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Experts say vaccine campaign needs to speed up in Missouri
(State News ~ 01/25/21)
ST. LOUIS -- Health experts say Missouri isn't vaccinating people quickly enough to create widespread immunity by this summer. To create enough immunity to COVID-19 to make the virus unlikely to spread widely, officials want to inoculate between 70% and 85% of the state's residents. That means getting between 4.3 million and 5.2 million people immunized...
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One injured in fire early Saturday in Cape
(Local News ~ 01/25/21)
One person suffered minor injuries Saturday in an early morning fire in Cape Girardeau. According to a news release from the Cape Girardeau Fire Department, at 3:18 a.m., firefighters responded to a fire at a one-story residential building in the 600 block of Terry Lane. All occupants of the building were outside, and one was transported by ambulance for minor burns to the hands...
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Applying stimulus checks to monthly bills
(Business ~ 01/25/21)
By now, many of you have received your second stimulus check. Mine arrived the other day, although it was far from the $600 the government approved for each qualifying adult and child; apparently the amounts were subject to adjustment based on adjusted gross income...
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Prep Athletics focuses on hard work: Training facility works with young athletes to 'prepare them for whatever the next step is in their journey'
(Business ~ 01/25/21)
In January 2021, former Jackson High School and Southeast Missouri State University track and field star athlete Blake Smith announced his retirement from professional track and field on his personal Facebook page, choosing to focus his efforts on Prep Athletics, his new business...
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Coming this weekend: Photos of Bootheel Bluegrass Festival
(Local News ~ 01/25/21)
On stage in front, the Williamson Branch band performs during the Bootheel Bluegrass Festival to a socially-distanced crowd Friday at the Bavarian Halle in Fruitland. ...
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Business Notebook: Jackson construction up, down last year; funeral home adds crematorium
(Business ~ 01/25/21)
Residential construction in Jackson increased significantly in 2020 compared to 2019, but the value of commercial construction projects was down more than 50% last year, according to a new report from the city's planning office. A tally of the city's 2020 building permits by Jackson building and planning manager Janet Sanders showed total construction values in Jackson totaled $27,020,061 last year, about $5.2 million less than 2019, when construction projects in Jackson amounted to $32,279,723...
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Seek a New Challenge
(01/25/21)
We can all probably agree 2020 was nothing short of a challenge. COVID-19, unrest and violence in cities across our country, political campaigns, and the election and its aftermath all merged to create what meteorologists call “the perfect storm.” No doubt, you’re hoping for a calm and well-behaved 2021. Instead, I’m going to invite you to not only invite challenges into your life this year but to embrace them...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 01/25/21)
Today is Monday, Jan. 25, the 25th day of 2021. There are 340 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 25, 1981, the 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived in the United States. On this date: In 1533, England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who later gave birth to Elizabeth I...
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Prayer 1-25-21
(Prayer ~ 01/25/21)
Lord Jesus, may we daily seek to help and encourage others. Amen.
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Biden is already undoing policies that improved America
(Column ~ 01/25/21)
Now that the Democrats won’t have Donald Trump to kick around anymore, they’ll do it anyway, if for no other reason than to keep your eyes off their extremism. While President Joe Biden is talking about “unity and compromise,” the leftist machine is still obsessing over Trump (by design) and demonizing and silencing his supporters. Leftists don’t want unity and compromise, which has been clear since Trump announced his candidacy in 2015. They want total control and submission...
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No, there won't be unity
(Column ~ 01/25/21)
Inaugural addresses are meant to be aspirational, so President Joe Biden might as well have doubled down on his call for unity in his address. After the events of Jan. 6, there’s much to be said for more unity, or at least less poisonous division, and Biden’s emphasis on the theme was deeply felt and entirely sincere. But by making it his goal and the standard by which he’ll be judged, Biden is setting himself up for failure...
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Speak Out 1/25/21
(Speak Out ~ 01/25/21)
All I have to say is, “Come on 2024.” I voted for Trump twice, and if he runs again I will make that THRICE. America first. You better believe it. We will not see USA first for the next four years, and the USA will be the loser! ...
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Thomas, Deisher recognized with Ritter Humanitarian Service Award
(Editorial ~ 01/25/21)
Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” Cape Girardeau Central Junior High School social worker Carolyn Thomas and school nurse Dana Deisher answered this plea by forming Intelligent Female, an after-school program for young women dedicated to teaching the next generation of young women how to love themselves and be impactful in their communities...
