BLUE SPRINGS POLICE REPORTS
Thursday, Dec. 9 Missing person • 9:38 p.m., 3700 block of S.W.
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INDEPENDENCE POLICE REPORTS
Tuesday, Dec. 7 Arrest • 3:15 a.m., Platte County Jail • 7:29 a.m., 2300 block of S.
JACKSON COUNTY RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS – BLUE SPRINGS
The Jackson County Environmental Health Division inspects sites where food is served outside independence and Kansas City. Recent inspection results in Blue Springs are as follows: Colonial Kitchen: 27610 S.E.
LOCAL COVID-19 TESTING SITES
University Health (formerly Truman Medical Centers/University Health): Regular testing hours are weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon. Testing is available at both sites – the Lakewood campus at 7900 Lee’s Summit Road, Kansas City, and the Hospital Hill site at 2211 Charlotte, Kansas City.
Patrol completes investigation of Post-Dispatch
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri State Highway Patrol has completed an investigation of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that began after a journalist exposed a state database flaw.
Variant’s rapid spread puts state on track for surge
Missouri’s two largest counties will continue their efforts to overturn a court ruling that severely limits the powers of local health departments at the same time health officials warn the omicron variant will bring thousands of new COVID-19 cases.
Look back, look ahead, and keep going
I thought for this last column of the year I would bring you a 2021 retrospective – a recap of our lives over the past 12 months. However, in doing a bit of research, I discovered that the “top” headlines for this year were so damned depressing I would save you a column’s worth of angst and save this weighty tome to a retrospective from my point of view to give a more light-hearted approach to produce, I hope, and in order, a giggle, a smirk and maybe a Tinkerbell-fairy-dust modicum of hope.
States poised to act on abortion rights
MONTPELIER, Vt. – Early in the new year, the Vermont House of Representatives is due to begin debate on an amendment that would enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution and send the question to voters in the fall.
Lawsuit shaky for workers in Ky.
Legal experts, including leading Kentucky trial and employment lawyers, say it will be virtually impossible for workers injured by a tornado at a Mayfield, Ky., candle factory to win their lawsuit against the company after they say they weren’t allowed to leave.
Hold on to hope as we walk through these tough times
As I sat down to write my final article of 2021, I began to put together a list of the blessings I personally have experienced in the past year and to invite you to do the same. However, the more I wrote, the more disingenuous it began to feel. Not because I am ungrateful for my many blessings – I certainly am not that – but because celebrating wins during a time of such hardship and suffering for so many simply didn’t feel right to me.