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.
Looking forward, we can celebrate Women’s History Month by taking action to pass the Healthy Families Act
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.
Vitamin D is known as the sunshine vitamin
Recipe of the Week: Breakfast Smoothies
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.
Every 15 minutes, 3 million to 5 million coins are being inserted into vending machines in the United States.
Recipe of the Week: Triple Chocolate Cookies
Access Missouri is about students, not about institutions. This important fact is overlooked by politicians who seek to dismantle the successful need-based financial aid program that has opened the doors of Missouri’s colleges and universities to tens of thousands of students from working and lower-income Missouri families.
We can place signs in restaurants, run newspaper ads, billboard messages, radio and television commercials, talk to the kids in our schools and use word of mouth to get the message out - “Please enjoy the lake, but please make sure those that follow you enjoy it as well by picking up your trash.” This message should permeate throughout the lake area.
In preparation for two recent back-to-back blizzards, residents in the Washington, D.C., area emptied the shelves of neighborhood grocery stores. Notwithstanding the pre-blizzard panic buying, what’s interesting is that no one was freaking out about whether the stores would be adequately stocked after the blizzards.
A few simple tweaks to your diet may be enough to lower your cholesterol
Recipe of the Week: Cranberry Walnut Oatmeal
Rarely does a story make my jaw drop any more, but every once in a while I hear about some thing that makes me think – “Really? Did they really just do that?”
Such was the case for me when a group of Camdenton citizens, led by the director of the Lake Area American Red Cross Director Patti Triggs, objected to a proposed 14-unit apartment building that would house mentally and developmentally disabled adults in the lake area.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has a big task ahead of him. He has to withdraw most of the $2.2 trillion the Fed created and pumped into the banking system since 2007 before a monster inflation strikes and robs of us our purchasing power. But he has do it without sending the economy back into a recession in the process.
Potassium counteracts the effect that sodium has on raising blood pressure.
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Recipe of the week: Quick Roast Chicken and Root Vegetables
10 easy ways to load up on healthy Omega-3 fats
Recipe of the Week: Hot and wild salmon
In one form or another, our farmers and ranchers contribute to the quality of life we enjoy, so join Camden County Farm Bureau and the Missouri Farm Bureau in celebrating “Thank a Farmer Week.” Feb. 7-13.
Wouldn't it be nice if Missouri could magically find the money needed to pay for services people need and to make the sort of investments that help build a prosperous future?
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency strengthened its National Ambient Air Quality Standard for lead in response to our lawsuit.
Most people can agree that the lake’s image needs to be repaired and protected - that is the tie that binds.
