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Food Bank expands to Cape Girardeau County
(Business ~ 01/24/22)
Southeast Missouri Food Bank has purchased a building in Jackson and will expand its operations to Cape Girardeau County by mid-summer, said Joey Keys, the food bank's executive director since 2018. Keys said the 72,000-square-foot headquarters and warehouse will remain in Scott County but the not-for-profit saw it needed a second location to the north...
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Retention, realignment and SEMO Athletics: Athletics director gives the score on university sports and what the future holds
(Business ~ 01/24/22)
Southeast Missouri State University Athletics director Brady Barke, with several SEMO head coaches in attendance who have led teams to championships, spoke briefly Friday to the Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce's January Business Breakfast about the leadership consistency seen in the university's 13 official sports...
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Ameren Missouri continues installation of solar canopies at Show Me Center
(Local News ~ 01/24/22)
Solar canopies being installed in Cape Girardeau are on track to generate power for the area by July, according to Brad Brown of Ameren Missouri. The project which officially began Oct. 25 on the north and south parking lots of the Show Me Center ...
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Gov. Parson wants flood-response agency for Missouri
(State News ~ 01/24/22)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Gov. Mike Parson wants to spend $10.4 million to create a new office that would help the state better prepare for floods and drought. Missouri Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman Connie Patterson told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch creating the new Missouri Hydrology Information Center is part of the state's response to the 2019 floods in the Missouri and Mississippi river basins that caused roughly $20 billion damage. ...
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Prayer 1-24-22
(Prayer ~ 01/24/22)
Lord God, we ask you for wisdom and courage to do what is right. Amen.
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Pitching softballs to Joe Biden
(Column ~ 01/24/22)
Joe Biden didn't disappoint me. At his press conference last week, he was the same old strange guy with the same old predictable excuses for one of the most hapless rookie presidential years in history. The liberal media reporters didn't disappoint me...
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Ex-Im is wasteful abroad we don't need it at home
(Column ~ 01/24/22)
For years now, the U.S. Export-Import Bank an under-the-radar agency that provides subsidized loans to foreign firms willing to buy American products has tried to remain relevant. After a semi-hiatus alongside criticism for functioning as the "Bank of Boeing," Ex-Im convinced the Trump and Biden administrations it may be a tremendous weapon to fight Chinese influence. While it can do no such thing, Ex-Im is now moving on to something else: extending its domestic influence...
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Jackson Chamber recognizes community leaders at annual banquet
(Editorial ~ 01/24/22)
The Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce recently recognized several community leaders during the organization's annual banquet held Jan. 14 at the Jackson Civic Center. Receiving the lifetime achievement award, otherwise known as the R.A. Fulenwider Award, was John N. ...
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Scott City Chamber meeting rescheduled; Cape Chamber holds ribbon-cuttings
(Business ~ 01/24/22)
Scott City Area Chamber of Commerce will meet at 7:15 a.m. Thursday at the Front Porch, 1408 Main St. Last week's planned gathering was postponed because of inclement weather. n Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce will hold two ribbon-cuttings over the next week...
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Little takes Scott County nurse practitioner position
(Business ~ 01/24/22)
Jenna A. Little, APRN, FNP-BC, FNP-C, has accepted a nurse practitioner role at Ferguson Medical Group-Sikeston, a Saint Francis Medical Partner. Little, who specializes in family practice, earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in nursing from Southeast Missouri State University...
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Long appointed to management role at Saint Francis
(Business ~ 01/24/22)
Gwendolyn S. Long has accepted the role of radiology manager for Saint Francis Healthcare System. Long has worked for Saint Francis as a nuclear medicine specialist and lead technologist for 17 years and received her medical education from the University of Missouri-Columbia...
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Jackson accepts physician assistant role in Cape Girardeau
(Business ~ 01/24/22)
Jenna M. Jackson, PA-C, has accepted a physician assistant role at Cape Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, a Saint Francis Medical Partner. Jackson, board certified by the National Commission of Physician Assistants, holds degrees from Southeast Missouri State University and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale...
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Page named to nurse practitioner position at Saint Francis
(Business ~ 01/24/22)
Kara A. Page, AGACNP-BC, is working as an acute care nurse practitioner with hospitalists at Saint Francis Medical Center. Formerly a registered nurse in Saint Francis' progressive care unit, Page has earned nursing degrees from Southeast Missouri State and Maryville universities...
