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In Sevier County Tenn., the 1990 drop out rate for the public school was 35 percent. This created a lot of adults who could not read or write or hold any but the simplest jobs. One person stepped up …
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By Paul Hamby
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9/2/26
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When I was growing up, smoking was as normal as breathing. We thought it meant we were mature and worldly, and it was a given that we would all smoke someday.
My brother, Jim, always the …
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By Robin Garrison Leach
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9/2/26
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Several new Missouri laws taking effect by the end of August are bringing changes to health care access, insurance coverage, pharmacy services, maternal health, disability services, and protections …
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by Bruce Sassmann , State Representative District 61
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9/2/26
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O ne thing that makes the United States of America unique is that it is made up of 50 individual states. These states share many similarities with how they are run, but no two are identical.
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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8/26/26
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My daughter climbed the steps of the school bus on the first day of kindergarten, her tiny legs stretching to meet each stair. She plopped down on a bench facing our home and glanced out the window.
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By Robin Garrison Leach
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8/26/26
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I have been thinking a lot about how important insects are to the circle of life. My wife and her sister Debi are doing their part by trying to help Monarch butterflies thrive and survive in the …
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by DOUG WOJCIESZAK
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8/26/26
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Today I love to watch both gray and fox squirrels from my porch, and there is one tree just a ways from my office where baby gray squirrels are born every year. They emerge from the hole in the early …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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8/25/26
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It took 9 years to get the PDMP, Prescription Drug Monitoring Program passed in Missouri. PDMP is a program where your confidential prescription medication information is shared through a network of …
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By Paul Hamby
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8/25/26
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A t a funeral I attended a couple of years ago, the priest commented in his homily that “simple ordinary goodness does not make the news.” I’m here to set the record straight.
In today’s …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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8/19/26
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In July, President Trump made an address to the nation re-asserting that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. He said he had new evidence that he released on July 17 proving this. His smoking …
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By Paul Hamby
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8/19/26
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They arrive in late summer, lurking within paper bags and tattered cardboard boxes. It’s an old menace — one that finds its way to the surface of our hungry society each summer. We bring it on …
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By Robin Garrison Leach
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8/19/26
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May 21, 2026, is the day I became a certified biology teacher in Missouri, and I love my job.
I wish others would join me.
Sadly, the pathway to teacher licensure is a frustrating waste of …
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by DOUG WOJCIESZAK
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8/19/26
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The crawdad, or crayfish, is an unusual creature, always looking back where he has been, and going where his isn’t looking. Quite often where he has been appears quite safe and there looms a …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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8/12/26
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T he term “big tent” to describe the Democrat Party has been around for as long as I can remember, but it gained significant traction in the 1980s and 1990s. Political analysts and party leaders, …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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8/12/26
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I am a member of an exclusive group of humans. Though small in number-only 15% of the world’s population are members — we have infiltrated every arena of life and learned to adapt to the …
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By Robin Garrison Leach
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8/12/26
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My maternal grandparents, Bert and Hilda McNew, had a little farm out southeast of Houston, Missouri a few miles. I was born in their old farmhouse. They were wonderful people whom I dearly loved.
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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8/11/26
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It seems we need to explain some things for those who don’t understand, lie, or jump to conclusions.
Several posts are making the rounds on Facebook attacking the Maries County Advocate. Let …
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by Jacob warden
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8/10/26
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B y the time you read this column, I — on Aug. 4, along with my immediate family, and many of you — will have driven to my polling location, presented my drivers license to the poll worker, …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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8/10/26
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I was next in line at the grocery checkout. The woman in front of me was ready to pay; she fumbled her hand inside her purse and withdrew a worn, black checkbook cover.
She set it atop the tiny …
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By Robin Garrison Leach
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8/10/26
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In 1997, a landmark federal case determined that the federal government cannot force state and local governments to enforce federal laws. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision from 1997 in …
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by Garrett Hawkins, President of Missouri Farm Bureau
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8/10/26
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