Have you ever wondered how children learn certain skills? We teach them how to use a fork and a spoon. We teach them to say please and thank you. We teach them to share, to put their toys away, to read, write, and a plethora of other things. But, how do they learn to do all those things we d…

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Governor Mike Kehoe and the Department of Economic Development’s (DED) Office of Broadband Development (OBD) announced today that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has approved Missouri’s plan to award more than $814 million to bring high-speed internet to…

It was silver aluminum, with blue panels halfway up each side. Glass topped the blue walls, giving a clear view of both the user and those outside the booth.

“Let’s have us a look?” the old man asked. He was inspecting the scarred axles of an old Fisher-Davis carriage; part of a sawmill built in St. Louis near the turn of the century. The last turn---around 1900.

A new year is cause for reflection on the past year, and the new year that lies ahead. Many folks spend New Years day making resolutions, while others watch football games and parades. I tend to believe the old adage that how you begin a year sets the tone for the remainder. I elected to tak…

The simple answer is yes. In most cases seeing is believing. There were several videos taken from different angles that captured the horrific event - the killing of Renee Nicole Good. Before an investigation could even begin, Donald Trump and his minions were trying to convince us that we sh…

Duck hunters are concerned. Duck hunting has changed dramatically in some regions over the last decade or more and duck hunters aren’t happy.

“Even a vapor…” So describes the human life by James in his New Testament writings. “But a mist…” is another interpretation of the original Greek text. We are the “fog” of which Sandburg would later write; and perhaps we too arrive at times on “little cat feet.”

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If you've read just about any of my other columns, you know venison is a staple on my dinner table. I grew up hunting squirrels and deer with my dad on the family farm in Pomona, and I now hunt with Matt, and we eat a lot of deer meat.

The Garden of Eden could not have been Paradise if Adam snored. The first man was perfect at first, so he didn’t. Eve could lie next to him, cover his deficient ribcage with a loving embrace, and drift off to sleep in Heavenly Peace.

Long before technology became the primary means of measuring bird populations, a handful of conservation-minded folks set out to record and monitor species with their eyes and ears. On Christmas Day in 1900, ornithologist Frank Chapman and 26 others put down their shotguns and picked up thei…

“There’s good out there. We just have to look for it,” So spoke our waitress at the Old English Inn at Hollister recently. The Inn has been there since 1912; the name of the eatery I believe has changed a time or two. Name of the young lady lost in my notes somewhere.

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Heading into a new year, it feels like a great time to mix things up. So, after several years interviewing leaders in health and medicine to get their insight for this column, I thought it seemed only fair to turn the tables and have a colleague interview me.

For most of my life I’ve been okay with the fact that I have naturally curly hair. In fact, I’m actually thankful for my hair…but it hasn’t always been that way. You see, I was in junior high and high school when Farrah was in her prime; meaning you couldn’t turn in any direction without see…