Sam Blackwell

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By Sam Blackwell

May 8, 2008

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April 24, 2008 Dear DC, At midnight, a day and a half after I left Cape Girardeau, the air near the Delhi airport looks hazy, almost like it's raining. "No, it's dusty. From the construction," my driver says.

Dear Pat,

April 10, 2008

April 3, 2008

March 27, 2008Dear readers,My father got off work at the Southeast Missourian every day as the paper rolled off the press.

March 20, 2008Dear Julie,It has been biblical around here. Highways and schools have closed because of flooding. More than 12 inches of rain have fallen on us in the past few days. People feel discombobulated. Some have been mightily inconvenienced. A driver drowned.