Opinion

Body For 33 years, my organization has been sounding the alarm about the declining fortunes of young adults.

Body Thoughts and prayers are the least that should be provided following the latest among dozens of mass shootings across this nation during the past 20 years.

Body I said hello four years ago this month as editor of the Richmond News and Excelsior Springs Standard. Now, I say good-bye.

Body Legalizing the recreational use of marijuana appears likely to get on the Missouri ballot in November, and from there, seems destined to become law. The prediction that the issue will reach voters is based on a claim by Legal Missouri 2022, the group pushing the ballot plan.

Body Change. Something that is completely natural, yet it can be dreaded.

Body Europe remembers the murders, destruction and subjugation of WWII, and history is now repeating itself in Ukraine. NATO countries have to vastly increase their militaries, both defensively and offensively, to thwart Russia.

Body At some point, others who recall the lost world of real conservativism – people who, like me, campaigned and voted for Ronald Reagan, and who cheered George H.W. Bush’s work to create a “kinder and gentler” nation – need to look U.S. Sen.

Body Calling all conservatives. The real ones.

Body Calling for unity against Vladimir Putin for the unprovoked invasion, indiscriminate destruction and war-crime murders of civilians in Ukraine is easy. Talk is cheap.

Body There is an old saying that is true: “Justice delayed is justice denied,” and lack of action indicates justice remains delayed or worse in Ray County in two high-profiled cases in less than six months.