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Satire: Ready. Fire. Aim.
(B Magazine ~ 09/11/20)
The past six months have been a wild decade. We're living in a maddening timeline where the economy is both bullish (tech companies) and bearish (everything else) at the same time. Despite the massive disruption to small businesses wrought by the pandemic, some entrepreneurs have been able to take advantage of the new reality. Here are some ventures that may or may not be coming to a stock portfolio near you...
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Nash Road in Cape County to close for utility work
(Local News ~ 09/11/20)
Route AB — Nash Road — in Cape Girardeau County will be closed as contractor crews perform utility work, according to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release. The closed section is 180 feet west of County Road 217. The work will take place from 7 to 10 p.m. Sept. 22, the release stated...
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SFMC physician questions coronavirus symptom 'order'
(Local News ~ 09/11/20)
The Saint Francis Medical Center hospitalist credited with developing a comprehensive hospital response to COVID-19 said Wednesday a recent University of Southern California study on coronavirus “order” doesn’t entirely square with her experience. The USC study examined research from more than 55,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in China and nearly 2,500 reported incidents of positive COVID-19 sufferers scattered across the world...
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Commissioners approve more coronavirus reimbursements
(Local News ~ 09/11/20)
Several businesses and organizations in Cape Girardeau and Jackson will receive reimbursements for expenses they’ve incurred due to COVID-19, thanks to action Thursday by the Cape Girardeau County Commission. The payments, totaling $38,889.50, will be paid from the county’s $9.2 million Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act fund, which, since July, has reimbursed millions of dollars to dozens of schools, churches, businesses and other organizations in Cape Girardeau County for their unanticipated costs related to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
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Cape Arts Council craft fair going online for 2020
(Local News ~ 09/11/20)
The Arts Council of Southeast Missouri’s Christmas Arts and Crafts Extravaganza, initially set to celebrate its 50th anniversary Nov. 21 and 22 this year, will be held online only, council director Sara Steffens announced Thursday. “After consulting with vendors, shoppers, workers, and volunteers, and considering health and safety guidelines, we could not in good conscience hold the fair in person,” Steffens wrote in a news release...
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SEMO expands test-optional admissions for Fall 2021
(Local News ~ 09/11/20)
Southeast Missouri State University will expand test-optional admissions and scholarships for new students in fall 2021, president Carlos Vargas announced Wednesday. Test-optional means students are not required to submit an ACT or SAT score to be admitted or receive scholarships...
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Cape County takes no action on tax deferment opportunity
(Local News ~ 09/11/20)
An optional government program allowing employers to defer Social Security tax withholdings from their employees’ paychecks apparently won’t affect Cape Girardeau County government employees. Members of the County Commission on Thursday heard from county payroll director Gina Snyder, who said the program has a downside for both employers and employees. ...
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Engaging more volunteers desired for Cape Girardeau city government
(Local News ~ 09/11/20)
The City of Cape Girardeau has 19 volunteer citizen advisory boards and commissions that meet with some regularity — on a wide variety of areas ranging from historic preservation to planning and zoning, from municipal airport operations to the proper care of trees in city parks and along streets...
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Free lunches available for children in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 09/11/20)
Thanks to a U.S. Department of Agriculture program, free breakfast and lunch will be available at Terry W. Kitchen Junior High School in Cape Girardeau for anyone 18 and younger, regardless of whether they are enrolled at a school in the district, an official said...
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Task Dogs: Service dog event going virtual
(09/11/20)
Everyone this year has felt some influence from COVID-19, and "Task Dogs: A Service Dog Expo" is no different. Even though we're forgoing an in-person event, we're planning to have a virtual event September 26 as an internet Zoom meeting. The second-annual event to promote giving service dogs to veterans primarily but to all disabled people in general was scheduled for June 6 at the Purina Event Center in Gray Summit, Missouri, but was canceled. ...
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Hollywood's shameful Beijing kowtow
(Column ~ 09/11/20)
Hollywood is accommodating a new era of McCarthyism, imposed this time by Red China. It involves everything that Hollywood tells us that it hates -- censorship, pressure to conform and blacklists. Yet the studios have seamlessly absorbed China's dictates into their operations...
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Airlines approach Congress with captain's hat in hand
(Column ~ 09/11/20)
As the saying goes, "When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." This advice applies to the hole Congress leapt into by bailing out the airline industry back in March through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. Now these companies want even more taxpayer money. The federal government should refuse another bailout...
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California fire that killed 3 threatens thousands of homes
(National News ~ 09/11/20)
OROVILLE, Calif. -- A Northern California wildfire threatened thousands of homes Thursday after winds whipped it into a monster that incinerated houses in a small mountain community and killed at least three people. Several other people were critically burned and hundreds, if not thousands, of homes and other buildings were believed to have been damaged or destroyed in the foothills of the northern Sierra Nevada, authorities said...
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Judges: Trump can't exclude people from district drawings
(National News ~ 09/11/20)
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Saying the president had exceeded his authority, a panel of three federal judges on Thursday blocked an order from President Donald Trump that tried to exclude people in the country illegally from being counted when congressional districts are redrawn...
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'Deadly stuff': Trump's words bring focus back to virus
(National News ~ 09/11/20)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Try as he might to change the subject, President Donald Trump can't escape the coronavirus. In April, the president tried to shift the public's focus to the economy. In July, to defending the country's "heritage." In September, to enforcing "law and order." But all along the way, the death toll from the coronavirus continued to mount...
