http://www.joplinglobe.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:42:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_353003039 http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_353003039 If you're looking for a way to make your weekends seem longer, I have two words for you: dance recital. Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:40:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_353003041 http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_353003041 The Sinclair service station was torn down last year, and Travetti's restaurant was razed this summer. The long-awaited project to redesign and straighten the intersection at 20th Street and Range Line Road is about to begin. Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:31:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_352003219.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_352003219.html I’m not the hibernating type, normally. Bears can slumber away all winter and not miss a thing (I don’t mean the Chicago kind, though I’m starting to wonder), but I’ve always needed something to do, somewhere to see, some team to watch. Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:29:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_352002945.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_352002945.html We’re getting fatter. We’re staying married. We drink more water than beer. We get hurt in bed.I’m not just talking about Bill and Hillary Clinton. Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:13:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_351001349.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_351001349.html Jack James was a perfectionist in a game in which perfection is unattainable. A tenacious, even fiery competitor, he might mutter and fume over a missed putt that he thought he should have made or an errant approach. Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:30:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_350223046.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_350223046.html I was probably only 6 or 7 years old when I went on my first hunting trip back in the 1950s. Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:28:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_350222919.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_350222919.html I was at home, sitting by the fireplace, when I made the decision to go ahead with the plans Brad Cardwell and I had made for fishing the next morning. Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:27:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_350222805.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_350222805.html Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:24:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_350222540.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_350222540.html Last weekend, I got the opportunity to do something I will probably never get to do again. I was the grand marshal of a Christmas parade. Sort of. Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:23:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_350222431.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_350222431.html We do a lot of yelling at our house. It’s not so much that we’re mad at each other as it is we’re lazy. Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:14:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_350221537.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_350221537.html In the summer of 1984, I had the pleasure of testifying at the tax system hearings held by the U.S. Treasury Department and conducted at different locations across the United States. Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:09:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_350215935.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_350215935.html Few issues reveal the souls of those in power more than the fate of Medicaid, a monstrous but necessary program begun in the fervor of the 1960s and the push for the Great Society. Fri, 15 Dec 2006 23:43:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_349234354.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_349234354.html When Seth Wilson was once asked how he wanted to be remembered, the venerable dean emeritus of Ozark Christian College replied that he would like people to say that he was willing to be used in the service of God. Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:36:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_349011539 http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_349011539 Lions' fans rejoice. With the help of the MIAA and technology from Penn Atlantic, a communications and media company, Missouri Southern State University has the privilege of breaking new ground, along with schools throughout the conference. Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:35:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_349011546 http://www.joplinglobe.com/columns/local_story_349011546 I had been anticipating the question from our daughter, Emma, for some time.