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T here are two types of people in this world, positive and negative. I have been a positive person with a sunny outlook on life for as long as I can remember. When someone asks me how I am doing, I …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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8/2/23
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Pam Hale was right three times today!
That’s for you, Darrell. We just wanted you to know she can be right sometimes.
Now back to the beginning. Here we are in the last half of …
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8/2/23
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To the Editor:
“Marijuana is not safe. It can kill you.”
It most certainly can. But then again, so can sharing our nation’s roadways with people who run red lights or …
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8/2/23
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I have been contacted by several readers about the Buffalo River float trip I am going to conduct on Saturday, Oct. 28. It is going to be an all day interpretive trip on the river celebrating the …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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8/2/23
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A merican history lists many great Native American Chiefs, including Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, Geronimo and Cochise. Long before these great leaders was one honored by colonial Americans …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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7/26/23
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In 1965, The Mamas & the Papas sang the words, “I’d be safe and warm/If I was in L.A.,” as part of their hit song “California Dreamin’.” Decades later, if the …
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By Garrett Hawkins, President, Missouri Farm Bureau
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7/26/23
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I want to address your article in the Maries County Advocate on July 12, concerning the lunch program at Maries R-1.
I see no problem with the small price increase on lunches. If the parents are …
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7/26/23
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Fifty years ago this summer I was working at Buffalo River as a naturalist for the National Park Service. It was a grand time and I loved it. In October you can help me celebrate those days and my …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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7/26/23
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M any of my readers may not be old enough, but I remember when the Vice-President of the United States was lambasted for mis-spelling a word.
As a person who has always been a cacographer, I can …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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7/19/23
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We had a good meeting at Buffalo, on Sunday to kick off our “Common Sense Conservationist” membership drive. We had representatives from Owensville, Ellington, Farmington, Conway, …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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7/19/23
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To the Editor:
I try to attend all the city meeting both regular and special called. What concerns me is the special meeting scheduled for June 26 that was canceled on the City of Belle FB page …
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7/19/23
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This week, the House took up the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to fund our nation’s military. As we’ve seen over the last couple years with Putin’s attack on …
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By Blaine Luetkemeyer, 3rd District Congressman
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7/19/23
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O n Friday, June 30, Maries County Deputy Tiffany Johnson pulled over a Penske rental truck traveling south on Highway 63. She initiated the stop after witnessing the box truck travel off the right …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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7/12/23
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Most Americans are aware that the nation is deeply divided, and that politics is intruding everywhere.
They seem to think that we have two equal opposing forces, as shown by razor-thin …
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By Jane Orient
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7/12/23
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Along the Ozark streams, a favorite place of mine nowadays, as it gets hot and muggy, there comes the cry of a strange type of crow, a kind of caw that sounds like the black rascal is choking on …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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7/5/23
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P resident Joe Biden’s administration — in an attempt to improve Biden’s ratings — touted their economic policies last week. This has become known as Bidenomics. …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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7/5/23
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At Missouri Farm Bureau, we’ve talked extensively for more than two years about the global climate agenda and how activists continue to miss the big picture.
Every United Nations, European …
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By Garrett Hawkins, President, Missouri Farm Bureau
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7/5/23
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When I think of all the fascinating things I have seen in this natural world I have been exploring well over 40 years, one of the most fascinating is a little snake that my grandmother told me was a …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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6/28/23
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Y ou will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read. That’s a quote by author and motivational speaker Charlie …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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6/28/23
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To the Editor:
Just had to drop in and say that article was one of the dumbest things I’ve read all year. It’s so dumb (the AMPLE use of false logical parallels is what first struck …
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6/28/23
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