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A Farm Bureau Fellowship meeting was held on April 13 at Shelbina. Those from Linn County who attended were Marc and Brooke Zell, Philip and Heather Martin, Terrill and Dana Lane, Steve and Jill Hardy and Donald Herring.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a St. Louis-based natural gas company’s appeal of a lower court’s decision that could close a pipeline that runs through parts of Illinois and Missouri.

The Missouri Sunshine Law brings transparency and fairness to all aspects of government, and it is facing a threat from Jefferson City. Missouri was one of the earliest advocates for opening meetings and records to the people. Our current Governor is supporting legislation that would amend Missouri's Sunshine Law. As reported by the Missouri Independent the governor's office has stated that "These changes benefit political subdivisions, the legislature and state government." These changes would not benefit the citizens of Livingston County.

In response to Gov. Parson’s veto to additional funding for providers of Consumer Directed Services (CDS), Access II is mobilizing the community to fight back and demand additional funding. Access II is joining Centers for Independent Living and advocates across the state to campaign for a CDS increase.

Peace on Earth and goodwill to men this time of year seems increasingly absent in diverse places. In America the noble objective seems to have long ago left the U.S. Capitol where too many Members of Congress are as divided and angry at each other as ever.

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. – If you spend even a small amount of time scanning social media or watching cable news, the world still seems like a pretty grim place.

If Joe Biden takes office, there’ll be a “depression the likes of which you’ve never seen,” Donald Trump warned a month before he lost the 2020 presidential election. It didn’t happen.

WASHINGTON – December 2021 is obviously not shaping up as President Joe Biden had planned. Last February, Biden told a CNN town hall that “by next Christmas, I think we’ll be in a very different circumstance, God willing, than we are today.

A cruise ship with 48 cases of COVID on board docked in Miami Saturday, and all we can think is: Oh no, not again. Those first terrible months of the pandemic in 2020 are still burned into our memory, when cruise ships became such breeding grounds for infection that they became virtual voyages of the damned and many ports refused to accept them.

If you still haven’t gotten a holiday gift for someone – or anyone over the age of 12, for that matter – you’ve come to the right place. As an economist, I can assure you that not only have you done the responsible, even thoughtful, thing. It may also not be too late to make the right decision.