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Virus bill blocked in Senate as prospects dim for new relief
(National News ~ 09/11/20)
WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats scuttled a scaled-back GOP coronavirus rescue package Thursday as the parties argued to a standstill over the size and scope of the aid, likely ending hopes for coronavirus relief before the November election. The mostly party-line vote capped weeks of wrangling that gave way to election-season political combat and name-calling over a fifth relief bill that all sides say they want but are unable to deliver. ...
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In year of social distancing, virus alters Sept. 11, too
(National News ~ 09/11/20)
NEW YORK -- In a year when the coronavirus pandemic has reshaped countless American rituals, even the commemoration of 9/11 could not escape unchanged. The 19th anniversary of the terror attacks will be marked by dueling ceremonies at the Sept. 11 memorial plaza and a corner near the World Trade Center, reflecting a divide over the memorial's decision to suspend a cherished tradition of relatives reading victims' names in person. ...
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Villa Ann Statler Schaa
(Obituary ~ 09/11/20)
CONWAY, Ark. -- Ann Schaa died Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020, at the age of 84, in Conway. She had been an airman in the U.S. Air Force, a housewife, a mother and an aide at the Arkansas Children's Colony in Conway. Ann was born March 23, 1936, in Sedgewickville, Missouri, to Ishmael Duel and Audrey Ayers Statler...
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Tony LeGrand
(Obituary ~ 09/11/20)
Tony LeGrand, son of the late Adam LeGrand and Lorena Scherer LeGrand, was born June 20, 1935, in Benton, Missouri, and departed this life Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, at Delta South Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation in Sikeston, Missouri, at the age of 85 years...
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Charles Howell
(Obituary ~ 09/11/20)
Charles Howell, son of the late Pleat Elvin and Mildred Jeanette Leggett Howell, was born April 12, 1943, in Cape Girardeau and departed this life Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, at his home in Delta at the age of 77 years. Charles worked in construction all of his life...
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Pauline Filla
(Obituary ~ 09/11/20)
Pauline Melinda Filla, 70, of Cape Girardeau passed away Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Pauline was born April 28, 1950, in Washington, Missouri, to the late Maurice and Leona Frederick Filla. Pauline graduated from the University of Colorado with two degrees. She moved from Colorado with her family, first to Jackson, then to Cape Girardeau in 2002...
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Gary Davis
(Obituary ~ 09/11/20)
Gary Allen Davis, 46, of Jackson, formerly of Crump, died Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Janet Hopkins officiating. Burial will follow at Proffer Cemetery in Crump...
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St. Louis Zoo says python laid 7 eggs without male help
(State News ~ 09/11/20)
ST. LOUIS -- Experts at the St. Louis Zoo are trying to figure out how a 62-year-old ball python laid seven eggs despite not being near a male python for at least two decades. Mark Wanner, manager of herpetology at the zoo, said it is unusual but not rare for ball pythons to reproduce asexually. The snakes also sometimes store sperm for delayed fertilization...
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Mizzou leader backtracks after blocking students on Twitter
(State News ~ 09/11/20)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The leader of the University of Missouri system and chancellor of its flagship Columbia campus is backtracking in the face of backlash and a possible lawsuit for blocking critical students on Twitter. Spokesman Christian Basi on Thursday said system president and Columbia chancellor Mun Choi unblocked the students Wednesday, the same day a lawyer warned he would sue if Choi didn't do so...
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Prayer 9/11/20
(Prayer ~ 09/11/20)
O Lord Jesus, bless those who lost relatives and friends 19 years ago today. Amen.
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Speak Out 9/11/20
(Speak Out ~ 09/11/20)
I wish to express my deepest gratitude to the customer at the R&P gas pumps on Bloomfield who found my credit card that I had left behind and turned it into the service attendant. To all involved in its return, may God continue to bless you for your honesty. Gestures such as this should be recognized...
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EDITORIAL: We remember Sept. 11, 2001
(Editorial ~ 09/11/20)
Many Americans will pause today to reflect on the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001. We remember the two planes that crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York City, another that struck the Pentagon, and a fourth that brave passengers prevented from striking a fourth building -- instead crashing in an open Pennsylvania field...
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Letters reveal public distaste for booze in JFK White House
(Community ~ 09/11/20)
BOSTON -- It was a tempest in a teapot -- or, more accurately, a whiskey tumbler. Presidential transitions are always at least a little tricky. Case in point: Researchers at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum have found a cache of letters from Americans objecting to JFK's embrace of cocktails at White House events...
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Out of the past: Sept. 11
(Out of the Past ~ 09/11/20)
The Cape Girardeau Board of Education says it is an honor for superintendent of schools, Dr. Neyland Clark, to teach courses at Southeast Missouri State University, and he hasn't violated his contract by doing so; Clark's university teaching schedule had been questioned by board member Dr. Ferrell Ervin; in other action, the board votes to refund Amy Randol $300 of the $700 she spent to investigate district financial records...
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Births 9/10/20
(Births ~ 09/11/20)
Daughter to Trevor and Mahala Turner of Marble Hill, Missouri, Southeast Hospital, 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. Name, Sophie Maria Michelle. Weight, 6 pounds, 3 ounces. First child. Mrs. Turner is the daughter of Mark Mayfield of Patton, Missouri. She works in the dietary department of the Missouri Veterans Home. Turner is the son of Tory Turner and Kenny Turner of Marble Hill. He is a framer with BOW Construction...
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Patriot Day Remembered at Guardian Angel School in Oran
(Submitted Story ~ 09/11/20)
The day that no one can forget was acknowledged by Guardian Angel students and staff. Every person at the school wore red, white, or blue. Patriotism ran strong on September 11, 2020 at Guardian Angel School in Oran.
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