Stories from Tuesday, November 23, 2021

The November 2012 issue of Harvard Business Review reported on a longitudinal study of family-operated businesses. The magazine’s results showed that during good economic times, family-run companies don’t earn as much money as companies with a more dispersed ownership structure. When the economy slumps, however, family firms far outshine their peers. When HBR looked across business cycles from 1997 to 2009, it found the average long-term financial performance was higher for family businesses than for nonfamily businesses. The simple conclusion HBR reached is that family businesses focus on resilience more than performance. They forgo the excess returns available during good times in order to increase their odds of survival during bad times. The dynamics of three local families in generational businesses were interviewed by B Magazine: Roy White, Robin White and Amber White Timberlake of Roy’s Tire & Auto in Jackson; Walter Joe, Kevin and Josh Ford of Ford & Sons Funeral Homes headquartered in Cape Girardeau; and Bob Fox and Jim Fox of Cape Girardeau’s Fox Family Dental.

Construction begins on new assisted-living facility Newbridge Management LLC conducted groundbreaking ceremonies Oct. 7 for a new assisted-living and memory care facility at 1205 S. Mount Auburn Road in Cape Girardeau. The 95-bed facility is tentatively slated to open in December 2022...

A crew from Lite Designs and Guttering sets up the Old Town Cape Christmas Tree on Monday in Cape Girardeau. The crew has been setting up Christmas decor in Cape Girardeau for more than 13 years. The third-annual tree lighting ceremony begins at 5 p.m. Friday.

Local municipalities have released the following information on trash pickup for the holiday. The City of Cape Girardeau has announced trash and curbside recycling normally picked up Thursday and Friday will instead be picked early Wednesday. All other routes remain the same...

A communications tower at the old Cape Girardeau County Courthouse in Jackson will soon be taken down and the antenna relocated to the top of a water tank in Jackson. According to Mark Winkler, director of emergency management for Cape Girardeau County, the current tower is dilapidated and outdated...

State Rep. Wayne Wallingford of Cape Girardeau (R-147) recently finishing chairing more than 16 hours of testimony on mental health treatment options in the State of Missouri. Wallingford, the dean of Southeast Missouri's legislative delegation in Jefferson City, said the panel heard its most recent testimony Nov. 10...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri police chiefs have called on state lawmakers to change a new law banning local police from enforcing federal gun laws, which law enforcement officials say is making it harder to fight crime. The Missouri Police Chiefs Association wrote a letter to Republican state lawmakers urging changes to the law, The Kansas City Star reported...

Antibiotics have been a treasure for medicine in their ability to fight infection and stop harmful bacteria. For certain high-risk groups, antibiotics are administered before routine dental visits. Taking antibiotics helps reduce the chance of bacteria seeded to the blood stream from a dental procedure from infecting another part of the body. ...

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 23, the 327th day of 2021. There are 38 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 23, 1971, the People's Republic of China was seated in the U.N. Security Council. On this date: In 1889, the first jukebox made its debut in San Francisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon. (The coin-operated device consisted of four listening tubes attached to an Edison phonograph.)...

With great shopping, family-friendly activities, and the charm of a Hallmark movie, the holiday season in downtown Cape is magical. Kick-off the holidays on Nov. 26 at the lighting of the 30-foot Christmas tree in the Vasterling Suites courtyard at the corner of Broadway and Fountain St. One of downtown Cape’s newest traditions, this magical tree stays lit for the duration of the Christmas season...

O Lord Jesus, thank you for loving us and giving the gift of salvation. Amen.

If you are pregnant and in need, come to the Catholic Church! That was the message of Cardinal John O'Connor 30 years ago when he founded the Sisters of Life in New York. That community of Catholic nuns were founded to protect and enhance the sanctity of human life. The Sisters today are in the New York metropolitan area, Phoenix, Denver, Philadelphia, Toronto and Washington, D.C...

The GOP has had plenty of reason for good cheer in recent months. Nothing can compare, though, with the glad tidings of a potential showdown between Vice President Kamala Harris and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to be Biden's successor in 2024 should he decide not to run for reelection...

FESTUS, Mo. -- Donna Faye Niswonger McClain, 78, of Festus died Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021, at Mercy Hospital Jefferson in Festus. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral service will be at noon Saturday at the funeral home. Burial will be at Cape County Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau...

Rodney L. Dunn, 70, of Jackson passed away Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, at his home. He was born July 12, 1951, in Cape Girardeau to the late Clyde and Ida Mae Peters Dunn. Rodney and Joanna G. Williams were married April 14, 1973, in Olive Branch, Illinois...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Nov. 21 n Medical assists were made at 12:45 p.m. on Walnut Street. n At 9:05 a.m., fire alarm on North Frederick Street. n At 2:15 p.m., commercial fire on William Street...

ST. LOUIS -- A St. Louis couple who gained fame after waving guns at protesters near their home in 2020 are seeking to keep their law licenses by arguing their actions were justified because they were defending their property from a violent and threatening mob...

