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Was just reading today’s copy of Gasconade County Republican both on Gasconade County R-1 and R-2 schools finances and have some thoughts and questions.
Way back as Missouri entered into LOTTO …
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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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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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I know a tributary to Truman Lake that normally is little more than a creek, but when the area gets enough rain and the lake rises it draws a big bunch of white bass. So I went up there a week …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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5/12/26
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I have been thinking a lot about old telephone numbers ever since my sister-in-law shared this little tidbit the other day:
“Shout out to everyone who can still remember their childhood …
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by Bruce H. Heberle
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5/6/26
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My grandfather got his first breech-loader shotgun in 1911 by guiding turkey hunters in the fall and winter in north Texas County on his father’s land bordering a northern section of the Big Piney …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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5/6/26
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ST. LOUIS – Peregrine falcon chicks have hatched in Franklin County, continuing a successful conservation partnership among Ameren Missouri, World Bird Sanctuary and the Missouri Department of …
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5/6/26
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Jefferson City — Twenty bills have been passed by both the Missouri house and senate. Governor Kehoe has signed seven of those bills so far this year. One was a three billion dollar additional …
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By Paul Hamby
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5/6/26
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She was there with you, surrounding you, while you grew arms and legs and eyelids. Your heart beat in harmony with hers. Her blood was your blood; her oxygen, yours. She kept you safe and protected …
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By Robin Garrison Leach
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5/6/26
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I have been in Gasconade Manor District since March 16.
Everyone has been so good to me , from the administrators to cleaning and maintenance.
I would recommend this nursing home to any …
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5/6/26
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I came across a wild turkey nest with eight eggs in it in late April. I doubted it would have many more because the hen was sitting on the nest incubating them before I came along in mid-morning. …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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5/5/26
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Democrat political strategist James Carville is worried. He is worried about democracy in America. And to save it, he is encouraging leaders in his party to resort to drastic measures to “save …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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5/5/26
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“There are very fine people on both sides” Donald Trump took a lot of heat for this statement regarding the ‘Unite the Right’ white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August …
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By Paul Hamby
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4/29/26
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State lawmakers have advanced to the ballot a misleading tax scheme that would result in a massive tax hike for most Missourians. While the richest Missourians will pad their investment accounts, the …
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by Amy Blouin , President, CEO Missouri Budget Project
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4/29/26
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When you have more than one child, it becomes difficult to remember their names. Oh, you know who’s who. And it is easy to pick them out in a crowd of other kids: “mine…mine…not mine…looks …
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By Robin Garrison Leach
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4/29/26
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