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To the Editor:
I am the principal stock holder and owner along with my sons Kirby Kotthoff and Christopher Kotthoff of Hermann Save-A-Lot (Kotthoff Foods Inc.) and I am very …
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8/2/23
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T here are two types of people in this world, positive and negative. I have been a positive person with a sunny outlook on life for as long as I can remember. When someone asks me how I am doing, I …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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8/2/23
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To the Editor:
“Marijuana is not safe. It can kill you.”
It most certainly can. But then again, so can sharing our nation’s roadways with people who run red lights or …
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8/2/23
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I have been contacted by several readers about the Buffalo River float trip I am going to conduct on Saturday, Oct. 28. It is going to be an all day interpretive trip on the river celebrating the …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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8/2/23
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A merican history lists many great Native American Chiefs, including Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, Geronimo and Cochise. Long before these great leaders was one honored by colonial Americans …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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7/26/23
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In 1965, The Mamas & the Papas sang the words, “I’d be safe and warm/If I was in L.A.,” as part of their hit song “California Dreamin’.” Decades later, if the …
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By Garrett Hawkins, President, Missouri Farm Bureau
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7/26/23
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Missouri Governor Mike Parson has officially given final approval to 31 bills from this year’s legislative session by signing off on a variety of legislation ranging from tax relief for senior …
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By State Rep. Bruce Sassmann, Missouri’s 61st District
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7/26/23
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Fifty years ago this summer I was working at Buffalo River as a naturalist for the National Park Service. It was a grand time and I loved it. In October you can help me celebrate those days and my …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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7/26/23
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M any of my readers may not be old enough, but I remember when the Vice-President of the United States was lambasted for mis-spelling a word.
As a person who has always been a cacographer, I can …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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7/19/23
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We had a good meeting at Buffalo, on Sunday to kick off our “Common Sense Conservationist” membership drive. We had representatives from Owensville, Ellington, Farmington, Conway, …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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7/19/23
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O n Friday, June 30, Maries County Deputy Tiffany Johnson pulled over a Penske rental truck traveling south on Highway 63. She initiated the stop after witnessing the box truck travel off the right …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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7/12/23
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Along the Ozark streams, a favorite place of mine nowadays, as it gets hot and muggy, there comes the cry of a strange type of crow, a kind of caw that sounds like the black rascal is choking on …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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7/5/23
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P resident Joe Biden’s administration — in an attempt to improve Biden’s ratings — touted their economic policies last week. This has become known as Bidenomics. …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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7/5/23
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At Missouri Farm Bureau, we’ve talked extensively for more than two years about the global climate agenda and how activists continue to miss the big picture.
Every United Nations, European …
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By Garrett Hawkins, President, Missouri Farm Bureau
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7/5/23
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When I think of all the fascinating things I have seen in this natural world I have been exploring well over 40 years, one of the most fascinating is a little snake that my grandmother told me was a …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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6/28/23
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Y ou will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read. That’s a quote by author and motivational speaker Charlie …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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6/28/23
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More than one month has passed by since the end of the legislative session, and more than 50 bills await the signature of Gov. Mike Parson.
To date, the governor has acted on nine of the 62 …
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By State Rep. Bruce Sassmann, Missouri’s 61st District
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6/28/23
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I want to make people aware of what they will never hear anywhere else. I wrote about killing blacksnakes and black vultures and brown-headed cowbirds and I ran into a self-appointed wanna-be …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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6/21/23
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M y wife, Connie, and I were not very active in sports as we grew up. Our two boys participated in little league soccer and baseball. Our daughter was the opposite. She spent five days a week in the …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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6/21/23
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Talking with a friend about the debt ceiling negotiations, I mentioned that there were incentives for centrists in Congress to cobble together a deal. My friend said, incredulously, “Do we …
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By Matt Harris
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6/21/23
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