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From Bellefontaine Habilitation Center to labor, Missouri’s Walsh known for protecting her district (AUDIO)
A veteran Missouri lawmaker who’s finishing her 16th and final year in Jefferson City is most proud of her successful team effort to prevent the Bellefontaine Habilitation Center in her district from closing.
State Sen. Gina Walsh, D-Bellefontaine Neighbors, presides over the Missouri Senate in Jefferson City on May 13, 2020 (file photo courtesy of Harrison Sweazea at Senate Communications)
The facility is operated by the Missouri Division of Developmental Disabilities, which is part of the state Department of Mental Health (DMH). State Sen. Gina Walsh, D-Bellefontaine Neighbors, notes former Governor Matt Blunt (R) and some others proposed closing the facility in 2005.
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Love: Missouri Prime Beef Packers to open beef processing plant in southwest Missouri (AUDIO)
A veteran state lawmaker and cattleman has announced that a company will open a new beef processing plant in January in southwest Missouri’s Pleasant Hope, which is between Springfield and Bolivar.
State Rep. Warren Love, R-Osceola, speaks on the Missouri House floor in Jefferson City on April 11, 2019 (file photo courtesy of Tim Bommel at House Communications)
State Rep. Warren Love, R-Osceola, praises the decision by Missouri Prime Beef Packers, saying the Show-Me State ranks second or third in beef cow numbers.
Jan. 22, 1942 ~ Dec. 4, 2020
Larry was born in Portage Ville, Missouri in the family barn to Heck and Nadine Yardley. He grew up around the Poplarbluff and Freemont areas. When he was 12 the family moved to Nucla, Colorado. He graduated eighth grade in Nucla soon after going to work in the uranium mines to help support the family and help raise his younger siblings after his father was killed in a mining accident in Nucla, Colorado. In 1961, he met Paula Smith. They were married in October 1963. To that marriage they had three children: Deborah (Norm) Hall, Barbara (Boyd) Millsaps, Lonnie (Heidi) Yardley; eight grandkids, numerous great grandkids and numerous nieces and nephews.
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A truck drives along State Hwy. A outside of Wardell, Mo. past a sign expressing support for the re-election of President Donald Trump as seen on Monday, Dec. 7, 2020. While Trump easily won the state of Missouri in 2020, Pemiscot County, where Wardell is located, is the area of the state where Trump saw his largest gains in support as compared to 2016. Photo by David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com David Carson
BRAGG CITY, Mo. â The road to Bragg City is out, but a crew is busy there now, installing a $300,000 bridge over a deep ditch to get local traffic moving easily again. Other than flooding the farm fields for duck season, which draws hunters from all over, the project seems like the first burst of money and jobs to hit the area in a long time.