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As Missouri legislators prepare for the 2024 legislative session, they should consider how many of their major 2023 accomplishments received limited public attention.
The 2023 legislative …
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By Phill Brooks, Contributing Columnist
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10/11/23
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There is a special place I visit to bow-hunt and get away from people and this awful world. It is on a lake and I get there by boat. I know that bass fishing is often very good on the nearby lake …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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10/11/23
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E ven though Missouri is landlocked with no access to the ocean, I was fascinated with sailing ships as a young boy. My favorite models were not of cars, but of clippers (a fast sailing ship).
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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10/11/23
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I t was a fellow journalist, short-story writer, and novelist Rudyard Kipling — the author of “The Jungle Book” — who is credited with being the originator of the phrase …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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10/4/23
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The Missouri State Fair, held from Aug. 10 to Aug. 20, 2023, welcomed nearly 350,000 visitors this year. This marks an approximate two-and-a-half percent increase from the previous year’s …
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By State Rep. Bruce Sassmann, Missouri’s 61st District
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10/4/23
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A colossal battle over private property rights is underway in the Heartland, fueled by your tax dollars. If your farm, ranch, or little piece of paradise is relatively flat, chances are the property …
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BY Dan Engemann, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Missouri Farm Bureau
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10/4/23
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To the Editor:
We are all watching the steady decline of this country.
A few are trying to save it, many pay no attention, and several upper names in both major parties steadily lie to us …
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10/4/23
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Fisheries biologists started creating hybrid fish years ago. It hasn’t always worked out the way they thought it would. The cross of walleyes and saugers, produce something they called a …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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10/4/23
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I was on Lake Wappapello this past week with an old-days college roommate, Darrell Hamby, of Patterson. We were fishing for crappie and reliving old times. That lake is something and though there …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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9/27/23
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Empathy — not to be confused with sympathy — is the capacity to understand another person’s point of view and, by extension, their suffering. According to thoughtco.com, …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/27/23
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While state legislators were in Jefferson City for the annual veto session on Sept. 13, Missouri Speaker of the House Dean Plocher appointed me as Trustee to the Missouri Humanities Council Trust …
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By State Rep. Bruce Sassmann, Missouri’s 61st District
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9/27/23
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What would your perfect job look like?
You might choose to be your own boss, with space to creatively express yourself and feel fulfilled by your work. Maybe you would want day-to-day novelty, …
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By Gary Ritter, For the Missouri Independent
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9/27/23
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Elvis Presley fanatics only need to take a short one-day journey to Graceland in Memphis, Tenn., to realize their dreams.
For a newspaperman/printer like myself, the ultimate pilgrimage is not …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/20/23
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With more than 60 bills finally signed into law and taking effect last month, the Missouri General Assembly returned to the Missouri State Capitol on Sept. 13 for the annual veto session.
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By State Rep. Bruce Sassmann, Missouri’s 61st District
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9/20/23
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People need to know about new diseases that result from outdoor living. One of them is known as the ‘Alpha-gal’ syndrome, a sometimes fatal disease people get from the spotted wood tick …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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9/20/23
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More than 60 bills passed through the Missouri General Assembly this year, and after receiving the signature from Missouri Governor Mike Parson, those bills have now become law, effective Aug. 28.
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By State Rep. Bruce Sassmann, Missouri’s 61st District
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9/13/23
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When being discharged from the hospital after a severe illness or injury, most seniors prefer to return home and receive home healthcare.
However, Medicare’s ongoing cuts to the home …
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By Carol Hudspeth
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9/13/23
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COLUMBIA — During drought, plants and livestock suffer.
So do farmers. Life in rural America can be rough, especially when weather-related events such as drought and flood put crops and …
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From University Extension
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9/13/23
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After all those years of joking about being a grizzled old veteran hunter, I now are one and it ain’t no joking matter!
I hunted blue-winged teal during that very first special teal …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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9/13/23
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I’m not sure how much work 80-year-old President Joe Biden gets done — with more downtime than any of our previous commanders in chief — but his administration has been working …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/6/23
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