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Missouri Planned Parenthood sues over transgender inquiry
(State News ~ 04/03/23)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri's state attorney general is investigating gender-affirming care provided by Planned Parenthood, according to a lawsuit filed Friday by the St. Louis health provider. Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey demanded documents from Planned Parenthood after finding out the clinic provides "life-altering gender transition drugs to children with any therapy assessment," spokeswoman Madeline Sieren said in a statement. ...
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Cape Girardeau Public Schools evaluates its libraries as above average
(Local News ~ 04/03/23)
A report on the biannual evaluation of Cape Girardeau Public Schools libraries was given during a regular meeting of the Board of Education on Monday, March 27. Howard Benyon, deputy superintendent of Elementary Education and the next district superintendent, said he evaluated the district's K-12 media library program as above average. ...
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Jason Smith, Missouri's U.S. Senators, back Trump
(Local News ~ 04/03/23)
Southeast Missouri U.S. Rep. Jason Smith, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and longtime supporter of Donald Trump, remains fully in the former president's corner as Trump faces his expected arraignment Tuesday, April 4, on still-unspecified charges...
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Special Olympics program coordinator Scott Williams honored for dedication
(Local News ~ 04/03/23)
For 26 years, Scott Williams, recreation division manager for the Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department, has been involved with Special Olympics, getting his start in college to now being a part-time program director for the Southeast Missouri area...
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City councilman, former reporter releases second murder mystery
(Local News ~ 04/03/23)
Local author Mark Bliss — a former Southeast Missourian reporter who is now on the Cape Girardeau City Council — is taking readers on another trip to Elmwood, Missouri, to unravel another murder mystery. "Grounded in Murder", the second installment of Bliss' Elmwood mystery series, was published earlier this year...
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Jackson hotel switches brands
(Business ~ 04/03/23)
Welcome La Quinta Inn by Wyndham to Jackson. Located just off East Jackson Boulevard near Kohlfeld Distributing and Delmonico's Restaurant, the Jackson hotel at 303 S. Old Orchard Road has switched brands. Previously known as Best Western, an employee told the Southeast Missourian the change was made from Best Western in the last week of March, adding the property maintains the same ownership...
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The business of hiring as graduation time approaches
(Business ~ 04/03/23)
Commencement at Southeast Missouri State University, similar to other area institutions of higher learning, is Saturday, May 13 — less than six weeks from now. Graduates need jobs and companies need workers — and for those doing the hiring, it's a more competitive environment...
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Sponsored: Meet the Experts: Find the Right Mower for Your Lawn with Jeff Dunlap, retail manager at SN Partners
(04/03/23)
Having the right piece of equipment makes maintaining your lawn more efficient and enjoyable. Helping you find the correct fit for your property is what Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners does best. “Be sure and find the [machine] that would work in all [your] conditions the best for the money,” says Jeff Dunlap, SN Partners retail manager. “It’s all about having the best value for the money.”...
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Column: Senior Moments, "Imagine"
(04/03/23)
Someone once told me life has three components: what we know, what we know we don’t know and everything else. Hearing this, I had two thoughts: First, that this theory is completely random. Second: It is pure genius. Despite my best efforts, I can’t forget it...
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Poem: My Country Garden
(04/03/23)
The fragrance of jasmine, honeysuckle and rose, fill up the air and tickle my nose. Sweet peas ramble over hedges, fences and dell, daisies, lilies and hollyhocks beckon, “Come, sit a spell.” Butterflies and hummingbirds hover nearby in my little piece of heaven...
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Community Cookbook: Taiwanese Sesame Oil Vermicelli by Shu-Chuan Wang-McGrath from Taiwan
(04/03/23)
Recipes tell the stories of communities and the people who shape them. Each recipe is more than a list of ingredients and steps; it is a written legacy of the individual who created the dish, their family and history. This monthly series highlights one of these legacies and gives readers the chance to create the recipe themselves...
