Letters to the Editor

After the Farm Bureau annual meeting Friday night, I asked Kalena Kenney for help summarizing the speech she gave. What I got in an email Monday morning was a big surprise. It was Kalena’s entire speech. From my front row table sitting with Pete and Murnie Fast, I never saw Kalena look at any notes.

Editor: It is not even funny that one cannot escape politics. It is in the workforce, entertainment, sports, churches, and just about everywhere else. One cannot even relax watching football as several players will kneel or sit out the “Star-Spangled Banner” in protest. Even the Miss America Pageant has become involved with the contestants being

Editor: The Missouri Department of Conservation has a “Tiger by The Tail” and don’t know what to do with it. They act like the little boy who is walking past the graveyard and is whistling to himself in order to keep his courage up and hope everything will be all right. Chronic Wasting Disease is

Editor: George Orwell once wrote, “If liberty means anything at all, it means to tell people what they do not want to hear.” Dissent is essential to allow all points of view to be given and considered. Freedom of speech is central to a free society. Suppression is to limit or control free speech. There

Editor: If you missed the FUN of this past Thursday evening at the old El Dorado Drive-In Theater, I hope you plan RIGHT NOW to make the next event. Reminiscent of the theater’s early days, there were cars, lawn chairs and a great experience enjoying a super game with splendid weather as a bonus to

Editor: The mudstream media was having a heyday talking about Melania Trump’s shoes while the Trumps were loading on a plane to Texas, at a time when Texas was being devastated by Hurricane Harvey. I guess they didn’t have anything better to do. I just feel this time could have been better used assisting the

Editor: I read all three letters to the editor with interest last week. I even agree to all of them to some extent. However, I found a few things lacking in two of them. In the letter from the Ministerial Alliance, I totally agree that one must still love all people regardless of color, sex

Editor: When is hatred right?  We can hate sin; We can hate the devil, but is it ever correct for a Christian to hate other people?  The hatred displayed in Charlottesville, VA, by the KKK, the Neo-Nazis, the white supremacists would surely be condemned by our Lord.  Some caucasians were advocating to  take our country

Editor: I realized only to well that Barack Obama is no longer President, thank God. But does he know this? There is word that even though he is out of office he is maintaining a shadow government to keep President Trump from undoing anything that he has accomplished is his eight years in the office.

Editor: Everyone or their ancestors came here from some place else. They came here because they thought that it would be better here than there. The urge to go where things will be better may be the most powerful of all human urges. Nothing, no wall, no ocean, no mountain range has been an effective