Stories from Saturday, November 10, 2012

Please PB help your own Yes, I read a column in the Speak Out column today and it really touched my heart. It's about the person who wrote in and said you are building a $1 million mall out there by the hospital, but that we have starving children and adults elderly here in Poplar Bluff. ...

Ashlyn Buchanan MILLINGTON, Tenn. -- Ashlyn Danielle Buchanan, 18, was born March 8, 1994, in Poplar Bluff, Mo., to the parents Jay and Antoinette Buchanan. She departed this life on Nov. 4, 2012, in the presence of her family. Ashlyn leaves to cherish her life's memories her brother, Jayron Nelson, and her sister, Aumri Buchanan, and a host of relatives and friends...

To the Editor Downtown Poplar Bluff would like to extend its gratitude and appreciation to those involved in making the 3rd annual Iron Horse Festival a great success. Thank you to those businesses who generously donated to the effort: US Bank, Union Pacific and Ben Jones, Wal-Mart, Sterling Bank, Southern Bank, RL Persons Construction, PB Realty, Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, Moore Walsh and Albright, Mayas and Las Margaritas, Larry Hillis Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-Ram, Adkins Chiropractic, Bailey's Car Star, Baldwin GMC, Beijing Chinese, Childress Bail Bonds, Colton's Steakhouse, Gamma Healthcare, First Midwest Bank, Kneibert Clinic, John Fox DDS, Brick's Off Road Park and Hollida Insurance Agency.. ...

Shyanna Masaro GLEN, Miss. -- Shyanna Lee Masaro, 48, died peacefully surrounded by her family on Nov. 4, 2012 at her home in Lebanon, Mo. Shyanna was born Dec. 11, 1963, in Iuka, Miss., the daughter of Jerry and Sue Parson. She graduated Burnsville High School in 1981 and married her high school sweetheart, Tony Masaro, on Dec. ...

By MONA CHAREN Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest of these: It Might Have Been." John Greenleaf Whittier The pundit world will now eviscerate Mitt Romney, a man who, had he garnered just a few hundred thousand more votes in a few key districts, would have been hailed as political genius. Instead, his every fault will be examined, his mistakes magnified and his defeat decreed to be, in retrospect, inevitable...

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- America's 57th presidential election revealed that a second important national institution is on an unsustainable trajectory. The first, the entitlement state, is endangered by improvident promises to an aging population. ...