Stories from Friday, April 24, 2015

I always figured I'd end up on a stage in LA, and this past weekend it came to fruition. Of course the big city lights were replaced by sunrises and sunsets, the movie stars were instead friendly Cajuns, and Santa Monica Boulevard was a cypress laden bayou. Northern Louisiana is home to one of, if not the best, crappie fishing lakes I've ever visited...

MALDEN, Mo. - The Malden Green Wave took home the top prize at its own nine-team two-day tournament Saturday. Malden beat Cooter 6-2 and Portageville 13-3 in five innings in the championship pool. Cooter beat Portageville 9-2 in the other championship pool game...

NEW MADRID -- It is an 80 percent scale replica of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., but Wiley Allred, commander of New Madrid County Memorial VFW Post 7183, believes it will have 100 percent of the impact. When the Traveling Wall is on display May 7 through 10 in New Madrid's Scott Street Park, Allred, who served in Vietnam in 1968-69, said he will carefully look through the 58,000 inscribed names of those who lost their lives in Vietnam...

"I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high" Luke 24:49 We have a big problem in the world today; we do not know how to wait. This has been going on for a long time, it is not a new problem, and it just seems to get worse instead of better. If we want something we want it now, not tomorrow or the next day we want it now. There are times though we have to wait...

The governor took time last week to sign into law two pieces of legislation designed to further strengthen Missouri's multi-billion-dollar agriculture industry. The governor signed the Dairy Revitalization Act (HB 259) that takes a three-pronged approach to support the state's struggling dairy industry. ...

This week, I voted to repeal the death tax and help put the American Dream back within reach for family farmers across southeast and southern Missouri. Since I was first elected to Congress, I have worked to get a vote on repealing the death tax for family farmers, including cosponsoring this important piece of legislation. ...