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Despite turbulent times, there’s still opportunity heading into the New Year
(B Magazine ~ 12/31/22)
It’s not uncommon for financial changes to be part of an individual’s New Year’s resolution. And with the market volatility and persistent challenges with inflation since mid-2021, you’d expect this to be among the most important issues heading into 2023...
- Swearing-in ceremony (Local News ~ 12/31/22)
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Barbara Walters, TV icon, dies
(Local News ~ 12/31/22)
NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Walters, a pioneer as TV news’ first woman superstar, has died, according to ABC News. She was 93. The cause of death was not immediately known, and additional details, such as where she died, were not immediately released. Walters made headlines in 1976 as the first female network news anchor, with an unprecedented $1 million annual salary...
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Jackson native, recent SEMO grad, headed to Jefferson City
(Local News ~ 12/31/22)
When the 102nd Missouri General Assembly convenes Wednesday, Jan. 4, the group will bring together 34 members of the state Senate and 163 state House members, including newly-elected District 147 Rep. John Voss of Cape Girardeau. Lawmakers are supported in their work by a multitude of staff -- and a newly-minted Southeast Missouri State University graduate will be among its ranks...
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Out of the past: Dec. 31
(Out of the Past ~ 12/31/22)
Waiting until the last day to pay taxes, a line trails down the hallway at the Cape Girardeau County Administration Building at Jackson; both real estate and personal property taxes are due today; County Collector Harold Kuehle expects the crowds to continue through 4:30 p.m...
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Senior center menus for Jan. 2-6
(Community ~ 12/31/22)
Monday: Center closed for New Year's Day. Tuesday: Chili with beef and beans and 1/2 sandwich or roasted chicken thighs and veggies, baked potato, whole-grain crackers and chilled tropic fruit or lemon cake. Wednesday: Glazed ham slice or cranberry-glazed chicken breast, sweet potatoes, green beans, whole-grain hot roll and chilled pineapple or iced pumpkin bar...
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It's been cold
(Column ~ 12/31/22)
It's been cold! Our weather people warned us it was going to be cold and nasty, and they were right on. But it wasn't even close to a blizzard. Temps were down around zero and a little below but with 40-mile-an-hour wind, the wind chill was ridiculous for Southeast Missouri. ...
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Can you say flash freeze?
(Column ~ 12/31/22)
Southeast Missouri experienced what local meteorologists called a "flash freeze" Dec. 22, 2022. Normally, the term flash freeze is used in the food industry where foods are frozen solid in a very short time. A fast-moving cold front pushed its way through the area, delivering rain followed quickly by plummeting temperatures and light snow. Overnight temperatures fell to below zero and persisted well into the next day...
- Adopt a pet 1-1-22 (Community ~ 12/31/22)
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Wilson garners honors at horse show
(Community ~ 12/31/22)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Emma Elizabeth Wilson, 11-year-old daughter of Brian and Laura Rolwing Wilson of Columbia, placed in the top 10 at the National Academy Championship Horse Show in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on Nov. 6. Emma placed in the top 10 riders in both equitation and horsemanship divisions from a pool of about 60 riders in her age (9-10) category. ...
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Officials say Bolsonaro may have left Brazil for Florida
(International News ~ 12/31/22)
SAO PAULO -- The office of Brazil's vice president says he has become acting president, an indication that President Jair Bolsonaro has left the country and will break tradition by skipping the inauguration Sunday of his political nemesis, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva...
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At Southwest Airlines, a day of calm after a week of chaos
(National News ~ 12/31/22)
DALLAS -- Southwest Airlines returned to a relatively normal flight schedule Friday, as the focus shifts to making things right with what could be well more than a million passengers who missed family connections or flights home during the holidays, and many of whom are still missing luggage...
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Trump's tax returns released after long fight with Congress
(National News ~ 12/31/22)
Democrats in Congress released thousands of pages of former President Donald Trump's tax returns Friday, providing the most detailed picture to date of his finances over a six-year period, including his time in the White House, when he fought to keep the information private in a break with decades of precedent...
