Opinion

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.

For years, I have read in The Richmond News how Emanuel Cleaver II is bringing broadband to rural Ray County. Where is it? I haven’t seen it.

Voters and candidates in school board, city council and other municipal races will face an unnecessay new challege in the coming elections, and another unnecessary and divisive change is proposed by Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft.

On this Veterans Day, Nov. 11, we extend our appreciation and thoughts to our active-duty military personnel, and we pay tribute to the many millions of veterans who have served our country over the past 246 years. We also wish to memorialize the passing this year of our brother-inlaw, Cmdr.

I find it interesting that you chose this story for front-page news. I suspect because you assumed that this taunting was an example of white supremacy by school kids.

I’ve written about this subject many times and still find myself dazed by the inadequacies of our state officials and their lack of concern for our state’s poorest citizens.

Amid all the recent accusations and threats by Gov. Mike Parson to punish the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for revealing a significant security flaw in the state’s online database, the most disturbing element is the state’s underlying threat to the freedom of the press for the news media doing its job.

Putting politics aside, people should get vaccinated to protect themselves and others from COVID-19. But that is the trick – getting anyone to put aside politics in this divisive age of hyperpartisanship.

Dianne Mischlick is not unique as a community volunteer, as she is just one of many thoughtful people in Clay and Ray counties who give of themselves willingly, happily to help other people in various ways.

“Never forget!” Those were the words Americans spoke in the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. How could any of us who were alive that day forget?