Opinion

There is no reason to doubt that U.S. Rep. Sam Graves and the rest of the House will agree to already unanimously accepted Senate legislation, sponsored by Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, to award the U.S. Army Ranger veterans of World War II the Congressional Gold Medal.

Complex issues require hard work to solve, making them too difficult to use to win political campaigns, so politicians fall back on the tried-and-true practice of faking problems, blowing them out of proportion and then offering solutions to those phantom problems.

I took out the trash Nov. 30.

I don’t understand why some voters in Missouri are so against Congress passing a bill that will benefit those same voters and their children. The Build Back Better bill passed by the House but languishes in the Senate behind a wall of obstruction that just doesn’t make sense.

Missouri Department of Transportation policies, at least as evidenced in Ray County, are far less friendly toward the military and veterans than promised in a state where former Gov. Jay Nixon, present Gov. Mike Parson and other political leaders seek to present a friendly face.

Stock markets fell last week on news of a new COVID-19 variant, Omicron. South African authorties and scientists revealed a new, fast-moving variant had been found.

Americans across the country gathered with their families and loved ones to celebrate Thanksgiving. (They found) an uninvited guest at this year’s Thanksgiving – inflation.

As we celebrated our National Day of Thanksgiving last week, one thing I was especially grateful for was passage of a generational bipartisan infrastructure bill for the American people. Last month, I watched from the White House lawn as President Biden officially signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law.

The smaller of the two “infrastructure” bills before Congress earlier this month has become law and that is a good thing for spurring the economy. The larger of the two spending bills has not passed, has been misidentified and faces an uphill Senate battle.

If you have enough to eat, a place to live, a way to get around, people who care about you or people you care about, then you are wealthy. If you lack any of these elements, you must still be grateful for what you do have while striving to obtain whatever is absent.