December 5, 2023
Editor, I’d like to response to yet ANOTHER “paid” letter to the editor last week by Robin Fugate. At 28:31 minutes into my recording of the September 20th meeting, she said: “Is there anybody in this group that wants to talk to Norma Owens from Iron County that knows all about Mr. Nichols.” I went
I attended my first board meeting of the hospital. As far as I’m concerned, it was nothing more than a joke. On member came in late, they didn’t seem to know what they were doing, was in a foul mood and immediately went in attack mode on Harold Fugate. They hide business from him, meet
Editor, Recently retired University of Iowa research engineer, Dr. Chris Jones, author of “The Swine Republic, Struggles with the Truth About Agriculture and Water Quality,” accepted an invitation to speak this Friday, Nov. 17, at the Judy Thompson Conference Center on the Drury University Campus, 609 Bob Barker Blvd, Springfield. Doors open at 5 p.m.;
Editor, Since I wrote my first letter to the editor, followed by another one 2 weeks later, not one person from the CCMH board has been able to refute any data or facts that were in my letters. So, I’m going to provide the people of the county some more information. My husband, Harold Fugate,
Editor: My name is Angie McWilliams. I am the Business Office and Registration Manager at Cedar County Memorial Hospital. I will have you a little background. I was born at CCMH, I graduated from El Dorado Springs High School, I married a hometown boy and have lived there my entire life. I came to work
I would like to take a moment to share my experiences at CCMH. I started back with CCMH in December of 2022. Coming from a larger facility I immediately saw positive differences. Everyone at CCMH made me feel welcome, including administration. However, when I came on a provider I worked with , who I thought
Editor: My name is Chris Roe. I have been a Cedar County Resident my entire life. I was Born and raised in El Dorado Springs to a mother and father who were also Lifelong Cedar County Residents. As a family we all consider CCMH our Family Hospital. I have been employed with CCMH for a
Editor, In recent years, our friends at Renew Missouri have been actively advocating for rural electric cooperatives (RECs) to transition from coal-fired power plants burdened with debt, towards more economic and environmentally friendly local energy sources. RECs can now take advantage of new federal programs to do this without undue financial burden to themselves or
Editor, Members of the bipartisan Congressional Animal Protection Caucus should support a massive increase in federal funding for cultivated-meat research. For readers who aren’t familiar with the term, cultivated meat is grown from livestock cells, without slaughter. No other policy, with a reasonable shot of becoming law, has the potential to reduce more animal suffering
Editor, Our beloved Cedar County Memorial Hospital (CCMH) is in grave danger under the leadership of its current CEO, Mr. Terry Nichols. Some of the current Board members are ignoring serious warnings from at least two separate CEOs who took over for Mr. Nichols before he came to CCMH that he has “no business being