Hedge fund Alden Global Capital, one of the country's largest newspaper owners with a reputation for intense cost cuts and layoffs, has offered to buy the local newspaper chain Lee Enterprises for about $141 million. In a news release Monday, Alden said it sent Lee's board a letter with the offer. It already owns 6% of Lee's stock and is proposing to buy the rest for $24 a share. Alden says it does not foresee regulatory issues complicating a deal...

ROGERSVILLE, Mo. -- Investigators seized 190 catalytic converters and 67 weapons when they searched a home in Southwest Missouri recently, and one man was arrested after the raid. Court documents say officers from several law enforcement agencies recovered those items along with $125,000 cash and several things that had been reported stolen when they searched the home in Rogersville last month. That small town is about 10 miles east of Springfield...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Kansas City, Missouri school district will return two LGBTQ-themed books to high school shelves Monday following outcry. The North Kansas City School District said it's returning "All Boys Aren't Blue" and "Fun Home," according to a copy of a letter to families provided to The Associated Press by a spokeswoman, who said it was sent Friday...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A 49-year-old man from Omaha, Nebraska, is hospitalized in critical condition after being struck while crossing a road on the Truman Sports Complex property in Kansas City, Missouri, during a Chiefs game. Police say the man was struck by a Chrysler Sedan on Sunday afternoon, about 25 minutes after the start of the game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Kansas City Chiefs. The driver stopped at the scene...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A man was critically hurt when his wife drove over him twice as he tried to dislodge a bowling ball that had been thrown in front of their car Saturday. The couple ran over the bowling ball around 3 p.m. Saturday in Kansas City, Missouri, and the ball became lodged under their car, Kansas City Police spokeswoman Donna Drake said. Later in the day, a suspect went to a police station and admitted to throwing a bowling ball in front of a moving car...

CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY The Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Office released the following items. Arrests to not imply guilt. Arrests n Joel. E. Garner, 23, of Jackson was arrested on a Cape Girardeau County warrant for first-degree endangering the welfare of a child, second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana-synthetic cannabinoid and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia...

ST. LOUIS -- A Missouri man died Saturday after being shot by his 2-year-old child. Police said investigators determined that the child was handling a rifle when it went off Saturday evening, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Officers found the 20-year-old man injured when they arrived at the home in the Peabody Darst Webbe neighborhood of St. Louis east of Lafayette Square around 8:30 p.m. Saturday...

NEW YORK -- Target will no longer open its stores on Thanksgiving Day, making permanent a shift to the unofficial start of the holiday season that was suspended during the pandemic. To limit crowds in stores, retailers last year were forced to turn what had become a weekend shopping blitz into an extended event, with big holiday discounts beginning as early as October...

Turkeys may not be able to fly very far. But their prices can soar -- along with the costs of other holiday staples such as cranberry sauce and pie filling. The Thanksgiving table hasn't been spared the price inflation rampant elsewhere in the economy because of strong consumer demand and labor shortages...

VIENNA -- Austrians savored one last mulled wine in packed Christmas markets before the curtain came down on the holiday season that was just getting underway, plunging the country that gave the world "Silent Night" into its fourth lockdown of this pandemic Monday...

LE GOSIER, Guadeloupe -- Schools closed across the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe on Monday and France's prime minister appealed for calm and dialogue after protests against COVID-19 rules and vaccinations descended into days of rioting and looting...

WASHINGTON -- A committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection issued subpoenas Monday to five more individuals, including former President Donald Trump's ally Roger Stone and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, as lawmakers deepened their probe of the rallies that preceded the deadly attack...

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden said Monday he is nominating Jerome Powell for a second four-year term as Federal Reserve chair, endorsing his stewardship of the economy through a brutal pandemic recession in which the Fed's ultra-low rate policies helped bolster confidence and revitalize the job market...

WASHINGTON -- More than 90% of federal workers received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by Monday's deadline set by President Joe Biden. Biden announced in September more than 3.5 million federal workers were required to undergo vaccination, with no option to get regularly tested instead, unless they secured an approved medical or religious exemption. ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Cadell Walker rushed to get her 9-year-old daughter Solome vaccinated against COVID-19 -- not just to protect her but to help stop the coronavirus from spreading and spawning even more dangerous variants. "Love thy neighbor is something that we really do believe, and we want to be good community members and want to model that thinking for our daughter," said the 40-year-old Louisville mom, who recently took Solome to a local middle school for her shot. ...

WAUKESHA, Wis. -- The SUV driver who plowed into a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee, killing at least five people and injuring 48, was leaving the scene of a domestic dispute that had taken place just minutes earlier, Waukesha's police chief said Monday...

Another burglary at the home of a Cape Girardeau elderly couple -- the second this week and the 14th since May -- occurred Thursday night; the most recent happened while the residents were home, and money was taken by force; the back door to the home of the 85-year-old man and his 75-year-old wife was kicked in, and two men in ski masks, one brandishing a knife, entered the house and demanded money...