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A federal judge in Texas handed down a ruling this week that is a massive victory for gun owners in Southeast and South Central Missouri. The ruling dealt a major blow to the legal foundation for the …
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By Jason Smith
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8/13/26
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I am a member of an exclusive group of humans.
Though small in number — only 15 percent of the world’s population are members — we have infiltrated every arena of life and learned to adapt …
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By Robin Leach
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8/13/26
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Free and fair elections are the foundation of everything this country is built on.
Every decision that our government makes flows from one basic guarantee: that American citizens — and only …
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By Jason Smith
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8/6/26
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The old codger may have mentioned before that he was Catholic. Hey, don’t hold that against me. We, as I think all Christians are, are taught to love one another, all our fellow human beings, and …
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By Jim Martin
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8/6/26
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They arrive in late summer, lurking within paper bags and tattered cardboard boxes. It’s an old menace — one that finds its way to the surface of our hungry society each summer. We bring it on …
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By Robin Leach
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8/6/26
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When most people look at a weather radar, they see a collection of colorful blobs moving across a map. Green usually means lighter rain, yellow and orange suggest heavier rain, and red often gets …
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By Nick Palisch
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8/6/26
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When Perry County voters head to the polls on Aug. 4, they won’t simply be deciding the fate of Proposition K.I.D.S. They’ll be deciding what kind of community we want to be for the next …
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8/3/26
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In 1980, Missouri voters used the petition process to stop politicians from taxing us without voter approval. Voters are asked to consider removing that limit with Amendment 5 on the August 4 ballot.
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7/30/26
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March 14, 2025 is a day many of us will never forget. It is also a day that our community is still working to get past.
The city of Perryville continues our tornado recovery, and the community …
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7/30/26
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We played Bottle Cap Baseball all summer long when I was a girl; the laundromat up the street saved all the Tab, Orange Crush, and Pepsi bottle caps from their machine for us. My brothers would amble …
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By Robin Leach
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7/30/26
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The old geezer never ceases to be amazed by human behavior. Especially when it involves our political “parties”. Parties, you know, kind of thought they were joyous, convivial gatherings, maybe …
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By Jim Martin
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7/30/26
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When Perry County voters head to the polls on Aug. 4, they won’t simply be deciding the fate of Proposition K.I.D.S. They’ll be deciding what kind of community we want to be for the next …
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7/30/26
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Every summer, it happens.
You step outside expecting another warm July afternoon, but instead you’re greeted by air so thick it almost feels like you could wear it. You immediately start …
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By Nick Palisch
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7/30/26
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Imagine you just received an insurance claim for a routine doctor visit. Medicare paid their part; your supplemental insurance paid of the rest except for one thing: sales tax. Your health insurance …
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7/23/26
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Our community is facing a vital decision regarding Prop KIDS on August 4, 2026. Now is the time for our community to support an unprecedented need.
As you drive into Perryville, all residents …
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7/23/26
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The Missouri Constitution is the people’s constitution. Every word of it has been approved by a simple majority statewide vote. For 118 years, important provisions of our constitution have been …
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By Michael Wolff
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7/23/26
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The floods that swept across Reynolds, Iron, and Crawford Counties last week left behind heartbreaking devastation.
The National Weather Service confirmed that this was a 1,000-year flood, …
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By Jason Smith
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7/23/26
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The old guy, seemingly unaccountably, finds himself scratching his bald pate about three questions as he sits mopping his brow in the cooling shade of the River Tree. Didn’t know I could mop my …
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By Jim Martin
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7/23/26
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If you’ve been following weather headlines lately, you may have done a double take. How can we have talk of a strong El Niño and La Niña at the same time? Isn’t that like saying it’s both day …
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By Nick Palisch
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7/23/26
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It makes us sad that some people are opposed to Prop KIDS. We elected our Board of Education to analyze and evaluate, and to make recommendations to meet the needs of our students at Perry County …
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7/16/26
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Today, while scrolling through the news, I watched footage showing people leaving a fair while President Trump was speaking. Whatever anyone’s political views may be, one thought immediately came …
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7/16/26
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Talk about your clash of faith, habit and human frailty/fallibility! The codger’s always amazed how faith can guide us, if we honestly embrace it. But too many of us have grown up in a society …
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By Jim Martin
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7/16/26
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Your wonderful indoor bathroom. If you’re under 50, you may not realize just how good you have it.
Regardless of the weather or time of day, when we had to go, we sprinted to the outhouse …
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By Robin Leach
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7/16/26
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Every good hustle needs a snappy name, and for a long time Missouri had a beauty: gray market games.
It rolled off the tongue and suggested a place between the lines, a zone the lawyers hadn’t …
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By Jason Hancock
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7/16/26
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This past week served as a sobering reminder that Mother Nature doesn’t care what the calendar says or whether it’s the middle of summer vacation. Across southern Missouri, several popular …
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By Nick Palisch
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7/16/26
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