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| Suspended Animation - 5/5/08 >> Miscellaneous | 4comics |
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Alter Ego #75/ pp.96/ now $5.91 (15% off cover price)/published by Twomorrows Publishing/various writers and artists/
Alter Ego is a periodical mostly about the history of super-hero comic book ...more |
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| MSIPC announces top 2008 pianists >> Miscellaneous | ghunt |
| Avan Yu of Canada is the Grand Prize Winner of the 2008 Missouri Southern International Piano Competition. Yu was selected following the Senior Division finals Friday night, and will receive a cash ...more |
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| Nixon's rally statements labeled false >> Miscellaneous | robinson |
| JEFFERSON CITY - Gov. Matt Blunt's spokesman Rich Chrismer issued the following statement in response to false assertions made today by Attorney General Jay Nixon at a union rally regarding the Blunt ...more |
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| Mercury has a new look >> Miscellaneous | jhu-ps |
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All seven scientific instruments worked flawlessly when NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft made its first flyby of Mercury after a journey of more than 2.2 billion miles and three and a half years. The ...more |
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| Off your butt; create a disaster plan >> Miscellaneous | robinson |
| Are you one of the ones who have procrastinated in developing a tornado disaster plan? Gov. Matt Blunt in the wake of the recent string of tornadoes that hit Southwest Missouri wants to remind ...more |
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| Mrs. Missouri contest seeks contestants >> Miscellaneous | staff |
| Mrs. America, Inc., a Santa-Monica based organization, is looking for married women to compete for the title of Mrs. Missouri. Judging involves an interview and wearing a swimsuit and evening gown. ...more |
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| Take part in the candidate mashup on the Internet >> Miscellaneous | admin2 |
| The Huffington Post in partnership with Yahoo! and Slate has announced its sponsorship of the first-ever online-only presidential candidate mashup. Moderated by Charlie Rose, the event set for ...more |
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| I-35W bridge collapse deemed a watershed event >> Miscellaneous | kcarlson |
| COLUMBIA, MO - The collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in downtown Minneapolis recently brought the structural safety of the nation's aging overpasses into tragic focus. University of ...more |
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| Be on the look-out for the spotted knapweed >> Miscellaneous | d-burton |
| Spotted knapweed, a weed that produces a toxin via the roots that kills plants within its root zone, has been showing up in the Ozarks with the potential to be a major problem by displacing native ...more |
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| Phony e-mail offers new Internet Explorer 7 >> Miscellaneous | terri-d |
| JEFFERSON CITY - Director of Public Safety Mark James wants to ensure that Missourians do not fall victim to the latest Internet scheme. James has reported that several states including Missouri ...more |
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| Two arrested near Central City Rd. and West 7th >> Miscellaneous | dwalrod |
| Travis Lee Moss, 41, and Misty York, 27, both of Joplin were arrested by duputies of the Jasper County Sheriff's Office and Jasper County Drug Task Force.
While conducting an undercover drug ...more |
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| Sun in 3-D: a new frontier in solar research >> Miscellaneous | doshea |
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An artist's rendition of the STEREO spacecraft panels suggests its path into orbit. The twin observatories will fly as mirror images of each other to obtain unique "stereo" views of the sun's ...more |
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| Johns Hopkins' discoveries in a nutshell >> Miscellaneous | admin2 |
| Johns Hopkins University (JHU) regularly sends us reports describing research with which they are connected. Here is a sampling of what we have received that we thought would be interesting to our ...more |
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| Tropical plant discovered in Newton County >> Miscellaneous | mariwinn |
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The first sighting of Impatiens pallida for Newton County has been made. Dr. Stephen L. Timme, admittedly while not really looking for it, discovered it on June 26, 2006, along the wooded trail on ...more |
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| Oklahoma museum receives large comics donation >> Miscellaneous | mariwinn |
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Michael Vance, noted author and curator of the Oklahoma Cartoonist's Collection, displays the newest additions.
The Toy and Action Figure Museum, home of the Oklahoma Cartoonist's Collection, ...more |
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| Citizen questions loss of freedoms >> Miscellaneous | mariwinn |
| James Carter of Harrisonville has sent us a copy of a letter he has delivered to his Senators Kit Bond and Jim Talent and Rep. Ike Skelton. In it he has called attention to how U.S. policy ostensibly ...more |
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| SheSource is launched by The White House Project >> Miscellaneous | mariwinn |
| The White House Project recently released the results of an 8-month study of guest appearances by women on the Sunday political talk shows. Their findings reveal that women represent only 14% of ...more |
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| Suspended Animation - 9/30/05 >> Miscellaneous | 4comics |
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Jim Lange's cartoons pub. by The Daily Oklahoman (1994)/ 204 pp./$20.00
Jim Lange has drawn more than 17,000 cartoons that most Oklahomans considered a "gem," but some ...more |
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| Telemarketer-solicited charity calls piss me off >> Miscellaneous | mariwinn |
| My phone doesn't disturb me very often these days. The number is on the State of Missouri's No Call List, the brainchild of Attorney General Jay Nixon. So, when it rang the other day with a ...more |
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| CODEPINK calls for voter reforms >> Miscellaneous | jeanb |
| Many citizens believe that our electoral system is in dire need of an overhaul from unreliable electronic voting machines and millions of uncounted ballots to partisan secretaries of state and ...more |
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| Blogging is mainstream now >> Miscellaneous | d-burton |
| Personal web blogs may challenge the news media,” said Chris Dean, coordinator of University of Missouri Extension’s Tri-Lakes TCRC in Reeds Spring, MO, back in October of 2003.
It was a bold ...more |
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| Tips for genealogy research provided >> Miscellaneous | mariwinn |
| Where to Start Family History in This Technological Age--
Perhaps, no hobby or research effort has benefited more from the Internet than genealogy, according to David Burton, civic ...more |
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| Like 45-rpms, floppies are becoming antiques >> Miscellaneous | d-burton |
| Floppy disk drives will soon be history on computers from Dell and other manufacturers. Apple's iMac computers eliminated floppy disks when they were introduced nearly five years ago. Now Dell plans ...more |
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| Blogs--the new technology >> Miscellaneous | d-burton |
| One of the most interesting trends to surface on the Internet is known as the blogging, according to Chris Dean, coordinator of University Outreach and Extension's Tri-Lakes TCRC in Reeds Spring. ...more |
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| Restaurant review: Osteria Gran Sasso >> Miscellaneous | mariwinn |
| Just steps from the southern corner of 4th and North Elm in Pittsburg is the location of an old mill that has been converted into a family restaurant called Osteria Gran Sasso. Operated by two ...more |
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| Links >> Miscellaneous | mariwinn |
| Joplin Links
City of Joplin
Joplin Police Department
Joplin Chamber of Commerce
Joplin Convention and Visitors Bureau
Joplin Public Library
AIRFEST Joplin
Joplin Little Theatre
Joplin Museum ...more |
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| Quote of the moment >> Miscellaneous | anonymou |
| I know there is something like a cold fish, but when a person like that starts to warm up a bit, he still stinks.
"You read about all these terrorists, most of them came here legally, but they ...more |
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