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The Best Books Club: Examining Our Own Lives in Response to History
(04/03/23)
I love history and always have. Several years ago, however, I developed an inexplicable antipathy toward books written about or set during World War II. As a result, I intended to never read Heather Morris’ best-selling, award-winning “The Tattooist of Auschwitz.” Ultimately, though, I succumbed to the urging of more than a few people and selected this novel based on actual people and events for The Best Books Club...
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Column: Art and Life, "The Gift"
(04/03/23)
We have been told each of us is given a gift when we are born. For some, it is easy to see early-on, such as a talent in music or art. For others, it is revealed over time or discovered later in life. Whenever we find and acknowledge that gift, we may be intimidated or afraid to try. Van Gogh said, “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” Art is a process that is opened when we trust our subconscious and life experiences and begin by playing with the media...
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Pop Culture Happenings: April
(04/03/23)
April is the month for jokes, hoaxes and illusions. Below are some fools fooling and being fooled. 1973 50 years ago On April 2, 1973, John Lennon and Yoko Ono founded the country of Nutopia. In comical protest of Lennon’s ongoing immigration struggles, he and Ono declared themselves ambassadors of the “conceptual” country and demanded diplomatic immunity in order to remain in the United States. ...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 04/03/23)
Today is Monday, April 3, the 93rd day of 2023. There are 272 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 3, 1973, the first handheld portable telephone was demonstrated for reporters on a New York City street corner as Motorola executive Martin Cooper called Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs...
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Prayer 4-3-23
(Prayer ~ 04/03/23)
O Lord Jesus, in all things may we keep our eyes on you. Amen.
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It's not March Madness, it's gender craziness
(Column ~ 04/03/23)
We know the whole world has gone crazy. Nowhere has it become more insane than what's been going on in women's collegiate and high school sports. Biological males have been allowed to compete against girls and women in swimming, softball and even weightlifting, which, to people who are not woked out of their minds, is patently unfair to girl and women athletes...
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Are more progressives coming around on regulation?
(Column ~ 04/03/23)
George McGovern, the Democratic Party's 1972 presidential nominee, was a liberal icon. During many years in political office, including as a U.S. senator from South Dakota, McGovern successfully championed loads of regulations, taxes and mandates in the name of the public good. But as a business owner, he was held back to the point of failure by the same sorts of burdens he had once earnestly promoted to achieve lofty goals...
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Junior Music Festival celebrates 30 years in Cape
(Editorial ~ 04/03/23)
For several decades, music students have performed in Cape Girardeau as part of the Junior Music Festival. The event allows students, ages 18 and younger, to demonstrate their skills and musicianship in front of a judge and receive a rating. Each rating comes with points. A superior, for example, is 5 points. An excellent is 4 points. And so on. When a student accumulates 15 points — a minimum of three years — they earn a Gold Cup Award. Multiple awards can be earned over the years...
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Vickie Ice
(Obituary ~ 04/03/23)
MOUND CITY, Ill. — Vickie Dale Litchford Ice, 74, of Mound City, formerly of Charleston, Missouri, died Friday, March 31, 2023, at the Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 4, at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston...
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Ukrainian official offers plan for a Crimea without Russia
(National News ~ 04/03/23)
KYIV, Ukraine -- A top Ukrainian official on Sunday outlined a series of steps the government in Kyiv would take after the country reclaims control of Crimea, including dismantling the strategic bridge that links the seized Black Sea peninsula to Russia...
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Saudis, other oil giants announce surprise production cuts
(National News ~ 04/03/23)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Saudi Arabia and other major oil producers on Sunday announced surprise cuts totaling up to 1.15 million barrels per day from May until the end of the year, a move that could raise prices worldwide. Higher oil prices would help fill Russian President Vladimir Putin's coffers as his country wages war on Ukraine and force Americans and others to pay even more at the pump amid worldwide inflation...
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Explosion in Russian cafe kills prominent military blogger
(National News ~ 04/03/23)
An explosion tore through a cafe in Russia's second-largest city Sunday, killing a well-known military blogger and strident supporter of the war in Ukraine. Some reports said a bomb was embedded in a bust of the blogger that was given to him as a gift...
