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Suspended Animation - 5/5/08 >> Miscellaneous 4comics
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

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

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

Mercury has a new look >> Miscellaneous jhu-ps
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sun in 3-D: a new frontier in solar research >> Miscellaneous doshea
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

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

Tropical plant discovered in Newton County >> Miscellaneous mariwinn
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

Oklahoma museum receives large comics donation >> Miscellaneous mariwinn
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

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

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

Suspended Animation - 9/30/05 >> Miscellaneous 4comics
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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