Opinion

This can be the year we scale up solutions that embrace a culture of health and expand family prosperity. Access to a good job, education, health and whole-family well-being are the foundations of family prosperity – as is an inclusive and expansive definition of family that honors the multitude of ways in which we live and care for one another.

After the insurrection, and barbed wire-topped fencing and troops in Washington, D.C., for Inauguration Day, I reflected on Missouri’s 2018 Senate Republican primary. Republicans had a chance to pick a war hero, business owner, civic leader, family man and Christian author, Air Force Lt.

Nursing homes across the nation, and here in Ray and Clay counties, have endured the COVID-19 pandemic with varying degrees of success. Without a doubt, success would have been far greater if nursing home leaders had been warned early on by those in the know – as revealed in tapes from the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward – about the threat to life the virus represented.

This is a time to give thanks. • Thanks that 2020 is over.

Gov. Mike Parson took a positive step on behalf of Missourians this month in the fight against COVID-19, but the step he took is merely reactive – acting to address the suffering being wrought as the virus spreads – versus proactive, which would have prevented the virus from spreading in the first place.

“Dag-blasted nanny state ninnies!” A puff of orange dust settles in his hair as George Orwell Pother pries open the rusting door to his money-colored, green and gold 1990 Ford F-350 dually. He has far better vehicles, but he owns the dually “just to relate to my fans.”

The new mask “guidance” for schools issued by Gov. Mike Parson’s administration last week is not the kind of decisive leadership Missourians deserve.

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Let’s talk turkey. (No one says that anymore.

The elections are over, and no matter who won the presidency – if that has been decided – now is the time to come together for the common good. At the time of this writing, five days before Election Day, no one knows whether former Vice President Joe Biden or President Donald Trump will win.