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Kansas City: From Cowtown to Titletown
Long before the Chiefs and Royals put Kansas City on the U.S. sports map, the city was known for something else—their stockyards.

Bob Ford
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Reflections: Consider the context
Only after reminding his readers the importance of contentment did he pen or dictate, “I can do all things through Christ who gives me...

Cynthia J. Thomas
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Reflections: Know about God, or worship God
This makes me wonder, in the earlier incident, was Nebuchadnezzar truly impacted, or merely impressed?

Cynthia J. Thomas
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Is Branson up or down for 2024?
According to information from the city of Branson, its Tourism Tax receipts for January through June were up 2.3% over the same period...

Gary J. Groman
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Dave Says: What's best for me?
Dear Dave, I was talking to some friends the other day about wills and trusts. They seemed to have a variety of opinions, so can you...

Dave Ramsey
3 min read


Memories from the Homestead: Remembering my home neighborhood of Flag, Missouri
Now that ya'll have an idea of the area that Flag covered, the townsite was up on the south side of Compton Ridge, just above ...

John Fullerton
4 min read


Herbology A to Z
The flower colors range from pink to purple, and the flowering period is July through August. The pretty plant grows, naturally, along ...

Jody Johnson Godfrey
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Been Thinkin' About...The canned ham key
Breakfast, dinner, supper. Brunch was a foreign thing that yuppies had while wearing polo shirts with white slacks or big, flappy sweaters..

Joshua Heston
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I'm so tired of deleting SPAM; don't do that, fry it!
The genius wasn’t the ingredients, it was that the product would be cooked in the classic shaped vacuumed can and then shipped globally.

Bob Ford
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Lock your car doors while driving in Branson
Panhandlers! When first coming to Branson my wife would often say, “This is the first time in a long time that I do not feel the need to...

Tim Kidwell
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Love and limiting beliefs
Your limiting beliefs about love are a combination of what you learned in childhood and an accumulation of your experiences...

Heather Haygood
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: North Arkansas visit
Many carvers do great work but few do great carvings so quickly and do so many of them. It took me an hour to look at all of them.

Larry Dablemont
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Stock Market Insights: The Great Rotation – tech stocks to small caps
Since July 10, the day the June Consumer Price Index (CPI) was released, the Magnificent 7 (Apple, Tesla, etc) group of large tech companies

Dr. Richard Baker
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Train Up a Child: Raising children – children need moral clarity
How are our children handling the civil unrest in our society? How are parents guiding them through one crisis after another in our present-

Pat Lamb
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Memories from the Homestead: 'Bells of Rosarita' featured an all-star cast of cowboy actors
Not only are Roy and his horse Trigger well featured, the familiar cast of Gabby Hayes, Dale Evans, with Bob Nolan and the Sons...

John Fullerton
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Been Thinkin' About...Ugly peaches all
It wasn't my first trip to the orchard. My mom and I would visit often, picking our way through the bags of grade A fruit and fancy...

Joshua Heston
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EntreLeadership: It gets easier, and more accurate, over time
Next, you’ve got two goals to work toward with your profits. By profits, I mean after you’ve paid household expenses.

Dave Ramsey
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A to Z Herbology
The plant is considered hardy and likes sun, does better in alkaline soil, but can survive in any soil.

Jody Johnson Godfrey
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Stock Market Insights: GM's shifting strategy – a lesson for US businesses
General Motors' earnings report was noticeably better this week than Wall Street’s estimates. It focused less on China...

Dr. Richard Baker
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Would you accept blood money?
Now you, a Christian, face the moral dilemma: “What to do?” If you refuse the “gift,” you probably will die. Is it wrong to benefit ...

Tim Kidwell
2 min read
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