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Smith shares concerns on FY22 budget proposal, warns of tax, inflation increases
(Business ~ 06/07/21)
U.S. Rep. Jason Smith says business owners and farmers would be hit especially hard if the president's $6 trillion budget proposal is approved. Following the announcement of President Joe Biden's budget proposal, Smith visited 16 counties across Missouri's 8th District to give his thoughts on the proposal and what it could mean for Missourians. He spoke Friday at the Scott City Area Chamber of Commerce's roundtable discussion on the FY22 federal budget proposal...
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Business Notebook: Missouri revenue collections more than double, report shows
(Business ~ 06/07/21)
What a difference a year makes. Missouri's net revenue collections last month were 128.3% higher than collection levels in May 2020, according to figures released Friday by state budget director Dan Haug. Haug reported last month the state collected $1.22 billion in the form of various sales, income, franchise and other tax revenue last month, compared to $533.5 million during the same month last year...
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U.S. economy growing as COVID-19 waning
(Business ~ 06/07/21)
As we near the midway point of 2021, and as the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic begins to wane in the United States, it's time to assess the nation's economy — where it is and where it appears to be heading. The following are insights offered to the Missourian last week by Scott Colbert, chief economist and director of fixed income management with Commerce Trust Co. in St. Louis...
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Campbell coins Flinkin' brand to capture lifestyle
(Business ~ 06/07/21)
You won't find it in the dictionary, but if Cape Girardeau entrepreneur Glenn Campbell has any say about it, "flinkin'" will soon be part of your vocabulary. Campbell, who co-founded a hugely successful headwear company called LIDS in the 1990s, began thinking of the flinkin' concept a few years ago while floating and enjoying beverages with friends on Kentucky Lake...
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Dohogne family honors memory of fallen members with additions to Avenue of Flags
(Local News ~ 06/07/21)
The Dohogne family received five new flags to the Avenue of Flags at Cape County Park North this past Memorial Day, honoring members of the family who died after their time in the military. Members of the family who received flags: Emmett, Silas, Thomas Sr., Urban and Anthony — all served during World War II, except Thomas Sr., who served in the Vietnam War. The flags were dedicated in a ceremony May 31...
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"So Nothing is Lost:" Robert Harris, Jr. gardens to help grow food, people and community
(06/07/21)
Robert Harris, Jr. is a Master Gardener. He knows that to reap a bountiful harvest, you first have to plant a small seed. That’s just what he’s doing through the Urban Kid’s Project, a collection of projects he’s founded in Cape Girardeau and Scott Counties that seek to improve the lives of people who “can’t do for themselves.” Through the projects, he and the people he partners with bring food and care to the elderly who aren’t able to leave their homes, school supplies to children, community gardens to areas of Cape Girardeau that don’t have easy access to fresh produce, and more.. ...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 06/07/21)
Today is Monday, June 7, the 158th day of 2021. There are 207 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 7, 1942, the Battle of Midway ended in a decisive victory for American naval forces over Imperial Japan, marking a turning point in the Pacific War...
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Senior Moments: Birthday Blues
(06/07/21)
Gone are my dancing queen days, and now I’m shakily standing on the shores of adulthood. The boat ride here was long, and for the last few miles, I just wanted to arrive, but now that I’m here, I think I want to turn around and go back. This world is vast and open-ended, and it awakens a quiet fear alongside the excitement in my heart...
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Prayer 6/7/21
(Prayer ~ 06/07/21)
Inspire us, O God, to rise above the ordinary and make powerful changes. Amen.
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Community Partnership begins new chapter
(Editorial ~ 06/07/21)
Community Partnership of Southeast Missouri opened the doors to its new digs to the public Friday. Located in a building that formerly housed Cape Girardeau Police Department, the 40 S. Sprigg St. facility has been transformed to the tune of $2 million in grant funds, tax credits and donations. The two-story building has nearly 14,000 square feet of space, and Community Partnership will use all of it to provide myriad services to area residents...
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Gustava Lawrence
(Obituary ~ 06/07/21)
Gustava "Toots" Lawrence, 92, of Jackson, formerly of Tamms, Illinois, passed away Thursday, June 3, 2021, at Chateau Girardeau in Cape Girardeau. Gustava was born Nov. 29, 1928, in Delta, Illinois, a daughter of Edward and Dora Cox McCrite. She married Edward Lawrence on Nov. 30, 1945, and he preceded her in death June 2, 1989, after 43 years of marriage...