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Hanauer takes nurse practitioner role in Mississippi County
(Business ~ 01/24/22)
Rachel S. Hanauer has accepted a nurse practitioner role at Ferguson Medical Group-Charleston, a Saint Francis Medical Partner. Board certified by American Nurses Credentialing Center, Hanauer holds degrees from Loyola, Oak Point and Vanderbilt universities...
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Owners of Cobblestone Corner boutique retire in Jackson
(Business ~ 01/24/22)
The owners of Cobblestone Corner boutique in uptown Jackson, Janey Foust and Amy Beussink, have decided to retire after nine years in business at 130 S. High St. Foust and Beussink, according to the boutique's Facebook page, have sold the business and will turn over the keys to a new owner March 31...
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Tax filing season begins
(Business ~ 01/24/22)
The Internal Revenue Service will begin accepting and processing 2021 tax year returns today, 21 days earlier than a year ago. "The pandemic continues to create challenges but the IRS reminds people there are important steps they can take to ensure their tax return and refund don't face processing delays," said IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig in a statement. "Filing electronically with direct deposit and avoiding a paper return are important than ever this year."...
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Netflix sees sharp stock price dip
(Business ~ 01/24/22)
Netflix, the giant streaming service, has seen its stock price dip 41% from its all-time high of just under $700 in November. Friday's closing price for the stock traded under the symbol NFLX was $396.05. "It looks like [Netflix] is hitting maturity," said Wall Street media analyst Michael Nathanson. ...
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TJ's in Fruitland reopens dining area
(Business ~ 01/24/22)
Fruitlands TJs Burgers, Wings and Pizza, 5815 U.S. 61, Suite B, will reopen its dining area Tuesday after being closed to walk-in traffic since Thursday doing delivery and curbside pickup only. ...
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Show Me State's 'expansionary' economy
(Business ~ 01/24/22)
Missouri's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for December was 65.3, a decrease of one point from November but still in "expansionary" territory, according to Creighton University's Mid-America Business Conditions Survey. The survey's key indicators include new orders, production, supplier delivery times, backlogs, inventories, prices, employment, import orders and exports...
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Missouri unemployment rate dips in December
(Business ~ 01/24/22)
Missouri's non-farm payroll employment increased by 16,700 in December, driving the state's unemployment rate down to 3.3% a two-tenths of one percentage point decline from November. Job gains were seen in both goods-producing and service-providing industries...
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Cape Girardeau County tax revenue off to a strong 2022 start
(Business ~ 01/24/22)
General sales tax receipts were the strongest in January in five years with $682,787.17 raised, according to figures released by the office of Cape Girardeau County Treasurer Roger Hudson. The revenue was 11.4% higher than the same month one year ago and constituted the highest amount received in January since the $691,765.74 raised in 2017...
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Inflation, COVID, impacting MoDOT
(Business ~ 01/24/22)
Mark Croarkin, Southeast District engineer for the Missouri Department of Transportation since September 2020, said in remarks to the Southeast Metropolitan Planning Organization (SEMPO) last week it is a "unique time" for MoDOT. Croarkin, who has spent 23 years as a full-time MoDOT employee, quoted MoDOT director Patrick McKenna in telling SEMPO that 828 employees left the state transportation agency in 2021 and half of the entire department had turned over since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.. ...
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Shirley Stovall
(Obituary ~ 01/24/22)
Shirley Gail Stovall, daughter of John and Mary Frances Stovall, was born Sept. 11, 1956, in St. Louis, and departed this life Friday, Jan. 22, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau at the age of 65 years. In addition to her mother, she is survived by one daughter, Rhonda (Dereck) Arnold of Chaffee, Missouri; brothers, Eddie Stovall of Chaffee and John Stovall of Cape Girardeau; and one other brother and one sister; two granddaughters, Victoria (Kelan) Watkins and Bianca Arnold, both of Chaffee; three great-grandchildren, Lucas, Killian and Piper; and one special friend, John Keller of Delta.. ...
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Mary Ann Smith
(Obituary ~ 01/24/22)
Mary Ann Smith, 79, of Jackson died Friday, Jan. 21, 2022, at Advance Nursing Home in Advance, Missouri. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Grace Full Gospel Log Church in Advance. The Rev. Matt Craft and the Rev. Joe Smith will conduct the funeral at 2 p.m. Saturday at the church...
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Norma Lee Mullins
(Obituary ~ 01/24/22)
CARBONDALE, Ill. Norma Lee Mullins, 73, of Carbondale died Friday, Jan. 21, 2022, at Carbondale Memorial Hospital. She was born April 11, 1948, in Cape Girardeau to Evertt W. and Freda Wiggs Robbison. She married Jerry A. Mullins on Oct. 21, 1967, in Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death...
