Stories from Wednesday, April 17, 2013

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- From Tom Paine's "Common Sense" to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," American history is replete with examples of printed words accelerating social justice. ...

By KYLE YORK EDITOR's NOTE: Kyle York of Poplar Bluff is a senior at the University of Missouri- Columbia, studying sociology and political science. History seldom gives us our perfect teams; the yin and yang partnerships that bring lasting peace and stability, our Roosevelt and Churchill, our Thatcher and Reagan. ...

It's halfway through the legislative session and there's still much work left to be done on behalf of the people of our state. My colleagues and I still have to pass the state's operating budget for Fiscal Year 2014 and numerous bills await the attention of lawmakers before they can be approved and sent to the governor for his signature. ...

Roger Clay DEXTER, Mo. -- Roger Allen Clay, 57, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., formerly of Sikeston, Mo., died Saturday, April 13, 2013, at The Manor in Poplar Bluff, Mo. Private family services will be held at a later date. Watkins & Sons Funeral Service of Dexter, Mo., is in charge of arrangements...

The Agee Community Club met at Ryan's on Thursday, April 11th, 2013. Cathy Womack was the April hostess and club president, who opened the meeting with the club motto. Orel Smith offered the invocation. Roll call was answered with three things members had learned in their life. ...

Ted Broege Sr. Ted Broege Sr., 57, of Harviell, Mo., died Saturday, April 13, 2013, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are pending and will be announced by Cotrell Funeral Service in Poplar Bluff.