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Things I never would have imagined 20 years ago:
• That outside of their primary media market, I could watch two of my favorite teams lose at the same time. This week, as I watched my …
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When Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote “Song of a Second April,” she must have been outside our door: “There rings a hammering all day, And shingles lie about the doors” (although …
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By Deborah Mitchell, Contributing Columnist
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5/1/21
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Sedalia is the Queen City of the chain restaurant. It seems every year a new establishment pops up — Fazoli’s, Steak ‘n’ Shake, Buffalo Wild Wings. But still we want more. …
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By Liz Schleicher, Contributing Columnist
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5/1/21
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Before I decided to become a Christian, I met people who told me that God had a plan for my life. It became a cliché, and I stopped hearing the phrase — people still used it, but to me, …
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By Steve Graff, Pastor of Antioch Fellowship
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4/30/21
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According to the 1920 federal census, 21,114 people lived in Sedalia. The census showed growth, as it had every census period since 1870, the first time Sedalia was counted as a separate entity. …
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By Rhonda Chalfant, Contributing Columnist
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4/28/21
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After a year of staying out of crowds and waiting for COVID-19 shots, the country is now seeing a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel. At the end of the tunnel, there are things waiting that we …
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By Jack Miller, Guest Columnist
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4/28/21
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It is said that all politics is local, and that stance also applies to many societal issues.
The trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin concluded Tuesday with guilty verdicts …
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By Bob Satnan, Contributing Columnist
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4/24/21
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This spring has been an extraordinary one for those who seek the lost and pursue justice for the grieving.
This week, the Democrat reported Pettis County Coroner Robert “Skip” …
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By Liz Schleicher, Contributing Columnist
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4/24/21
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I hate lawyer jokes designed to give people the worst impressions of lawyers as a whole, when such is not the case. I despise equally anything that might prejudice the listener against a group of …
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It’s been a while, but try as I might I can’t get President Biden’s press conference on March 25 out of my mind.
Not all of it was a disaster, but enough of it was to cause …
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When I was in high school, I was blessed to have been given a car to drive. My parents bought me an incredibly beautiful, 20-year-old Camaro (1967 model). Everyone who saw my car was impressed by its …
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By Rev. Chad McMullin, Pastor of First Christian Church
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4/23/21
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In 1920, according to the federal census, some 21,144 people called Sedalia home. The expansion of the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad shops in 1896 and the location of the division shops of the …
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By Rhonda Chalfant, Contributing Columnist
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4/21/21
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Sometimes things simply don’t go as expected.
Whether it is something we have planned for today, tomorrow, next week, next year or 10 years from now, we can find ourselves thrown off …
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By Stephanie Lefevers, Contributing Columnist
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4/21/21
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When the challenge is greater, the reward is sweeter.
Nicole Cooke, editor of both the Sedalia Democrat and the Warrensburg Star-Journal, has faced complication after hurdle after heartbreak this …
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It has been a year since we spent the first night in our new home. I’d be lying if I relied on the old bromide: “Time has just flown by!” It has not. Especially when we were in the …
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By Deborah Mitchell, Contributing Columnist
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4/17/21
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As I recall, readers and viewers began complaining about the liberal bias of the major news media sometime around the late 1960s.
Their complaints always were dismissed by the media as baseless. …
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A new year has again presented itself and another Easter has come and gone, and we continue to find ourselves marching forward with that passage of time not slowing down, not even for a major …
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By Rev. Chris Traffanstedt, Chaplain, Tyson Foods Inc.
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4/16/21
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Sedalia’s population figures continued to vary during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, depending on the source of the information. In November 1893, the Sedalia Democrat published an …
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By Rhonda Chalfant, Contributing Columnist
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4/14/21
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A couple of weeks ago, my 3-year-old granddaughter decided to talk back to her mother. It took me by surprise and without missing a beat I said, “McKenna Mae! I have never heard you speak to …
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By Stephanie Lefevers, Contributing Columnist
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4/14/21
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My mother said that bad things happened in threes. Somebody famous died? Watch out, because two more will soon follow. Lose something? Keep your things close, because two more items will disappear. …
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By Deborah Mitchell, Contributing Columnist
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4/12/21
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