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Trans people face rhetoric, disinformation after shooting
(National News ~ 04/03/23)
Anti-transgender rhetoric and disinformation in the days following the shooting at a Nashville Christian school that killed six people have heightened the fears of a community already on edge amid a historic push for more restrictions on trans people's rights this year...
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Pandemic pounds push 10,000 U.S. Army soldiers into obesity
(National News ~ 04/03/23)
After gaining 30 pounds during the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Daniel Murillo is finally getting back into fighting shape. Early pandemic lockdowns, endless hours on his laptop and heightened stress led Murillo, 27, to reach for cookies and chips in the barracks at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Gyms were closed, organized exercise was out and Murillo's motivation to work out on his own was low...
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Voters with disabilities often overlooked in voting battles
(National News ~ 04/03/23)
WASHINGTON -- Patti Chang walked into her polling place in Chicago earlier this year, anxious about how poll workers would treat her, especially as a voter who is blind. Even though she was accompanied by her husband, she said she was ignored until a poll worker grabbed her cane and pulled her toward a voting booth...
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Blinken: Russia must immediately free 2 detained Americans
(National News ~ 04/03/23)
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged his Russian counterpart, in a rare phone call between the diplomats since the Ukraine war, to immediately release a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained last week as well as another imprisoned American, Paul Whelan, the State Department said Sunday...
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$90 cream and $10 toothpaste: Companies target big spenders
(National News ~ 04/03/23)
NEW YORK -- Companies from toothpaste makers to even discounters are adding more premium items such as designer body creams and services as they reach out to wealthier shoppers who are still spending freely even in the face of higher inflation and a volatile economic environment...
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Poll: Cut federal spending -- but not big-ticket programs
(National News ~ 04/03/23)
WASHINGTON -- In the federal budget standoff, the majority of U.S. adults are asking lawmakers to pull off the impossible: Cut the overall size of government, but also devote more money to the most popular and expensive programs. Six in 10 U.S. adults say the government spends too much money. ...
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Rebounding Pope Francis marks Palm Sunday in Vatican square
(National News ~ 04/03/23)
VATICAN CITY -- Bundled in a long, white coat and battling a hoarse voice, Pope Francis presided over Mass in St. Peter's Square before tens of thousands of faithful on Palm Sunday, a day after he left a Rome hospital where he was treated for bronchitis...
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Trump to deliver remarks Tuesday night after his arraignment
(National News ~ 04/03/23)
NEW YORK -- Former President Donald Trump will deliver remarks Tuesday night in Florida after his scheduled arraignment in New York on charges related to hush money payments, his campaign announced Sunday. Trump will hold the event at his Mar-a-Lago club after returning from Manhattan, where he is expected to voluntarily turn himself in. ...
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US leads world in weather catastrophes. Here's why
(National News ~ 04/03/23)
The United States is Earth's punching bag for nasty weather. Blame geography for the U.S. getting hit by stronger, costlier, more varied and frequent extreme weather than anywhere on the planet, several experts said. Two oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, the Rocky Mountains, jutting peninsulas such as Florida, clashing storm fronts and the jet stream combine to naturally brew the nastiest of weather...
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32 dead as tornadoes torment from Arkansas to Delaware
(National News ~ 04/03/23)
WYNNE, Ark. -- Residents across a wide swath of the U.S. raced Sunday to assess the destruction from fierce storms that spawned possibly dozens of tornadoes from the South and the Midwest into the Northeast, killing at least 32 people. The storms tore a path through the Arkansas capital and also collapsed the roof of a packed concert venue in Illinois, stunning people throughout the region with the scope of the damage...
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Activists' network in Mexico helps U.S. women get abortions
(National News ~ 04/03/23)
CHIHUAHUA, Mexico -- Marcela Castro's office in Chihuahua is more than 100 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, yet the distance doesn't prevent her from assisting women in the United States in circumventing recently imposed bans on abortion. From the headquarters of Marea Verde Chihuahua, an organization that has supported reproductive rights in northern Mexico since 2018, Castro and her colleagues provide virtual guidance, as well as shipments of abortion pills for women who want to terminate a pregnancy on their own.. ...
