Opinion
It was early, but then most folks living in the rural Southwest Missouri Ozark County of McDonald got up early. It was too early for the county's prosecuting a…
by By Stan Fine, Columnist September 22, 2022Les Brown once eloquently expressed, "Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overco…
by By John Newby, Columnist September 22, 2022Les Brown once eloquently said, "Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome th…
by By John Newby, Columnist September 15, 2022I suppose one could look at me as a summer person. I like those hot summer months when the hours of daylight have lengthened far beyond those cold and dreary d…
by By Stan Fine, Columnist September 8, 2022Mickey Drexler recently said, "People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for."
by By John Newby, Columnist September 8, 2022Paul Arden once said, "Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with …
by By John Newby, Columnist September 1, 2022Knowing that her life was coming to an end, the young woman sat in the Joplin (Mo.) stone building with pen in hand and scribed what most later acknowledged wa…
by By Stan Fine, Columnist August 25, 2022Germany Kent once said, "We are all on the road to success. Some people just act like they want it more than others."
by By John Newby, Columnist August 25, 2022Germany Kent once said, "You cannot expect people with small ideas to understand, accept, or appreciate your big visions."
by By John Newby, Columnist August 18, 2022This is a love story, well, partly a love story because there are two tales I would like to share with you. One is about the love a man and a woman had for one…
by Stan Fine Columnist August 11, 2022Aesop once said, "We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."
by By John Newby, Building Main Street, Not Wall Street August 11, 2022We have all seen many kinds of clouds -- rain clouds, white puffy clouds, clouds with rainbows, even clouds of gnats and steam clouds from an old-fashioned loc…
by By David Cater, Star-Gazing August 4, 2022Let me share a great quote I saw this past week. Andre Gide said, "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
by By John Newby, Building Main Street, not Wall Street August 4, 2022I believe that I have a frailty common to all of my species. My mind doesn't have the capacity to comprehend the term eternal. Oh, I know the definition of the…
by Stan Fine Columnist July 28, 2022Debbie Ford once appropriately said, "I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds."
by By John Newby “Building Main Street, not Wall Street” July 28, 2022