Opinion

Speak Out: This country and Missouri have been taking a beating from Covid and we are not doing what we should to try and slow it down. I can go to town and into stores and see almost no one wearing a mask. We know that masks work and yet too many are not wearing them and not taking COVID seriously. ...

Speak Out, Every time you make an online purchase take a dollar bill out of your pocket, wad it up, and just throw it somewhere. Now imagine how many dollar bills would be laying around if everyone in Ripley County did this every time they make an online purchase. That’s exactly what Ripley Countians are doing by voting down the use tax...

Speak Out, First I just want to say, our country has gotten a little crazy, hasn’t it? But, anyway I’d like to comment on this voting. I’m almost 60-years-old and I’ve voted all my life and I’ve always heard people say, oh it don’t do no good to vote, they put in there who they want. ...

Very, Very Helpful Speak Out, If you are a veteran and can not get through to any of the VA offices, I recommend Jason Smith’s Washington office, 202-225-4404, they have been very, very helpful to me and my family. Thank you. Get This Town Cleaned Up...

Cannot Stick With Them Speak Out, Hey, I do not care how my parents or grandparents voted. I care that every candidate of that party are running on the grounds of allowing abortions, the death of unborn babies. To be the leader of our country, I cannot in good conscience stick with them, no...