http://www.joplinindependent.comThe Alternative News Source of Joplin MissouriTue, 30 Nov 1999 04:20:00 -0700en-usCopyright 2011, joplinindependent.comhttp://www.joplinindependent.comhttp://www.joplinindependent.com/pics/rss_image.jpg901002013-06-09 16:01:05http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/staff1370815265http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/staff1370815265 The main gallery of the Spiva Center for the Arts is featuring "Artworkers: Creativity and America," interactive art that illustrates how Americans view themselves and the country in which they live. Sponsored by Eagle Picher Technologies, LLC and conceived by Kansas City artist Hugh Merrill, the [...]2013-06-09 12:30:22http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/staff1370802622http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/staff1370802622The Warrensburg Community Band under the direction of Dr. Russell Coleman will be the entertainment of Pro Musica's 33rd Annual Joplin PoPs. The open-air concert of light classics, show tunes and patriotic music, sponsored by the Carlin Team of Keller Williams Realty, will take place on Friday, [...]2013-06-07 13:28:44http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/mariwinn1370633324http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/mariwinn1370633324If it keeps anyone from having a limb blown off, we say to the government, snoop all you want. We have nothing to hide, and while you are at it try to stop one of those major drug shipments. Not that we actually wanted to volunteer to make this viewpoint known, but Robert M. Shettles of Liberty, [...]2013-06-07 10:59:44http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/blanders1370624384http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/blanders1370624384 is the theme of the Greater Ozarks Pridefest, an event that increases awareness of the LGBTQ community to eliminate homophobia, transphobia and discrimination. The community-wide celebration will take place from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, June 15, 2013, at Park Central Square in downtown [...]2013-06-07 08:58:31http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/staff1370617111http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/staff1370617111The wait is over. Schifferdecker Family Aquatic Center will open tomorrow, Saturday, June 8, 2013, and continue with daily hours from 1-6 p.m. Featured are a lazy river, lap pool, five slides, a deck mounted play structure and water sprays. The project was made possible through funding from the [...]2013-06-06 16:49:37http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/staff1370558977http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/staff1370558977Trina McDonald cuddles service dog Shea. To the editor: I traveled to Washington, D.C., for the first time in my life to carry my message of removing prosecutions of military sexual assaults from the military chain of command, with the support of more than 215,000 MoveOn members and [...]2013-06-05 22:21:10http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/mariwinn1370492470http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/mariwinn1370492470It probably won't be before April 12, 2038, that the public will know why or what the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National Security Agency (NSA) hope to gain from court-ordered domestic call detail records of communications giant, Verizon Business Network Services, Inc. That is [...]2013-06-05 21:00:24http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/katie-g1370487624http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/katie-g1370487624Women are 37 percent more likely to have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) than men and now account for more than half of all deaths attributed to COPD in our nation. The American Lung Association’s latest health disparity report, “Taking Her Breath Away: The Rise of COPD in Women,” [...]2013-06-05 20:37:31http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/wlewis1370486251http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/wlewis1370486251Participants of the Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce and owners and employees of Amplify Gymnastics of Joplin gather for a ribbon-cutting. The U.S. Small Business Administration presents two disaster recovery awards each year. Recipients this year are several Joplin businessmen. Joplin Area Chamber [...]2013-06-04 16:35:34http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/mpotter1370385334http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/mpotter1370385334NEW YORK – Black people are 3.7 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than white people despite comparable usage rates, according to a report released today (June 4, 2013) by the American Civil Liberties Union. The report also found that marijuana possession arrests now make up [...]2013-06-04 15:40:17http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/rmclean1370382017http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/rmclean1370382017In 1974 daredevil Evil Knievel attempted a record breaking jump with his "skycycle" over the Snake River Canyon. Unfortunately his parachute deployed prematurely resulting in the first of his two series of crashes during the Wide World of Sports series. He survived only because he landed on rocks [...]2013-06-04 11:53:51http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/jkennedy1370368431http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/jkennedy1370368431 by Jack L. Kennedy The title of the thin little volume from AuthorHouse seemed intriguing. How to Stay Married for at Least 100 Years offers some humor, a lot of advice, and a “preachy” tone that some will find welcome, others, perhaps, a bit simplistic. Author Darren Darrel Smith’s [...]2013-06-04 08:20:49http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/staff1370355649http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/staff1370355649JEFFERSON CITY - Gov. Jay Nixon recently signed House Bill 256, which reinstates important public safety exemptions to Missouri's Sunshine Law. These exemptions, which expired at the end of 2012, instituted immediately, help prevent the release of security plans and procedures that protect [...]2013-05-30 12:23:04http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/staff1369938184http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/staff1369938184Theatre buffs are encouraged to support the Joplin Little Theatre, the oldest continuously running community theatre west of the Mississippi as it enters its 74th anniversary season. The JLT's 2013-2014 season includes: Sept. 25-29, 2013 - Gypsy, a musical based on the memoirs of striptease [...]2013-05-30 09:07:58http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/wlewis1369926478http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/wlewis1369926478St. Louis-based Express Scripts, one of the country’s largest pharmacy benefit companies, is looking for people to fill up to 100 jobs it will soon bring to the Joplin area. The Fortune 100 company will hire customer service representatives to work from home after training at the Joseph [...]2013-05-24 14:07:32http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/fsmith1369426052http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/fsmith1369426052To the editor: Mary Ann and I have known Randy Turner personally for 10 years or more, have met his very nice parents in Newtonia, and I have several