During the on-going coronavirus pandemic, pets have become the therapeutic solution for lack of companionship and restricted personal interact…
They arrive in late summer, lurking within paper bags and tattered cardboard boxes. It’s an old menace — one that finds its way to the surface…
This lady’s getting it done!
Input from producers and a review of the market led the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to add to and expand the list of commodities eli…
On April 28, 1999, a mere eight days after the Columbine shooting, shock rocker Marilyn Manson was scheduled to perform in Iowa City. Manson’s…
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The mainstream media has a dilemma. While they want to inform the American people about the progress on finding a vaccine for the coronavirus,…
Might be money well spent…at the proper time
When you have more than one child, it becomes difficult to remember their names. Oh, sure, you know who’s who. And it is easy to pick them out…
There are many sayings about revolutions, but my favorite is simply, “Revolutions are messy.” This seems to sum up the majority of the world’s…
In late July, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a report on the difference between the prices of live cattle and processed meat. To …
Are you a part of your local farmers market, as a customer, vendor, manager, cheerleader, or funder? Markets carry great tradition, and whatev…
It was legendary author Charles Dickens who penned the immortal words, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Those words capt…
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The ability to defend your home, your family, and your property is a right that is absolutely protected here in Missouri. It’s also a right th…
Sunday afternoon drives were torture for my brothers and me. As desperate as we were to get away from the familiar routes of our daily lives—s…
People need to hear success stories
“Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket.” This saying goes at least as far back as Don Quixote, written in 1615, and is probably much older.…
Recently, rural Americans have missed out on many services usually offered in their communities.
The 2020 Olympic games have been postponed, if they had been held the opening ceremony would have taken place this Friday. With that in mind I…
Gov. Mike Parson has given the final approval and signed into law HB 1330 which will allow several projects to move forward, particularly two …
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As a fourth-generation family farm owner myself, I take special pride in representing and fighting for the thousands of farming families which…
When I was a young, married woman and we were just getting started, we lived in the upstairs apartment at the old LePere family home on West L…
My brothers decided to have their friend, John Graham, over to spend the night. I was 12 or 13, and he was my first crush. They spent all afte…
Examining the debt snowball