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Out of the past: April 3
(Out of the Past ~ 04/03/23)
Cape Girardeau Board of Education members last night unanimously favored only one of 14 recommendations they received from school administrators, staff and patrons to reduce the operating budget for the 1998-99 school year; the school district has deficit spent in the past three fiscal years and needs to identify ways to cut about $1 million from its operating budget for the coming year; all board members last night seemed to agree the estimated $170,000 the district would save by implementing an early retirement incentive for teachers would be a positive move.. ...
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DARBY FINANCIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MONTH
(Submitted Story ~ 04/03/23)
For release immediately, with photo April 1, 2023 DARBY FINANCIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MONTH Kelly Darby of Jackson, a financial representative with Modern Woodmen of America, was financial representative of the month in the Missouri East Region for the month of March...
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QUALLS RECEIVES NEW MEMBER AWARD
(Submitted Story ~ 04/03/23)
For release immediately, with photo April 1, 2023 QUALLS RECEIVES NEW MEMBER AWARD Bruce Qualls of Jackson, a financial representative with Modern Woodmen of America, was New Member Leader in the Missouri East Region for the month of March. Qualls joined Modern Woodmen in October 2005. Modern Woodmen of America is a fraternal life insurance society headquartered in Rock Island, IL. Modern Woodmen provides life insurance, annuity, and security products to over 717,000 members nationwide...
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Business quote
(Business ~ 04/03/23)
We all have bad days, but if you woke up this morning, you are still undefeated in life. ...
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Cape Girardeau, Jackson, Perryville chamber news
(Business ~ 04/03/23)
First Friday Coffee will be held at 7:40 a.m. Friday, April 7, by Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce at Century Casino Cape Girardeau Event Center at 777 N. Main St. in Cape Girardeau. Doors open at 7 a.m. Continental breakfast provided...
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SEMO-branded spirits for sale
(Business ~ 04/03/23)
Copper Dome Whiskey, produced by Southeast Missouri State University alumni-owned Nobletons Distilling House in Union, Missouri, is available for purchase while supplies last during SEMO's sesquicentennial celebration. The 100-proof brew is being sold in 750-millileter bottles and is available, according to the university in a Facebook post, at the following area locations:...
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SEMO Greek Life 2023 blood drive results lower than hoped
(Business ~ 04/03/23)
Blood donations remain lower than anticipated, if Southeast Missouri State University's recent March 26 to 29 Greek Life drive is any indication. According to SEMO graduate student and drive coordinator Kate Appleman, 667 units were given during the four-day period, falling short of the 790-unit goal...
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Federal ban on certain light bulbs coming soon
(Business ~ 04/03/23)
Retailers, beginning Tuesday, Aug. 1, will be banned from selling incandescent light bulbs in the United States, with regulators saying the move toward light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs will save consumers an estimated $3 billion annually on utility bills and will cut carbon emissions by 222 million metric tons over the next 30 years...
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Higher temps lead to increased gas prices
(Business ~ 04/03/23)
Missouri motorists are paying more at the pump as March gives way to April's warmer weather. Auto club federation AAA surmises higher temperatures are encouraging more U,S. motorists to travel — leading to a sharp increase in gas prices. In the Show Me State, the average price for a gallon of regular Saturday, April 1, rose to $3.13, up a full 10 cents from a week earlier and 14 cents more than a month ago...
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Scott City's Irvin marks one year anniversary for 'offbeat' quilt shop
(Business ~ 04/03/23)
The name of Bohemian Scrapsody quilt shop in Scott City, its owner will not deny, is at least tangentially a nod to the famous 1975 rock song by Queen, "Bohemian Rhapsody". "There's a play on words there, sure," said Kelly Irvin, who opened the self-described "offbeat" arts and crafts store March 10, 2022, in 1,500-square-feet of rented space at 1318 Main St...
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