January 2021

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri National Guard will assist the Department of Health and Senior Services and others at COVID-19 vaccination sites statewide. Vaccine demand exceeds the state’s supply.

KANSAS CITY – The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate jumped 1.3% from November to December, going to 5.8%, the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center reported. The estimated number of unemployed Missourians hit 180,137 in December.

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.

It’s apparent to me that this is just another cover-up by the city manager and city leadership. Their mismanagement in building a restaurant and calling it a clubhouse is laughable. Then, to compound the problem, they decided to create a housing development. Granted, the old clubhouse needed some refurbishing and cleanup. But what the city manager and friends built was a restaurant to compete with independently owned eateries in town. The actual section used for the golf patrons and members isn’t any bigger than my kitchen. I’ve played and been a member for years and have seen its condition go from good to bad several times, all due to the city’s mismanagement.

KANSAS CITY – With COVID-19 numbers improving, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas and Clay County last week agreed to let bars bars and restaurants stay open until midnight, but masks and social distancing remain requirements.