Stories from Tuesday, February 4, 2020

I have been teaching economics since 1967 -- 40 years of it at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. During that interval, economic reality has not changed. Just as Galileo’s law about the independent influence of gravity on falling objects has not changed, neither have the fundamental principles of economics. ...

President Donald Trump rightly touts the economy-wide savings from his deregulation initiatives. But one federal agency didn't get the memo. Some members of the Surface Transportation Board, which has oversight over the nation's network of freight railroads, wants to resurrect price controls on the industry...

It has been a bad few days for the establishment, really bad. In a 51-49 vote, the Senate refused to call witnesses in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump and agreed to end the trial Wednesday, with a near-certain majority vote to acquit the president of all charges...

City council members acted Monday to move five items to the Feb. 18 voting session, including ordinances they hope will help clean up vacant lots and board appointments. The mow-to-own proposal would allow residents to assume ownership of vacant lots owned by the city...

Nora Matilda (Covey) Hill, was born in Leachville, Ark. Nov. 21, 1920 to Rome Ben and Mary Matilda (Stephens) Covey. She passed away Feb. 2, 2020 at Westwood Hills Nursing Facility. She married Eugene Brandon Hill Sept. 17, 1938 in Cardwell, Ark. She loved quilting, playing bingo and visiting with family and friends...

Students with the Twin Rivers R-X school district are on their way home as the schools close early today. The district announced schools would close at noon on Tuesday and remain closed on Wednesday.

City firefighters responded at 11:14 p.m. Monday, Feb. 3, to a report of an unauthorized burn at the 714 Sanders Avenue residence occupied by Brittany Cooper. According to the report, firefighters found a small trash fire in the back yard. Firefighters told Cooper about the city’s burn ordinance, and she put out the fire...

Saint Francis Healthcare will offer free heart screenings every Wednesday in February for American Heart Month.

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL A 40-year-old Dexter woman was injured in a one-vehicle crash at 7:04 p.m. Monday, Feb. 3, on Highway 25, two miles north of Clarkton. According to the report, Melissa G. Little was operating a 2000 Buick southbound when it ran off the left side of the road and struck a telephone utility box and tree...

Nearly 40 people showed up Tuesday at the first day of free AARP tax clinics which are being held at the Twin Towers. RSVP Director Jennifer Rosener said, 30 had property tax paperwork prepared and filed while nine were able to have their federal and state taxes done...

GARWOOD — A Reynolds County man remains in a St. Louis hospital after he was shot in the face Sunday night by a man who knocked on his door and asked for directions. At about 9:50 p.m., the Carter County Sheriff’s Department received a 911 call from “a female caller reporting that a family member had been shot at a residence near the junction of Highway 21 and Highway 34,” said Carter County Sheriff Rick Stephens...

Arnold Monroe Montgomery was born to Oscar Monroe Montgomery and Minnie Eldeman in Crossett, Ark. April 11, 1918. At the age of five he moved with his parents to the Green Forest community east of Poplar Bluff where he attended Black Creek, a one-room school, through the eighth grade. He then went to high school in Poplar Bluff where, yes, he walked five miles one way each day. Growing up as a farm boy, upon graduation, Arnold moved to the big city of St. Louis to seek his fortune...

Under the advice of the district’s auditor, the Twin Rivers R-X school board is forming a budget committee.