1 No more daytime high temperatures below 45 degrees; 2 Lots of volunteers to sign up for testing water; 3 Answers to the questions raised by Gov. Nixon’s proposal; 4 Answers to your questions; 5 A strong turnout for auditions
THE ISSUE Gov. Nixon proposed merging the highway and water patrols
OUR VIEW Many questions need to be answered first
Be sure to look for our E-Board's take on the merger proposal in this spot Saturday morning.
The polls show most Americans want health care reform, but not the 2700 page behemoth that is being proposed and is going to be foisted on us by hook or by crook.
CHEERS To shoreline volunteers; To responsible parent; To Sunrise Beach P&Z members
JEERS To Alderman Susan Drummond
Stagnant state revenues, uncertain federal funding, rising employee benefit costs and the end of borrowed funds from the voter mandated Amendment 3 bonding program have caused the Missouri Department of Transportation to set a new direction for the next 5 years.
Missourians have told us our first priority should be taking care of the system we already have. We have listened.
Sometimes we may wonder why every time there is a funding shortfall, budget crunch or economic squeeze, the seemingly first “victim” is alway education.
There’s a very specific – if often unspoken – reason for this political maneuver.
Once or twice a week, we’ll send out a question of local importance or interest and ask E-board participants to respond with short answers, typically from 50-75 words on up to 200-250. In other words, the kind questions that will produce a “I think such and such” answer as opposed to an essay-type response.
Looking forward, we can celebrate Women’s History Month by taking action to pass the Healthy Families Act
The Supreme Court was dead wrong to allow corporations to make political contributions.
For me every day is St. Pat’s Day, being 100 percent Irish everyday, all day.
I do enjoy the parades but after that I stay home, make a great corned beef and cabbage dinner, throw back a couple of Irish ales and remember old aunts, uncles, grandparents, parents and brothers.
It was always one day when all differences were put aside and you would just party, sing and sling the Blarney.
Michael Donovan
1 A little ‘Luck of the Irish” weather; 2 Signs of construction on the Hammons project; 3 Gov. Nixon’s latest bad idea die a quiet death; 4 Good fishing despite TV show publicity about piranhas; 5 Shoreline cleanup volunteers not find as much
Just when you thought the publicity for the Lake of the Ozarks couldn’t get any worse – a national television show has just proclaimed that there could be flesh-eating fish in the water.
Forget about E. coli! There are piranha that “might be” infesting our waters.
I want to send a shout out to the planning and zoning board of Sunrise Beach.
Supporters of Missouri’s Community Health Centers, a.k.a Federally Qualified Health Centers, denounce draconian cuts proposed by the Missouri House Budget Committee.
THE QUESTION: What do you think of the court ruling in the Four Seasons-Osage Beach/Hammons TIF court case?
Cheers to Hammons decision; Osage Beach PD cooks; Clifton Luber
Jeers to the U.S. Census bureau desk jockey
The Missouri Alliance to Curb Problem Gambling is joining in the eighth National Problem Gambling Awareness Week scheduled from March 7-13.
Sen. Chuck Purgason’s “Consumption Tax” is still under consideration.
HB 1851 aims to derail investment in clean, renewable energy by designating nuclear power as a “renewable” source under Prop C.
HB1851 dramatically undermines the intent of the RES and the voters who wished to diversify Missouri’s electric grid away from expensive and dirty power and toward clean, underutilized sources, like wind and solar.
