Opinion

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.

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.

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.

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