The city of Belton says it currently has a record number of building permit applications, and four years ago it was named the second fastest-growing community in Missouri.
For more than a century, Carry Nation's temperance-era rampages have inspired mockery. What we've missed, though, is the story of a disenfranchised person getting fed up and demanding more from the leaders charged with protecting her. "You wouldn't give me the vote," she said, "so I had to use a rock."