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Gabriel Gonzalez
(Obituary ~ 06/07/21)
Gabriel Gilberto Gerald "Speedy" Gonzalez, 68, of Jackson passed away Friday, June 4, 2021, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 21, 1952, in San Antonio, son of Juan Julian and Amada Acavedo Gonzalez. Speedy was a 1969 graduate of LaSalle High School (South Antonio) in San Antonio...
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C. Richard Couch
(Obituary ~ 06/07/21)
Clyde Richard Couch, 73, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, June 4, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Memorial visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. June 14 at McCombs Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Inurnment will be at a later date in Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield, with full military honors...
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Business license applications received for mobile Mexican food businesses
(Business ~ 06/07/21)
Cape Girardeau's community development office received business license applications from a pair of mobile Mexican food vendors last week. They were from: n Josiah Seyer of Jackson on behalf of a food trailer business called Muchos Tacos 2. n Gaige Webb of Scott City, who plans to operate a food truck to be known as Mr. Taco...
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Chambers host programs, ribbon-cuttings
(Business ~ 06/07/21)
The Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce's June Business After Hours membership gathering is scheduled for 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Community Partnership of Southeast Missouri headquarters, the former Cape Girardeau Police Department building, 40 S. Sprigg St. in Cape Girardeau...
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Food bank and veterans programs benefit from fundraising efforts
(Business ~ 06/07/21)
Tyson Foods is providing $1.5 million in grants to support hunger relief efforts in 38 communities where Tyson plants are located. The funding, announced last week, will be distributed among 26 hunger relief organizations in 15 states, including the Southeast Missouri Food Bank in Sikeston, Missouri...
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Wright has new position, Holloway renominated
(Business ~ 06/07/21)
Brady Wright has joined MRV Banks in Cape Girardeau as a commercial loan officer. Wright has worked in the banking industry for nearly five years, serving as a credit analyst and commercial loan officer before joining MRV Banks. Wright attended Southeast Missouri State University, where he was a standout baseball player and played on three Ohio Valley Conference championship teams...
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Bank president, Southeast Hospital receive recognitions
(Business ~ 06/07/21)
Independent Banker magazine, the monthly publication of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), has included Cape Girardeau banker Aaron Panton in its annual list of "40 Under 40 Emerging Community Bank Leaders." Panton is the regional bank president at The Bank of Missouri in Cape Girardeau...
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Sikeston group announces concert series entertainers
(Business ~ 06/07/21)
The Historic Downtown Sikeston merchants group has kicked off its 2021 Music in the Park Summer Concert Series. The series began last week in Sikeston's Legion Park and will continue from 6 to 8 p.m. each Friday evening through July, with the exception of July 2...
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Defense contracts bring billions to Missouri
(Business ~ 06/07/21)
A new report says Missouri companies received more than $14 billion in military defense contracts during fiscal year 2019, the latest year for which data is available. The report was released in late May by Gov. Mike Parson, who said military investment in Missouri strengths the state's economy and the nation's security...
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Amtrak doubling service between St. Louis, KC
(Business ~ 06/07/21)
Amtrak and the State of Missouri have announced they will restore the second of two daily round-trip trains on Amtrak's Missouri River Runner line between St. Louis and Kansas City. The additional rail service, starting July 19, is being funded by the state and the federal American Rescue Plan Act, which will keep both trains running through the end of the year...
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Scholarships, training available for software coding
(Business ~ 06/07/21)
Codefi, an entrepreneurial organization in Cape Girardeau focused on preparing people and businesses for the digital economy, is accepting applications for its Code Labs, an adult training program available in several communities in Southeast Missouri and West Kentucky...
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Community college partnering with marijuana grower
(Business ~ 06/07/21)
A partnership appears to be budding between a marijuana cultivator and a community college in Southern Illinois. Representatives of Shawnee Community College (SCC) in Ullin, Illinois, have been meeting with employees of aeriz, a cannabis cultivation firm planning an expansion in Union County, Illinois...
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'Conjuring' 3 tops 'A Quiet Place' 2 as moviegoing returns
(Entertainment ~ 06/07/21)
The domestic box office is getting back to normal, with moderate wins and sizable second weekend drops. After its triumphant first weekend, "A Quiet Place Part II" fell 59% at the North American box office, leaving room for the third movie in the "Conjuring" franchise to take first place. ...
