and boat on the school’s …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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6/9/26
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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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Most of the systems we rely on every day receive attention only when something breaks.
We don’t talk about roads when traffic flows, or water systems when the tap turns on. These systems fade …
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by SCOTT RUPP
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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.”
March …
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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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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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