After an Independence, Missouri, police officer was shot and killed in September, state law enforcement initially refused to accept routine federal assistance in tracing the murder weapon. A Missouri state trooper released a federal fugitive after a traffic stop. The Missouri state crime lab is refusing to process evidence to help in federal firearms prosecutions.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
There’s something about a brand new year that makes me want to wipe the slate clean, so to speak – clean house, clean diet, clean body, mind and soul – and start fresh all over again. Not that I’ll ever do all of that.
The good people at Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan for decades have tried to keep us on the straight and narrow because someone should at least try.
The year 2021 was another challenging year with the pandemic raging on beyond what most optimistically believed with vaccines coming on the scene. Can 2022 be the year most thought 2021 was supposed to be?
Happy new year, one and all. Let us hope it is indeed filled with hope, laughter and joy.
Average manufacturing wages in Missouri have risen 6.1 percent since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
We are in yet another wave of COVID-19, and as a matter of public policy we are unarmed. We are on our own in a pandemic that even by official counts has killed more than 800,000 Americans, including more than 16,000 Missourians.
As 1991 turned into 1992, America appeared to have arrived at the apogee of its national power and world prestige. President George H.W.
Millions of Americans have recently boarded an airplane heading for someplace to spend the holidays – very possibly in the company of the newest and wiliest strain of the coronavirus, omicron. The invisible hitchhiker will find it difficult to board international flights, as travelers to far-flung destinations are subject to all manner of COVID-19 requirements.