With our students on break we had limited coverage this week. We have coverage on sheriffs’ salaries, proposals to post the 10 commandments in schools and efforts across the country, including Missouri, to limit cellphone use in public schools.

Fifty-two years ago, back in the days when common sense could actually be spoken in public and people would look at whatever was said using critical thinking, intelligence and without an extreme …

There are many places to find information these days. Most government entities have websites and social media pages, places where they can deliver information the public needs to know. My web browser’s toolbar is chock-full of them, from courts and law enforcement to weather and wrecks to name just a few.

If a box turtle were to accept the challenge, leaving its home territory and race the United States Postal Service in delivering this newspaper to the St. Louis market, including Chesterfield or Fenton, who do you think would win?

On the Move MEXICO — Don Munsch has joined the Mexico Ledger as general manager and editor. The new position will help grow the newspaper’s print and online circulation, as well as be responsible for overseeing the newspaper’s office and directing news coverage.

Membership applications are considered by the MPA Board of Directors at its first meeting after a notice has been published in at least three issues of the MPA Bulletin, eBulletin and/or the Association’s magazine, Missouri Press News. The next meeting of the MPA Board is scheduled for June 6, 2025, in Hermann.

On the Move Joplin — Katherine Miller has been named publisher of The Joplin Globe. The appointment is somewhat of a homecoming for Miller, who is a native of Joplin and began her career …

Virginia Anne (Fairchild) Oehlschlager, 42, died March 27, 2025, at her home and surrounded by family.

Jane Ellen White Brown, 94, a newspaper columnist, reporter and ad salesperson, died March 13, 2025.

Joe Sullivan, 79, a career newsman from Southwest Missouri, died Feb. 27, 2025, after a short illness.

After a dreary drive in the rain to Cape Girardeau on Jan. 30 for the Southeast Missouri Press Association’s Sales Boot Camp, I was quickly invigorated when I saw the passion the 30 attendees …

February is Black History Month and Missouri Press Foundation has multiple Newspaper in Education features you can use this month. Topics available to your newspaper include features on the …