I don’t know about you all, but I’m over this winter weather. I’m ready for some sunshine and warmer temperatures. I want to plant some flowers and have my morning coffee on the front porch.
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By Sherry Broyles
Guest Columnist
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2/7/25
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President Donald Trump has declared war on woke in the federal government. One of his first targets was the lie of transgenderism. His executive order opens as follows:
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By Doug Kneibert
Contributing Columnist
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2/6/25
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Apparently, I can’t cross my fingers properly.
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By Deborah Mitchell
Contributing Columnist
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2/6/25
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The other day I shared a Facebook meme from a homemaking blog that said, “Minimize the amount of news that you are exposed to. We ought to guard the quiet of our minds, much like we guard the peace of little children. We do not need to know everything. Our children need not worry about the troubles in life. Quiet news and peaceful happenings bring cheer. Let us bring cheer to our homes and not spread distressing troubles.” - Mrs. White, “The Legacy of Home Blog.”
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By Liz Schleicher
Contributing Columnist
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2/6/25
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Like many other Missourians, I have been a Kansas City Chief’s fan from the time they came to Missouri from Texas.
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By Jack Miller
Contributing Columnist
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2/3/25
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The first backyard skirmish between Charlie and Pete happened five years ago on a night with a full moon. Charlie is our beloved beagle mutt who is now 14 years old and missing a few teeth. Pete is a trespassing possum who’s been trying to drive Charlie crazy for years.
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By Gwen Rockwood
Syndicated Columnist
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2/3/25
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The last two days felt like spring, with temperatures in the 60s, and I hoped that spring would soon be on the way.
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By Faith Bemiss-McKinney
Contributing Columnist
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2/3/25
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All eighth-grade students in Missouri must pass a test on the Constitution.
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By Deborah Mitchell
Contributing Columnist
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1/30/25
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From out of nowhere, a small darting light and then a fireball.
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By Clay Wirestone
Guest Columnist
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1/30/25
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I love birds. It may have begun when we lived in a small farm-type house near the city limits many years ago.
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By Faith Bemiss-McKinney
Contributing Columnist
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1/30/25
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Words are hard – much harder than they used to be. It's a symptom of middle age I hadn't heard about until it started happening to me. A few aches and pains? Sure. Crow's-feet and laugh lines? Okay, fine.
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By Gwen Rockwood
Syndicated Columnist
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1/27/25
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When the subject of cars we have owned though the years comes up in a conversation I have to admit that most of the ones I have owned were just barely worthy of that designation. There were only a few cars that I owned that someone said “Boy I wish I owned that car.”
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By Jack Miller
Contributing Columnist
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1/27/25
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1 Corinthians 12:12 “Just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.”
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By the Rev. Anne Meredith Kyle
Christ-Trinity Lutheran and Calvary Episcopal Churches
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1/24/25
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Life with Donald Trump in the White House has started, and we notice that Project 2025, the one he knew nothing about, never heard of, begins: The President issued several executive orders on Tuesday, many of which are from Project 2025’s playbook. Additionally, some important governmental agencies are getting directives to stop their work – at least for a while.
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By Deborah Mitchell
Contributing Columnist
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1/23/25
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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a small advisory group appointed by President Donald Trump and headed by Elon Musk, will make recommendations for restructuring the federal government to make it more efficient and less costly. It’s about time.
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By Doug Kneibert
Contributing Columnist
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1/23/25
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The press, so critical to our democratic process, is facing threats on multiple fronts — from the growing influence of social media to the frontal and legal attacks coming from elected officials and others with power.
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By Janice Ellis
Guest Columnist
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1/23/25
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When I was middle school age, I drifted off to sleep every night with my transistor radio playing underneath my pillow. As a result, the hit tunes of the 1960s nurtured a love of pop music that would follow me through my teenage years and beyond.Even today, if the part of my brain where music lives were a pie chart, the classical rock of that time would make up the biggest piece.
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By Debbie Noland
Guest Columnist
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1/23/25
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Once every five years or so, we get a new television. Sometimes it's because we actually need one – like that summer when a lightning strike electrocuted several of our appliances. But most of the time, it's because Tom starts reading about the incredible picture quality on the newest TV screens, and he just can't stand it anymore. He needs to see it for himself.
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By Gwen Rockwood
Syndicated Columnist
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1/20/25
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I. “MacD” DeMuth’s pamphlet “A Feast of Cold Facts” announced its purpose on the cover. It was written “as a review for 1898-99 of the business and general advantages of Central Missouri, Pettis County, and Sedalia, MO.”
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By Rhonda Chalfant
Contributing Columnist
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1/20/25
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Watching old movies or listening to old songs on the radio are two things that always brings back old memories and feelings of the past to me. Movies with old ships like the ones I served on or a song that was popular when I was young will take me back for a little while to those younger days.
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By Jack Miller
Contributing Columnist
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1/20/25
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