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VP Harris visits Latin America to tackle migration, corruption
(National News ~ 06/07/21)
WASHINGTON -- Kamala Harris, on her first foreign trip as vice president, is looking to deepen diplomatic ties with Guatemala and Mexico, two Latin American nations key to the Biden administration's efforts to stem the spike in migration at the U.S. border...
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Global war on ransomware? Hurdles hinder U.S. response
(National News ~ 06/07/21)
RICHMOND, Va. -- Foreign keyboard criminals with scant fear of repercussions have paralyzed U.S. schools and hospitals, leaked highly sensitive police files, triggered fuel shortages and, most recently, threatened global food supply chains. The escalating havoc caused by ransomware gangs raises an obvious question: Why has the United States, believed to have the world's greatest cyber capabilities, looked so powerless to protect its citizens from these kind of criminals operating with near impunity out of Russia and allied countries?. ...
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Another COVID side effect: Many kids head to summer school
(National News ~ 06/07/21)
With her three teenagers vaccinated against COVID-19, Aja Purnell-Mitchell left it up to them to decide whether to go back to school during summer break. The decision was unanimous: summer school. "Getting them back into it, helping them socialize back with their friends, maybe meet some new people, and, of course, pick up the things that they lacked on Zoom," the Durham County, North Carolina, mother said, ticking off her hopes for the session ahead, which will be the first time her children have been in the classroom since the outbreak took hold in the spring of 2020.. ...
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Sen. Manchin's opposition clouds future of Democrats' elections bill
(National News ~ 06/07/21)
WASHINGTON -- A key Democratic senator says he will not vote for the largest overhaul of U.S. election law in at least a generation, leaving no plausible path forward for legislation his party and the White House have portrayed as crucial for protecting access to the ballot...
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States rebound from bleak forecasts to pass record budgets
(National News ~ 06/07/21)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Just a year ago, the financial future looked bleak for state governments as governors and lawmakers scrambled to cut spending amid the coronavirus recession that was projected to pummel revenue. They laid off state workers, threatened big cuts to schools and warned about canceling or scaling back building projects, among other steps...
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Out of the past: June 7
(Out of the Past ~ 06/07/21)
Cape Girardeau Fire Chief Robert Ridgeway has accepted a position in Gastonia, North Carolina, and will begin his new job July 8; Ridgeway, who came to Cape Girardeau in March 1993, will oversee seven fire stations and 130 employees in Gastonia; it is a step up from his current job, where he oversees 57 employees and four stations...
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Walmart to again close its U.S. stores on Thanksgiving Day
(National News ~ 06/07/21)
NEW YORK -- Walmart says it will close its U.S. stores on Thanksgiving for the second consecutive year. The nation's largest retailer and biggest private employer said Friday it wants to give workers time off for all their "hard work and dedication" to the company. It follows the decision by Target Corp., which announced in January it would be closing its stores again on the annual late-November turkey feast...
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Sponsored: What to Do if Your Dog is Stung by a Bee or Wasp
(Insiders Advice ~ 06/07/21)
If your dog is similar to mine, then he loves to chase butterflies and — unfortunately — bees! No matter how many times we try to teach our Hudson not to go after bees, it seems the temptation is just too much for our little guy. Every once in a while, and much to his dismay, a bee bites back...
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People we owe in Afghanistan
(Column ~ 06/07/21)
I think Joe Biden's decision to fully withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan is a mistake. It's mistaken on strategic and moral grounds. I hope I'm wrong. But when even administration officials, and experts who favor the decision, concede that pullout — of a very small contingent of troops — could result in a Taliban takeover it seems a safe bet it will happen...
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Biden revolution sputters before it even gets started
(Column ~ 06/07/21)
It's finally dawned on President Joe Biden he barely controls the House and the Senate. His remarks Tuesday taking a swipe at Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona were notable less for how they publicly aired an intraparty dispute than for their utter banality...
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Never let a plague go to waste
(Column ~ 06/07/21)
During America's first-ever national lockdown, thousands of unelected bureaucrats, as well as federal and state governments, assumed enormous powers not usually accorded to them. They picked and chose which businesses could stay open without much rationale. They sent the infected into nursing homes occupied by the weak and vulnerable...
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