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Suspect in deaths of Idaho students arrested in Penn.
(National News ~ 12/31/22)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Authorities in Pennsylvania arrested a suspect in the killings of four University of Idaho students who were found stabbed to death in their beds more than a month ago, Moscow Police Chief James Fry said Friday. The killings initially mystified law enforcement and shook the small town of Moscow, Idaho, a farming community of about 25,000 people that had not had a murder for five years. ...
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Even Mississippi lawmaker feels strain of Jackson water woes
(State News ~ 12/31/22)
JACKSON, Miss. -- In Mississippi's capital city, where intermittent periods without running water have become a fact of life for residents, a new disruption to the long-troubled water system persists just days before lawmakers are set to arrive for the state's 2023 legislative session...
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Route CC in Cape County closed for drainage work
(Local News ~ 12/31/22)
Route CC in Cape County closed for drainage work Route CC in Cape Girardeau County, between Route C and County Road 535, will be closed as Missouri Department of Transportation crews replace several culverts under the road, according to a MoDOT news release. The work will take place Monday, Jan. 9 through Friday, Jan. 20 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily...
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Peggy Moore
(Obituary ~ 12/31/22)
Peggy Nell Moore, 70, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center. She was born April 28, 1952, in Cape Girardeau to Curtis and Ethel Wright Winchester. She and Mike Moore were married Oct. 15, 1981, at Cape Girardeau...
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Irma Dinwiddie
(Obituary ~ 12/31/22)
Irma Jean Dinwiddie, 95, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022, at her home. Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 4, at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 4, at the funeral home, with Pastor Elaine Schoepf officiating...
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Christmas at the Archive
(Column ~ 12/31/22)
Winter is a quieter time at the Archive Center. The phone is ringing less often, emails flow a little more slowly, and the summer genealogy tourists have hung up their keys for a few months while they meditate on what they've found so far. Staff and volunteers are making inroads on ongoing projects, and year-end administrative duties are wrapping up. All in all, it's a good time for planning and for answering questions...
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Out of the past: Jan. 1
(Out of the Past ~ 12/31/22)
For the third straight year, the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is sponsoring a community-wide Kwanzaa observance; the celebration is being held at the Cape Girardeau Civic Center; people travel from as far away as Poplar Bluff and Kennett, Missouri, to attend the program of entertainment and education...
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Prayer 1-1-23
(Prayer ~ 12/31/22)
O Lord Jesus, may others come to know you this new year. Amen.
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Immigration reform needed
(Letter to the Editor ~ 12/31/22)
On Dec. 27, the Supreme Court held that a pandemic era health measure under Title 42 of the United States Code would for the time being remain in place. This law has been used as a way for border officials to quickly expel migrants without allowing for asylum applications otherwise required by law...
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My hope for more healing in 2023
(Column ~ 12/31/22)
I got an unexpected Facebook message from someone I had unfriended a couple of years back. We disagree on politics, and I just could not handle all the hateful rhetoric in their feed. So, I clicked the unfriend button. This person hopes we can be friends again. "I am more for human beings than for politicians. I've had enough of them," they wrote. I agreed. I am pro-kindness and pro-humanity...
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Trump has supplanted Nixon in post-presidential politics
(Column ~ 12/31/22)
"The tapes are the real man -- mean, vindictive, panicky, striking first in anticipation of being struck, trying to lift his own friable self-esteem by shoving others down," Gary Wills wrote of Richard Nixon in the 2017 preface to his book, "Nixon Agonistes." Wills added, perhaps unfairly, that "Nixon's real tragedy is that he never had the stature to be a tragic hero. He is the stuff of sad (almost heartbreaking) comedy."...
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The new, new antisemitism
(Column ~ 12/31/22)
The old antisemitism was more a right-wing than a left-wing phenomenon -- perhaps best personified by the now-withered Ku Klux Klan. A new antisemitism followed from the campus leftism of the 1960s. It arose from and was masked by a general hatred of Israel, following the Jewish state's incredible victory in the 1967 Six-Day War...
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