mutual friends. Have never heard anything but good about him, and his students have always seemed to hold him in highest esteem as a teacher. [...]2013-05-24 13:18:35http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/jkennedy1369423115http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/jkennedy1369423115 by Jack L. Kennedy Politics, power, intrigue, pressures past and present often make good reading, when expressed by a good author. That certainly is the case in the intellectually and physically well-travelled hands of Len Camarda through The Seventh Treasure (Author House). The plot [...]2013-05-23 21:21:15http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/c-brown1369365675http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/c-brown1369365675NEOSHO – Crowder College is offering a basic motorcycle rider course as part of its community education programming. It provides a foundation of knowledge and skills for people who have never ridden, as well as those who have ridden up to 10,000 miles. Offered to participants ages 15 ½ or older [...]2013-05-19 10:04:39http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/ewoolsey1368979479http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/ewoolsey1368979479AMERICAN PRIDE… WHERE DID IT GO? During my childhood, there existed an almost tangible awareness of pride in being “American!” In our classrooms, from our pulpits, on main street, and in our homes… there was an overwhelming sense of “accomplishment” in what we had achieved as a people, what we [...]2013-05-11 18:26:22http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/staff1368318382http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/staff1368318382Attendees gather near a dinner table at Stone Throw's 2012 New Year's Eve celebration at the theatre in Carthage. The 2013-14 season for the Stone's Throw Dinner Theatre has been announced subject to changes. Performances scheduled are: The schedule of shows for the 2013-14 season [...]2013-05-11 11:08:58http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/bhenders1368292138http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/bhenders1368292138This summer the Joplin Police Department will be presenting a series of free safety classes for children ages 4-8. The interactive classes taught by a Joplin Police officer will begin at 1 p.m. in the Children’s Center at the Joplin Public Library, 3rd and Main. They will last approximately 30 [...]2013-04-26 23:03:15http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/jjudge1367038995http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/jjudge1367038995KANSAS CITY – Doctors from BluePearl Veterinary Partners are urging people to stop using and return or discard certain Natura Pet Products food and treats after the company issued a recall due to potential salmonella contamination on April 17, 2013. According to a press release issued by Natura [...]2013-04-11 14:21:01http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/s-wade1365711661http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/s-wade1365711661Keeping the environment clean, creating beautiful art and helping people with disabilities go hand-in-hand at a nonprofit organization in Springfield, MO. Art Inspired provides secure document destruction that employs people with developmental disabilities who turn the waste into unique works of [...]2013-03-25 17:52:59http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/lynn-c1364255579http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/lynn-c1364255579by Ann Craig-Cinnamon I remember vividly as a young child being so scared of my bedroom and of nighttime that I conjured up a way to calm myself. I checked every nook and cranny in my room. Then I rechecked them. I looked under my bed…behind my mirror..in the closet and ALWAYS in the same [...]2013-03-15 14:09:14http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/ewoolsey1363378154http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/ewoolsey1363378154To the editor: I now make the request that all interested parties... especially Missouri teachers... become proactive in guaranteeing the future well-being of the Public School Retirement System. Since the Public School Retirement System has remained solidly solvent while other state [...]2013-02-26 12:35:27http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/mariwinn1361907327http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/mariwinn1361907327Apparently good weather goes hand-in-hand with high life expectancy. So says the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), the popular over 50 retirement organization and interest group that circulated a new list of best places in which to retire. The list promoted by MoneyRates.com, a [...]2013-02-25 21:01:12http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/jjudge1361851272http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/jjudge1361851272KANSAS CITY – Doctors from BluePearl Veterinary Partners are urging people to stop using and return or discard certain bags of Hy-Vee dog food after the company issued a voluntary recall throughout the Midwest on Friday (Mar 1). According to a press release issued by Hy-Vee Inc., the company is [...]2013-01-13 15:50:20http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/creyn1358117420http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/creyn1358117420Quilt entries are being sought for The GLOC Quilt Guild's 2013 Quilt Show "Artisans on Display." This year's show will be held July 19-20, 2013, at the Grove Community Center located at 104 W. 3rd St. Special features of the show include: an Artisan Shoppe, a Saturday Bed Turning, door [...]2012-12-23 11:12:58http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/staff1356286378http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/staff1356286378Mara Verheyden-Hilliard and Carl Messineo, pictured, claim to be labeled "the constitutional sheriffs for a new protest generation" by the Washington Post. They founded the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, according to their mission statement, to defend human and civil rights as secured by law, [...]2012-12-20 18:42:59http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/jval1356054179http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/jval1356054179WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has updated the rule for pathogens in drinking water, including setting a limit for the bacteria E. coli to better protect public health. The Revised Total Coliform Rule ensures that all of the approximately 155,000 public water systems [...]2012-10-20 10:06:18http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/jval1350749178http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/jval1350749178WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently launched a new app and website to help people find information on the condition of thousands of lakes, rivers and streams across the United States from their smart phone, tablet or desktop computer. Available here, the How’s My [...]2012-06-14 12:05:50http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/staff1339697150http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/staff1339697150JEFFERSON CITY – Legislation was signed into law this week by Gov. Jay Nixon that will allow cell phone users to block unwanted telemarketing calls and text messages. Co-sponsored by 154 Representatives, included Rep. Mike Kelley (R-Lamar), the bill (HB 1549) will allow cellular phone users to add [...]