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Stock Market Insights: Driving the economy, finding the right balance for growth
Much like a golf cart navigating the course, the economy is constantly adjusting to changing conditions.

Dr. Richard Baker
3 min read


Reader’s Corner: Garden Time at Kimberling Area Library
These FREE sessions are held in the Community Room at Kimberling Area Library, 45 Kimberling Blvd., Kimberling City...

Cynthia J. Thomas
1 min read


Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: The one that got away
But it is rivers that I love to fish and last week when the temperature rose into the 70s, I took a trip to a river...

Larry Dablemont
3 min read
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Memories from the Homestead: Mary Hemphill recalls the beginnings of Crane, Missouri [Part 1 of 2]
The town now known as Crane, Missouri, had its beginnings under another name. In the early 1880s, the little group of homes...

John Fullerton
3 min read


Is Branson in an economic war for its very survival?
To most, losing a competition results in a kumbaya moment where the losers congratulate each other after a football game...

Gary J. Groman
2 min read


Been Thinkin’ About…The bitter March wind
The bitter March wind stirs the red oak leaves on the hillside, leaf litter heavy in the late afternoon. The sky has cleared, temperature...

Joshua Heston
3 min read


Stock Market Insights: Tariffs' impact on market volatility
Wall Street’s fear gauge, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), an options-based indicator, suddenly spiked to 24, up from this year's low of 14

Dr. Richard Baker
3 min read


Dave Says: Determination and hard work
Truth be told, the vast majority of things you see online and in late-night infomercial presentations are scams.

Dave Ramsey
2 min read


Reflections: Slow down and think
Sometimes a Proverb seems particularly appropriate for my frame of mind or something I’m going through—or a whole series of somethings....

Cynthia J. Thomas
2 min read


Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Slaughter!
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is a partner in the slaughter. The MDC gets hundreds of thousands of dollars from USDA to carry out....

Larry Dablemont
3 min read


Breakfast at Tiffany’s: Which am I?
There came a time when I was a young adult that my parents moved away and I moved into the home I had grown up in.

Tiffany Gravett
2 min read
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Doolittle delivers Roosevelt’s message [part 2 of 3]
Emperor Hirohito and Army Commanding General Tojo had promised the Japanese people an assault on mainland Japan was impossible.

Bob Ford
4 min read


Dave Says: Preparing for the future
Dear Dave, I’ve been listening to your show, and following the Baby Steps, for about a year. But I received some news from a family...

Dave Ramsey
2 min read


Been Thinkin’ About…Underworld gains
There are no trophies. No suburban dad stories of the glory days, although I still smile when I remember outrunning the town's basketball ..

Joshua Heston
4 min read
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For everything America stands for, we must attack! [Part 1 of 3]
There was disbelief in Washington D.C., too, as President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed war on Japan the day after the attack...

Bob Ford
4 min read


Stock Market Insights: Emerging opportunities in international stocks
U.S. stocks are big and have a great track record, but they are expensive when you compare the S&P 500 valuations...

Dr. Richard Baker
3 min read


Memories from the Homestead: Remembering the Old Branson School
The school site was a part of the Henry Berry homestead, as he ave the acre of land to the Branson school board.

John Fullerton
3 min read


Reflections: The fool says what?
A recent venture into the wisdom of Proverbs landed me in chapter 26, which opens with several statements about fools and how fools...

Cynthia J. Thomas
2 min read


Reader’s Corner: Paddington Bear
Britain was known as a welcoming refuge for suffering people, but still, what a sight this must have been for onlookers in London!

Cynthia J. Thomas
2 min read


Yester Year’s Echoes: The Branson does not own the name ‘Branson’ Election
At the May 29 meeting of the AE Board of Aldermen, they voted unanimously to rescind the current program, which the BE Board initiated...

Gary J. Groman
4 min read
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