Opinion

The Big Truth of America’s singular genius

President Joe Biden was addressing America from the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall Thursday morning, at a lectern bearing the presidential seal that had been precisely placed in the center of this historic chamber for what would be a most un-festive commemorative ceremony.
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Remembering a moment of connection and friendship

Larry Pearce, Independence To the editor: In the 1960s I was living in Northeast Kansas City just south of Gladstone Boulevard and a block east of Van Brunt Boulevard. We, my wife and 4 daughters, went to Holy Cross Church on St.
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A deep dive into bad verbiage

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.
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State law intentionally impairs efforts to stop crime

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.
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The First Amendment

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.
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In letters, we share stories and connections

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.
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What does 2022 hold for the stock market?

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?
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Needlessly exposed in a moment of challenge

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.
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