Opinion

By: Pastor Elmer Schiefer, Family of Christ Lutheran Church In many casual conversations I have heard people say that they hope to go to heaven because they have been a good person. Yet they receive no argument because everybody recognizes that they are good people and do many good things. I have heard comments at

Letter to the Editor:     By: Wes Buffington   Since 1960, Congress has raised the debt limit some 78 times- 49 times by Republicans and 29 by Democrats. After he won the Electoral College vote in 2016, Donald Trump-the self-described “King of Debt”- said he would pay off the national debt while president. All

By: Frank Burkett    The shoe is on the other foot, as I am alluding to the misplaced sensitive secret files found in three different locations of our President. One on the Campus of Penn State, the Penn Biden Building, in which Joe received a million dollars to use his name. Two more batches at

(Letter to the Editor)   Google and Missouri FFA Foundation Partner to Enhance Tech in Agricultural Education Classrooms    Google is making a $50,000 donation to the Missouri FFA Foundation in support of their Learning by Doing Classroom grants program. The Missouri FFA Foundation plans to utilize the funds over the course of four years

  By: Frank Burkett My last opinion spread was about my thoughts on the liberally biased networks, cable TV also local newspapers, other than the Journal and Jefferson City News Tribune. I got fed up with reading, and listening to the gibberish from the Left. I decided, that maybe the public needed another Conservative’s point

By: John Grimaldi   Here’s a wake-up call: the numbers of babies killed in the womb in the U.S. since the Supreme Court legalized abortion 50 years ago has passed the 64.5 million mark– the equivalent of the population of France, the 22nd largest nation among the 233 countries on the planet. Last June, the

By Kristen Osenga (Opinion) Americans overwhelmingly believe that prescription drugs cost too much. But they’re divided about the source of the problem — and the potential solutions. Certain activists pin the blame on our legal system and accuse Big Pharma companies of using their armies of lawyers to construct “patent thickets” — supposedly a series

Dr. Glenn Mollette  (Letter to the Editor) Recently, in a Mexican restaurant in Houston, Texas, a patron shot and killed a man who was robbing other patrons. The robber was masked and brandishing what appeared to be a pistol. If the man who shot the robber is charged with murder for protecting himself and others

   By: Dr. Don Kuehle   The winter has been long. The days have been drawn-out & drab & dreary.  We’ve been kept inside for much too long. It’s too cold to go outside and too tiresome to stay inside. We have “cabin fever”. We’re battling a case of the “winter blahs”!