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Gary McAtee
(Obituary ~ 01/24/22)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. Gary R. McAtee, 86, of Perryville died Friday, Jan. 21, 2022, in Perryville. Visitation will be from 8 to 11 a.m. Wednesday at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home, with Casey Brewer officiating. Burial will be at Home Cemetery in Perryville...
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'SNL' comics Jost, Davidson buy Staten Island Ferry boat
(Entertainment ~ 01/24/22)
NEW YORK -- "Saturday Night Live" comics Colin Jost and Pete Davidson have purchased a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry boat for $280,100 with plans to turn it into New York's hottest club. Jost and Davidson teamed up with comedy club owner Paul Italia on Wednesday's winning bid for the John F. Kennedy, a 277-foot vessel that shuttled commuters between the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Staten Island from 1965 until it was taken out of service last August...
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'Spider-Man' comes back swinging, takes No. 1 from 'Scream' sequel
(Entertainment ~ 01/24/22)
After spending one weekend in second place, "Spider-Man: No Way Home" proved it still had some fight left. Sony's superhero juggernaut swung back to first place in its sixth weekend in theaters and became the sixth highest grossing film of all time, globally...
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Vaccine mandate protest held in DC
(National News ~ 01/24/22)
People march alongside the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool before a rally against COVID-19 vaccine mandates Sunday in Washington. ...
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Connecticut youth's overdose death renews pleas for Narcan in schools
(National News ~ 01/24/22)
HARTFORD, Conn. -- The death of a 13-year-old student who apparently overdosed on fentanyl at his Connecticut school has drawn renewed pleas for schools to stock the opioid antidote naloxone, as well as for training of both staffers and children on how to recognize and respond to overdoses...
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Critics target race as factor in COVID treatment
(National News ~ 01/24/22)
MADISON, Wis. -- Some conservatives are taking aim at policies allowing doctors to consider race as a risk factor when allocating scarce COVID-19 treatments, saying the protocols discriminate against white people. The wave of infections brought on by the omicron variant and a shortage of treatments have focused attention on the policies...
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Russia rejects UK claim of trying to replace Ukraine leader
(International News ~ 01/24/22)
MOSCOW -- Russia's Foreign Ministry on Sunday rejected a British claim that the Kremlin is seeking to replace Ukraine's government with a pro-Moscow administration, and that former Ukrainian lawmaker Yevheniy Murayev is a potential candidate. Britain's Foreign Office on Saturday also named several other Ukrainian politicians it said had links with Russian intelligence services, along with Murayev who is the leader of a small party that has no seats in parliament...
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Omicron wave leaves US food banks scrambling for volunteers
(National News ~ 01/24/22)
WASHINGTON -- Food banks across the country are experiencing a critical shortage of volunteers as the omicron variant frightens people away from their usual shifts, and companies and schools that regularly supply large groups of volunteers are canceling their participation over virus fears...
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Logistics center will help abortion seekers get to Illinois
(State News ~ 01/24/22)
With abortion access increasingly restricted across much of the South and Midwest, two Illinois clinics near St. Louis announced Friday they set up a logistics center to help abortion seekers get to their clinics and help them pay for it. The announcement came on the eve of the 49th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. ...
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Out of the past: Jan. 24
(Out of the Past ~ 01/24/22)
The first mission of the new Cape Girardeau County Planning and Zoning Commission is clear: Avoid the mistakes of the past; commission members agree that before they delve deeply into developing a master plan for future county growth, their first step should be to identify the issues that led to voter rejection of a proposed master plan in 1992; that rejection led to the dissolution of the previous planning board...
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Huff named to Foundation role with Saint Francis
(Business ~ 01/24/22)
Stacy Huff joined Saint Francis Healthcare System this month as executive director of foundation, in which capacity he will oversee all fundraising efforts. Huff, who has more than 25 years of not-for-profit, philanthropic and fundraising experience, comes to Saint Francis after serving as executive director of the Boy Scouts of America National Foundation in Dallas for more than a decade...
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Application period for CFO scholarships opens Feb. 1
(Submitted Story ~ 01/24/22)
The Community Foundation of the Ozarks will open applications on Tuesday, Feb. 1, for $1.8 million in scholarships for students pursuing advanced educational opportunities. The CFO holds about 450 scholarship funds that will provide nearly 1,000 scholarships for students across central and southern Missouri for the 202223 school year. The scholarships are open to students for higher education and technical training programs...
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