Marshall, Missouri · Saturday, November 7, 2009
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Saline County's elected officials will continue to draw 100 percent of their base salaries with no cost-of-living adjustment, members of the Salary Commission for Saline County decided Thursday morning, Nov. 5. After...
From the looks of the large pile of cereal boxes, breakfast is the most important meal of the day at Marshall Senior Center, at least for now. The center is collecting hot and cold cereal, or monetary donations, for the 2009...
The past two weeks have seen three food drives of different sorts at Northwest Elementary School in Marshall. School Counselor Nancy Kleinschmidt asked Northwest Elementary students to bring in "spare Halloween candy" that...
The final section of the Miami river bridge will collapse into the Missouri River on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 7 a.m., according to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release. The section is being imploded in the last...
Good weather -- at last -- has allowed work on the Saline County Courthouse to get back up to speed. This week, in addition to more painting and masonry work, crews are beginning to disassemble the scaffolding that surrounds...
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Top 10 teams square off at Valley
Consider the hype coming to Marshall this weekend ESPN Lite. If Saturday's Heart of America Conference clash between the ninth-ranked Missouri Valley College and No. 10 MidAmerica Nazarene football teams isn't enough, some additional national attention is being thrown in...

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On the note of the whole debacle in ST Louis, I hope that EVERY one in Missouri would be sending letters to the paper, to the courts and to the prosecuters in that area to demand that these thugs be prosecuted and not allow the crime to be covered up as it is a huge embarassment on a national scale for our state that we would try to cover up something such as this

-- Posted by mrxray on Fri, Nov 6, 2009, at 11:43 PM

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain "acceptable health insurance coverage" and who choose not to pay the bill's new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

Add to this the wonderful example of the Obama/SEIU thug-like tactics used at the town hall meeting in Aug at ST Louis, I think we can all draw comparisons between the liberal/obama community organizing tactics and the tactics used by many of the dictators and even Hitler when they came to power. Direct attacks on the freedom of speech, both in the media and in policies such as the fairness doctrine and net neturality and even the thought police type policies like hate crime legislation can add to the comparisons. Heck, how many liberals are stating in public that they are jealous of Chavez and his control of the media?

I know someone will state that anyone comparing Obama to the likes of Hitler and Chavez is evil or wrong but I am not saying he wants to murder people in their homes, place them in detention camps or create a superior race. The comparison is strictly about the tactics used.

-- Posted by mrxray on Fri, Nov 6, 2009, at 11:42 PM
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If you voted against the Marshall school bond issue, what was your main reason?

 I want to see a larger buiding, K-5 or K-6
 I don't think traffic problems have been adequately addressed
 I thought the plan was rushed
 I thought the cost of the new school was too high
 I think property taxes are unfair because renters don't have to pay
 I think the old buildings can be fixed up
 I always vote against tax increases
 I disagree with the choice of location for the new school
 I don't trust the school board/administration
 Other
 I want neighborhood schools back before I support new schools

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Forecast
National Weather Service forecast for Marshall, Missouri:

Tonight
Mostly Clear
Low: 56
Tomorrow
Mostly Sunny
High: 73
Low: 56
Sunday
Partly Sunny
High: 75
Low: 54
Monday
Chance Rain Showers
High: 66
Low: 43
Tuesday
Partly Sunny
High: 56
Low: 37
Veterans
Mostly Sunny
High: 61
Thursday
Partly Sunny
High: 60
Low: 41

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Quakes
Most recently recorded earthquakes in the Central U.S. from the Center for Earthquake Research and Information (Times in Central):

Mag.WhenWhere
3.411/06 00:123 mi N of Dyersburg, TN
2.711/02 12:2711 mi WNW of Bearden, OK
2.511/02 09:5511 mi WSW of Shirley, AR
2.311/02 04:111 mi WNW of Mammoth Spring, AR
3.611/01 21:1688 mi NNW of Chateaugay, NY
1.511/01 21:101 mi ESE of South Cleveland, TN
0.811/01 19:341 mi ESE of South Cleveland, TN
2.011/01 19:321 mi ESE of South Cleveland, TN
0.911/01 11:091 mi ESE of South Cleveland, TN
3.011/01 11:011 mi ESE of South Cleveland, TN
2.410/30 20:512 mi WNW of Greenbrier, AR
2.810/29 06:3814 mi S of La Veta, CO

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