Opinions
To the Editor,
This month, many Mountain View residents were charged late fees on their utility bills — not because we paid late, but because the bills did not reach us until the day before they were due.
According to our local post office (65548), the city’s February billing was...
Dear Editor,
As a personal object lesson, I will now share a tragic tale based on 2 Thessalonians 2:12 "That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
Many years ago, I had a great-aunt by a second marriage who had been born in the old...
Greetings Friends of the 155th District!
This week the legislature is spending time back in our districts rather than in Jefferson City, giving us the opportunity to meet with and represent the people of the 155th District closer to home. If you would like to meet with me while I’m in the...
What Happened This Week at the Capitol
This week at the Missouri State Capitol, the House of Representatives continued advancing legislation focused on government accountability, public safety, education transparency, and economic stability for Missouri families. Lawmakers debated and...
All through the fall hunting season, those of us who love to hunt waterfowl prayed for rain. The one thing you need for great duck hunting is plenty of water, and we just didn't have it. It is unbelievable that in surveying dozens of ponds in the Ozarks I never saw a mallard or even a gadwall....
Thumbs DOWN to the MSBA/Willow Schools forum: a school employee instead of an MSBA rep was the host with very few questions asked. I lost two hours this week: one to Daylight Savings, and one to this atrocity.
Thumbs UP to the way the community came together for girls basketball.
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It looks like we’ve turned the corner and spring is upon us! It’s time to start thinking about gardens and flower beds, rain, hatching chicks and plans for Easter. Here at the library we are busy putting plans together for our Collaborative Summer Reading Programs. We are planning to have...
Dear Constituents,
It seems like the past month of the legislative session has gone by way too fast as I have worked hard to represent our shared values in Jefferson City. Over the past month, I have stood up against compact agreements that cede our state’s sovereignty to unelected...
1 Corinthians 2:14 - But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned... There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body (1 Corinthians 15:44).
As I once again examine...
Proposition 1 asks voters to repeal the existing one-half cent capital improvement tax and replace it with a 1/2 cent sales tax. The original capital improvement tax restricted spending to road materials, culverts and contracted improvements for the county's Road and Bridge Department.
The...