Resident opposes jail tax plan
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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.
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President Lincoln preserves the Union that celebrates July 4
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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.)
I know what I know because my dad took time to teach me
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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? Rob Kenney offers this kind of basic “dad advice,” and millions are tuning into his YouTube channel “Dad, How Do I?” to hear it. Kenney, who promises his subscribers he’ll do “my best to provide useful, practical content to many basic tasks that everyone should know how to do,” told Buzzfeed he began making YouTube videos after his 27-year-old daughter would call him “with countless ‘adulting’ questions.” “Every day she was calling me and … I thought, ‘What do other people do when they don’t have that resource?’ ” Kenney was painfully aware of what it was like to lack a fatherly resource.
Whose county is Ray County? Yours
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Responsible Ray Countians would address the question with the obvious answer. They would fix the roof.
Asinine Mo. now monitors prescriptions
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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.
Mo. ends tax exemption for online sellers
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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 businesses have paid all along.
Mother reveals reason for leaving Missouri, which shuns Medicare
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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. He and our son got out, while I stayed in the truck, where our baby girl was sleeping, and watched as he showed our son how to cast a bait net. The net flew up and spread like magic, wide and clear, against the sky, in fading sunshine like warm honey, and I remember thinking clearly, “I never want to live anywhere else.”
Big needs plague little Ray County
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There are many public needs that go unanswered because there is not enough tax income to go around. A few of Ray County’s needs include: • Placing more rock on roads; • Upgrading rock roads to asphalt; • Better pay for county employees who are trained in Ray County and then find other employment; • Adding deputies for road patrols and a second detective to solve crimes; • Building a storm-safe 911 building; • Replacing the aging metal shed being used as a jail in Henrietta; • Creating a justice center occupied by courtrooms, the sheriff’s office, the prosecutor’s office and juvenile justice; • Maintaining facilities; and • Updating, replacing and buying equipment, such as emergency radios.
Organizers of festivals deserve kudos
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Gatsby Day, not “Gatsby Days” this time around, brought out music lovers to downtown Excelsior Springs a couple of weeks back. The Mushroom Festival did the same thing for three days in downtown Richmond.
Do not confuse speculation for facts
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Whenever prominent people are pitted against each other in a court case, their friends tend to take sides. That is the situation regarding people involved in the case of former Superintendent Mike Aytes vs. the Richmond Board of Education.