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Truman Horn
(Obituary ~ 01/25/21)
Truman Udel Horn, 91, of Jackson passed away Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021, at his home, surrounded by his loving family. He was born May 19, 1929, in Cave City, Arkansas, to Alson and Mae Francis Perkey Horn. He and Dorothy Maintz married July 12, 1968, in St. Louis...
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NBC to shut down NBC Sports Network at end of 2021
(Entertainment ~ 01/25/21)
The NBC Sports Network, which is best known for its coverage of the NHL and English Premier League, will be going away at the end of the year. NBC Sports chairman Pete Bevacqua announced the channel's shutdown Friday in an internal memo to staff. "At the conclusion of 2021, we have decided that the best strategic next step for our Sports Group and the entire Company is to wind down NBCSN completely," Bevacqua said in the memo...
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U.S. police weigh officer discipline after rally, Capitol riot
(National News ~ 01/25/21)
For two Virginia police officers who posed for a photo during the deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection, the reckoning has been swift and public: They were identified, charged with crimes and arrested. But for five Seattle officers the outcome is less clear. Their identities still secret, two are on leave and three continue to work while a police watchdog investigates whether their actions in the nation's capital Jan. 6 crossed the line from protected political speech to lawbreaking...
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2 in 5 Americans live where coronavirus strains hospital ICUs
(National News ~ 01/25/21)
Straining to handle record numbers of COVID-19 patients, hundreds of the nation's intensive care units are running out of space and supplies and competing to hire temporary traveling nurses at soaring rates. Many of the facilities are clustered in the South and West...
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Democrats make federal election standards a top priority
(National News ~ 01/25/21)
Democrats plan to move quickly on one of the first bills of the new Congress, citing the need for federal election standards and other reforms to shore up the foundations of American democracy after a tumultuous post-election period and deadly riot at the Capitol...
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Insurers add food to coverage menu as way to improve health
(National News ~ 01/25/21)
When COVID-19 first swarmed the United States, one health insurer called some customers with a question: Do you have enough to eat? Oscar Health wanted to know whether people had adequate food for the next couple weeks and how they planned to stay stocked up while hunkering down at home...
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Growing number of GOP senators oppose impeachment trial
(National News ~ 01/25/21)
WASHINGTON -- A growing number of Republican senators say they oppose holding an impeachment trial, a sign of the dimming chances former President Donald Trump will be convicted on the charge he incited a siege of the U.S. Capitol. House Democrats, who will walk the impeachment charge of "incitement of insurrection" to the Senate this evening, are hoping strong Republican denunciations of Trump after the Jan. ...
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Confirmed virus cases increasing among Missouri lawmakers
(State News ~ 01/25/21)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Missouri Legislature is continuing to grow after lawmakers converged at the Capitol to begin their annual session. Four additional lawmakers told The Associated Press on Friday they had contracted the virus, bringing the total to at least seven since the session began Jan. 6. The outbreak is among the larger ones being reported as state legislatures across the country get to work this month...
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Missouri coronavirus count doesn't include antigen tests
(State News ~ 01/25/21)
ST. LOUIS -- Missouri's health department doesn't include antigen tests in its count of COVID-19 cases, meaning tens of thousands of positive tests have not been included in the state's tally. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch obtained data from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services showing antigen tests found 20,083 cases of the coronavirus in December alone, and 12,228 in January through Tuesday...
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Freida Bohnsack
(Obituary ~ 01/25/21)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Freida C. Bohnsack, 94, of Advance passed away Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021, at Woodland Hills Nursing Home in Marble Hill, Missouri. She was born Jan. 15, 1927, in Greenbriar, Missouri, the daughter of William "Bill" Newell and Clara Marie Harris...
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Larry King, broadcasting giant for half-century, dies at 87
(National News ~ 01/25/21)
LOS ANGELES -- Larry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes helped define American conversation for a half-century, died Saturday. He was 87. King died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his production company, Ora Media, tweeted. ...
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Out of the past: Jan. 25
(Out of the Past ~ 01/25/21)
Two Cape Girardeau schools foundation board members -- Steve Write and Walter Joe Ford -- have resigned, one in protest of a plan to close Wednesday's scheduled board meeting; the meeting subsequently was rescheduled for Saturday and will be open to the public; the foundation, established in 1993, is a private fund-raising arm for the school district...
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