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Dave Says: On one condition...
But if you’re determined to do it your way, I’ll give you a couple of guidelines. Number one, don’t wipe out your savings...

Dave Ramsey
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Been Thinkin' About...This delta space between
This rain is heavier now, the sky darker. Oily storm drains fill as the rainwater runs down old French mansard roofs...

Joshua Heston
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Love and fear
There are only two emotions: love and fear. All positive emotions come from love; all negative emotions come from fear. -Elisabeth...

Heather Haygood
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Is your child's soul for sale?
But the offers continue; “How about $100? $500? $1,000?” Are these offers any less preposterous?

Tim Kidwell
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Stock Market Insights: Market drop - time to check your risk level
Historically, stocks tend to be a bust in August. July was the eighth positive month out of the last nine, but it was quickly forgotten...

Dr. Richard Baker
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Memories from the Homestead: Sparky, our first area tour guide
There are not a lot of details known about Pearl's beginnings. She was not from around here originally.

John Fullerton
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Train Up a Child: Raising children - we need more than soap!
What a challenge we have to teach our children to be careful in choosing their words!

Pat Lamb
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: The big bass
I don’t know for sure how big he was, but I saw him very well, and I thought I had him whipped.

Larry Dablemont
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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
4 min read


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
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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
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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
4 min read
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