Stories from Thursday, December 13, 2012

Robert Joy GREENVILLE, Mo. -- Robert A. Joy, 78, of Poplar Bluff, formerly of Silva, passed away Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mr. Joy was born Sept. 2, 1934, at Hiram. He worked for the Greenville schools for many years and drove a school bus for more than 16 years. He attended Collins Chapel Church in Poplar Bluff. He also had worked for JW Woodworks in Fairdealing...

By MELISSA MILLER SEMO News Service CAPE GIREARDEAU, Mo. -- The numbers are in from Isle Casino Cape Girardeau's first full month of operations, released Tuesday by the Missouri Gaming Commission. Isle Casino Cape Girardeau had gross receipts, minus winnings paid, of $5.37 million in November; it paid 21 percent of that, $1.12 million, to the state in taxes. The company also paid to the state $414,310 in admission fees during its first full month of operations...

Twelve people will graduate in January from the Greater Poplar Bluff Area Chamber of Commerce 2012 Gateway to Leadership Program. Gateway to Leadership (GTL) started in 2009 and is an innovative community program designed to identify and motivate emerging and/or relocated leaders and to develop their potential for community leadership roles by acquainting them with the opportunities, realities and challenges of the community...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Cassidy Harris is heading back to the MSHSAA state championships. The Poplar Bluff sophomore punched her ticket Tuesday, qualifying in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 25.33 seconds. It was one of two team records to fall at the meet...

Mexico has a place for you In response to the union basher in your column. If you're so disgruntled about workers making a higher standard of living and want to boycott Made in America, sounds like you're either a Communist or just a narrow minded idiot. Don't like the U. S. A. pardner Mexico got a place for you...

By WALTER E. WILLIAMS Suppose you saw a building on fire. Would you seek counsel from the arsonist who set it ablaze for advice on how to put it out? You say, "Williams, you'd have to be a lunatic to do that!" But that's precisely what we've done: turned to the people who created our fiscal crisis to fix it. I have never read a better account of our doing just that than in John A. Allison's new book, "The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure."...

By MONA CHAREN I'm in the camp that believes Republicans have no choice but to agree to raise taxes on the top 2 percent of earners. The party has been successfully caricatured as the servant of the rich. This is unjust, yes, but justice is imperfect in this life. ...

Thelma Mae Dyle DEXTER, Mo. -- Thelma Mae Dyle, 67, of Dexter, Mo., died Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Visitation was from 2-4 p.m. Wednesday followed by a memorial service in Parlor A of Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter with Father David Doghne officiating...