Opinion

This Day is under-celebrated

Saturday, September 17 is Constitution Day and I’m betting we all celebrate in different ways, if at all, and each of those will be protected by the United States Constitution

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Wrong Way Returns

On the way to our Labor Day weekend campout in Steelville, Missouri, our cursed generator, the bane of my existence, performed flawlessly for the first time since we purchased our

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Curmudgeon vacation

After she returned home from work last Friday, my wife informed me that she has accrued quite a bit of vacation time and that we should take a trip somewhere.

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Leftovers for end of August

We’ve go a whole bunch of leftovers from earlier this month: What a great weekend of rodeo, seeing friends and watching our community continue to grow. That’s right, while you’re

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Katy Trail Diplomacy

Katy Trail Diplomacy I made a new friend the other day: A black, French, Muslim woman who recently arrived from Paris. (That sound you just heard was Donald Trump’s head

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Easy answer not best solution

Easy answer not best solution In the classic Sci-Fi novel “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” an alien visiting Earth names himself Ford Perfect – based on the assumption that

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Naughton Fatigue Syndrome

Naughton Fatigue Syndrome by Travis Naughton Summer in Southern Boone County marks a reprieve from school for educators and students. It is also a chance for educators, students, and the

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Armchair Olympic Gold

by Travis Naughton While watching coverage of the Rio Olympics, I couldn’t help but feel a little nostalgic about my own glorious Olympic moment that occurred twenty years ago. No,

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