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The new SportsPlex facility near North County Park would be convenient to I-55 for out-of-town swim teams traveling for swim meets. Parking is already available. It might also attract the Jackson School District and Notre Dame High School to participate with some funding. Another location with convenient access to I-55 would be next to Cape Central High School...

I appreciate the updated information on the NFL scores and schedule you have been printing. Your paper is my only source of information on these. I do not do computers. I do not own a cellphone with all its apps! My only source with others is a land line phone. Thanks...

Why was the stretch of Highway 61 between Cape Rock Drive and Victoria not completely resurfaced? On both sides of the highway only two-thirds of the right lanes were resurfaced causing a bumpy drive. The rest of the highway through Cape is really smooth...

As expected, I awoke this morning to news that Mississippi elected its first female senator, and that the GOP candidate won by nearly 9 points. Sadly, and also as expected, the campaign advertising arm of the Democratic Party — also known as the mainstream media — was in full spin mode trying to claim some form of victory from their loss. Democrats love second place....

Do not tear down Lorimier School! So now the Jackson aldermen are considering shutting down on-street parking on Georgia Street because the roundabout has forced traffic to go around the mess it created. These are the same people who want to put another roundabout at East Main and Shawnee within 200 feet of a daycare and several apartments...

I knew Frog Penny when we were kids. Frog has come a long way. He is a good person and has done a lot of good things for others. I think that we all should be thankful for Frog. Have not seen him for a couple of years. Thank you, Frog. My brothers, sisters, and I are home for Thanksgiving, and most of us graduated from SEMO. We talked about this name change thing for a long time, and in the end, we all agreed it's a good idea. It should have been done when Truman and Missouri State did it...

California fires What is it? "People don't like a smart president." California has had forest fires for the last how many years? Poor forest management. The state needs to do managed burns in these forests, especially next to towns. They have not been doing them. ...

A big thank you to Dr. Kenneth L. Stilson for his petition to change the name of the university. There are five SEMO alums in my family, and we're donors. We hope everyone will agree. It'll help take the university to a new level. Thank you, Jackson Indian football, for a great season. You gave us a reason to pack The Pit and to travel to all the away games, and you earned the legacy that you're now a part of. We are a football town!...

The Democrat's presidential candidate bench is so short that there's serious discussions that Beto O'Rourke will run in 2020. You just can't make this stuff up. I recently read an article and it summed up our current political mindset perfectly: The "centerpiece" of the Democratic Party's "to-do" list is President Trump -- not the American people. ...

Cape Girardeau has an excellent leaf pickup program. Why is burning still allowed in the city limits? You can't go out in the crisp autumn air without choking on the fumes in some neighborhoods. We should utilize our leaf program and terminate this absurd policy of burning in the city...

Was the column by Walter Williams about racial and gender fraud some type of non-funny satire? Is he really suggesting that there is such rampant/gender racial fraud going on that the U.S. should adopt apartheid era rules? But registering sex and race? Is this an extension of the false claims of wide-spread voter fraud by the far right? Ridiculous. ...

The Town and Country FCE Club was very surprised and saddened to learn the County Commissioners agreed and passed a 300 percent increase in fees to $100 to display a Christmas display in the Cape Girardeau County Park. For many years it was free to display your Christmas display and a few years ago there was a fee of $20. ...

Not too surreptitiously, newspaper scribe Mike Jensen hinted or alleged fraud in the recent election, where no evidence of it exists. Jensen's supposedly objective rhetoric reeks of crass partisanship. When Democrats lose an election, radical elements claim the loss resulted from not being liberal enough. ...

There's no sadder sight than a bunch of women marching for the right to kill their own children. The only blue wave I saw this week was from President Trump in his blue suit standing in front of the blue Air Force One. Of course you may have seen a blue wave from the Democrats when they hit the red wall in the Senate...

The Wall Street Journal reports that 61 state legislative chambers are still in GOP control, compared with 37 for the Democrats. Before Tuesday’s voting, it was 66 chambers in Republican control and 31 with Democrats in power, with one other where the parties were tied. Nebraska’s unicameral legislature is considered nonpartisan, but Republicans are the dominant party there. There was no Blue Wave...

I want to say "thank you" to the person who turned in my diabetic monitor at the Lowe's store. I cannot regulate my insulin pump without the monitor. There was also a sizable amount of money in the bag, which was also all intact. So grateful to know there are still honest people in this old troubled world. Thank you, and may God bless you richly...

Am I the only person old enough to remember what it was like to watch CNN in the 1990s? The political agenda became apparent not so much by the news that was reported, but rather by the news that was not reported. Discussion panels consisted of a liberal moderator, two or three liberal panelists, and one conservative. ...

Congratulations Coach Tuke and all the SEMO players. You dominated the fourth-ranked team in the nation. Keep it up and good luck. We're praying for you. A lot of Republican and Democratic leaders are lining up behind the gas tax increase. That takes political courage especially in this state. ...

Is there only 1 crappie in Lake Girardeau? Thanks for displaying the pictures of our brave police force and fire fighters. I believe a recruiting effort for minority employees must be implemented in both departments. One minority employee in the entire police force and fire department is unacceptable...

I had already decided to do something I have never done before and that is to vote a straight Republican ticket in the upcoming election. I have always voted for the "person" but when you have a party that is filled with so much hate, I have to assume that anyone running as a Democrat shares in their hateful thoughts and actions. ...

Is it humanly possible for the street department of the City of Cape to patch a concrete crack across the width of a street without making a speed bump? There is another new one on Silver Springs Road near the bowling ally. The trash left behind after the SEMO Homecoming parade was terrible. The university and students should do a better job of cleaning up afterward...