Opinion

Body Most families with children across Ray and Clay counties began receiving money last week they might not have expected from Washington.

Body We must take the pains to bring all the facts to light before agreeing to a new jail tax. Sheriff Childers says he wants what’s best for Ray County.

Body Those ridicuous government regulations – so unnecessary and so intrusively and maliciously involved in undermining the privacy people deserve.

Body First, let’s say what this is not. It is not a call to defund the police and it is not stating Ray County does not need a secure and safe jail.

Body Fellow-citizens: I am very glad indeed to see you tonight, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called. (Cheers from the crowd.)

Body Need to learn how to unclog a shower drain, jump-start a car, shave your face without bleeding to death or successfully address dozens of other practical adult daily activities?

Body Responsible Ray Countians would address the question with the obvious answer. They would fix the roof.

Body Some asinine positions taken by most of the Republican-dominated Missouri General Assembly got resolved this year, when lawmakers agreed to collect online sales tax, raise the gas tax and approve a statewide prescription drug monitoring program.

Body After about a decade of wriggling and whining, with copious amounts of pretense sprinkled liberally upon nonsense, the Republican-dominated General Assembly – kicking and screaming to the last – finally agreed that online businesses should pay the same sales tax that mom-and-pop...

Body Once, my husband pulled the truck over at a pretty spot alongside the river, at that sweet moment when the golden afternoon slides slowly into evening.