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Money in mid-April, IRS says

6 years ago By News Staff

WASHINGTON – The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service announced the distribution of economic impact payments will begin in the next three weeks and will be distributed automatically, with no action required for most people.

Blunt urges Trump’s DHH director to give aid to rural health providers

6 years ago By News Staff

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt – who chairs the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies – joined a bipartisan, bicameral group of 121 members of Congress in sending a letter to the Trump administration calling for immediate assistance to rural hospitals and clinics.

Food service employees essential during crisis

6 years ago By News Staff

Missourians are flooding into their local grocery stores to stockpile cleaning supplies food and, of course, toilet paper. They pile into these stores because they are worried. They pile in because they want to protect their families, and because they want to feel safe.

District teachers create brighter day in time of darkness

6 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Once upon a time, when a person referred to as “The Boss” wore an electric guitar rather than a suit and tie, and a young man did not use his single glove as an oven mitt, the world’s No. 1 musical artists gathered to shine light in the darkness.

THESE ARE SOME of the many Excelsior Springs High School teachers who recreate a video to make the world a better place in a time of world crisis.

Lawson woman contracts virus

6 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

LAWSON – A 72-year-old Lawson woman is the first person confirmed to have contracted the coronavirus, COVID-19, in Ray County.

SOCIAL DISTANCING

6 years ago By Michael J. Coren

NEW YORK – In 1918, Philadelphia threw a parade that killed thousands of people.

Ignoring warnings of influenza among soldiers preparing for World War I, the march to support the war effort drew 200,000 people, who crammed together to watch the procession. Three days later, sick and dying patients infected by the Spanish flu filled every bed in Philadelphia’s 31 hospitals.

No-excuse voting possible

6 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

RICHMOND – Tuesday’s municipal elections will not happen – being put off for two months – but perhaps could have happened on the original date if lawmakers had passed Rep. Peggy McGaugh’s “noexcuse” absentee voting measure.

National Guard deploys to fight spread of virus

6 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri National Guard has been mobilized where needed to assist communities in this state that are dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.

“I want to be perfectly clear: This is not about putting Missouri under martial law. This is a planning stage operation to provide more assistance to Missourians and increase our capacity to deploy resources quickly. The Guard will play a major role in supporting state and local communities, ” Missouri National Guard Brig. Gen. Levon Cumpton said

GOV. MIKE PARSON gives a coronavirus update at the Capitol in Jefferson City on March 27.

Newspapers combine during quarantine

6 years ago By Brian Rice Publisher

During the coronavirus pandemic, public and private businesses are taking extreme measures to practice social distancing and following CDC recommendations to minimize health risks.

Your local newspaper is doing the same.

STATES OF EMERGENCY

6 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

LIBERTY – Ray and Clay counties have issued coronavirus-prompted emergency declarations, and the Clay County Health Department announced three confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Jerry Nolte Clay County Presiding Commissioner and Bob King Ray County Presiding Commissioner

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