Opinion

By: Ellen Kesterson As many people know, I was thrown into the presidency of the school board at Southern Boone during some challenging times for our district. The board was

By: Frank Burkett Here is a beef that some employees will pick up on right away. The Pandemic has brought about work place discrimination. In a way some employees working

By: Travis Naughton I was born in Kirksville, Missouri, but lived in the small towns of Canton, Kahoka, and La Plata, Missouri, before starting kindergarten in Clarinda, Iowa. In first

By: Frank Burkett I have misgivings about mascots and names of NFL, MLB teams, college and high school teams that offend. Offend enough to cause attorneys to get into the

By: Travis Naughton There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who value the freedom of speech and those who are threatened by it. The longest running war

By: Frank Burkett Just recently a reminder came to my attention. I am old enough to remember that time in history, 62 years ago, September 29, 1959. I will give

By: Travis Naughton In the 1993 hit comedy “Groundhog Day”, Bill Murray plays TV weatherman Phil Connors, a cynic who becomes trapped in a time loop, doomed to repeat February

By: Frank Burkett Because of the invasion, by the Soviet Union of Afghanistan in 1979, Jimmy Carter had the boldness to boycott the summer Olympics of 1980, to be held

By: Luke Goeres I believe social media can be a powerful tool at becoming a more evolved, efficient, and bipartisan communication based approach to help close the large divide we

By: Travis Naughton For the second time this school year, the Southern Boone County School District’s Board of Education voted to discard a previously agreed upon temporary mask mandate just