Saturday, April 10, 2021
Verona use tax fails, Aurora school bond issue passes
Tuesdays election resolved numerous bi-county races, some by the slightest of margins, in a year with many unopposed races.
County clerks tallied one of the lowest voter turnouts for Aprils vote in recent years. The Lawrence County count ran 9.13 percent with a little over 2,116 votes. Barry County did even more poorly, mustering only 6.7 percent turnout or 1,483 votes. A lack of contests at the municipal level contributed to apathy among voters.
Barry County cities
Purdy
The real change occurring from Tuesdays election will take place Monday night at the Purdy City Council meeting. West Three-term Ward Alderman Brian Bowers will resign to take the oath of office as mayor
26% just since june. the news this morning from the u.s. agriculture department, the harvest for corn and soybeans will be the worst we ve seen in many, many years which means prices will go up some more. the bottom line, heather, that food price inflation is right very close to it. here it comes. you could see it coming. heather: stu, those prices going up. beef prices are going down. why is that? that is an anomaly. beef prices are going down because cattle in america for beef are fed on corn. corn is very expensive. farmers know they will have to pay a fortune to feed the cattle in the fall and winter. so i hate to say it, heather. they re slaughtering them now so the supply of beef on the market is very, very strong. so prices of beef are falling now. heather: i like that word anomaly. you mentioned corn, going back to that, are we still going to burn 40% of the corn crop for ethanol and