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The United States of America will be 245 years old this Fourth of July. Many men and women have sacrificed much including their lives just to give us the freedoms we enjoy today. In 1776, the …
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By Jonathan Wallenbeck, Associate Pastor, Calvary Baptist Church of Sedalia
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7/1/22
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What a whirlwind of a week surrounding the Supreme Court!
As of this writing, we have seen the SCOTUS overturn Roe v. Wade and rule in favor of Joseph Kennedy in Kennedy v. Bremerton School …
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By Stephanie Lefevers, Contributing Columnist
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6/29/22
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On Friday, the Supreme Court made it official — Roe v. Wade has been overturned, there’s no constitutional right to abortion.
Actually, there never was, for Roe was based on one of …
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By Doug Kneibert, Contributing Columnist
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6/29/22
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Last week’s column identified the National Register of Historic Places as a list of historic buildings, structures, sites, and objects that have significance in national, state, or local …
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By Rhonda Chalfant, Contributing Columnist
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6/29/22
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As I work through my final days as superintendent of Sedalia School District 200, I have been focused on what is ahead and how our community can help forge a positive path for our students, staff and …
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By Steve Triplett, Guest Columnist
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6/25/22
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My paternal grandmother would have been 92 this week.
She was a beautiful old woman with curly white hair, piercing blue eyes, and a sly, puckering smile that she passed on to her sons and …
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By Liz Schleicher, Contributing Columnist
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6/24/22
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What a week.
I’m still watching the January 6 hearings, and I am still sad – and angry – about what I am hearing, and not just because the insurrection happened. I am sad …
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By Deborah Mitchell, Contributing Columnist
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6/24/22
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Is there a more important question in life than how to live purposefully? Everyone wants their life to matter, but how can we know that we’ve lived purposefully? What makes a life well lived?
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By Pastor Jeremiah Greever
Founders Midwest Committee Co-Chair
Senior Pastor First Baptist Church of Sedalia
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6/23/22
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On Wednesday the 8th of June, my wife and I, along with her sister and our brother-in-law, made what had always been an annual visit to her hometown of Willow Springs, Missouri.
The trip was …
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By Jack Miller
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6/21/22
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I’m not perfect. In fact, I’m far from it.
Last week I posted this to my Facebook page: “I thought that I was a good person, but the way that I react when people drive slowly in …
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By Stephanie Lefevers, Contributing Columnist
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6/21/22
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The terms “landmark” and “historic site” and “listed on the National Register” are often used without a clear understanding of what each of these terms means and …
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By Rhonda Chalfant, Contributing Columnist
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6/21/22
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In October, I wrote a column titled “Feeling the burnout, big time.” It’s not uncommon for me to get feedback about some of the columns I write, but by far, that one received the …
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By Nicole Cooke, ncooke@sedaliademocrat.com
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6/20/22
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“If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.”
I grew up hearing that cliché. It was a staple of the platitudes told to children in the …
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The Watergate hearings in the 1970s were intriguing, but the Jan. 6 Committee hearings are mesmerizing. Behind-the-scene intrigue, cat fights in the Oval Office, texts designed as subterfuge, …
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By Deborah Mitchell, Contributing Columnist
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6/20/22
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For reasons I won’t go into, I’m coming late to the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, which sometimes happens in the column-writing business.
The horrible murder of 21 people — …
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By Doug Kneibert, Contributing Columnist
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6/20/22
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Somewhere around late December, some of us might start thinking of our New Year’s resolutions. Some of us may take this to our spiritual place and ask the Lord what he would have us do in the …
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By Fr. Joe Corel, St. Vincent de Paul Parish
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6/20/22
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Laws during the 19th century generally favored a husband over his wife, usually granting him title to any land she brought into the marriage and giving him control over any money she might have had. …
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By Rhonda Chalfant, Contributing Columnist
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6/20/22
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I ran across a quote last week that went like this:
“The problem is people really believe that they follow some strong moral compass, but in reality, they are just trying to fit in with …
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By Stephanie Lefevers, Contributing Columnist
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6/20/22
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When I first took over the editor’s office in 2017, I mentioned to former Editor Bob Satnan, then a contributing columnist on this very page each week, that I was thinking about writing columns …
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By Nicole Cooke, ncooke@sedaliademocrat.com
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6/10/22
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Years after my father died, I began to understand many of the things that impeded our having, at least, a collegial relationship. Much had happened during my teens and college years to affect our …
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