ShareIt’s a heart-stopping experience that many motorists in Missouri have shared. You top a hill on a shoulderless highway to find a slow-moving bicycle in your path. You jam on the brakes and/or swerve to the ditch or over the center line to avoid hitting the cyclist, praying that no one’s coming over the next [...]

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Elk plan needs work
T
he Missouri Department of Conservation’s plan to reintroduce elk to Missouri needs quite a bit of work before the Conservation Commission puts its seal of approval on the program.
The department has done a good job of selecting an elk restoration zone with a high percentage of public land [...]

ShareWhen Congress reconvenes, it needs to reauthorize taxes on oil, chemical and other companies to help pay for costs of remediating orphaned Superfund sites.
The Superfund is a federal environmental program established in 1980 to address abandoned hazardous waste sites. It was created after the discovery of toxic waste dumps such as Love Canal in the [...]

ShareHmmph! At least that guy from the Army Corps said we are intelligent, even if they want us to go back to eating uncooked minnows and berries, and not potato chips and powdered donuts. It’s not safe to eat raw crawdads anymore…I read that in the newspaper by the picnic table, too. Lock stuff up [...]

ShareA few issues back, Traveler raised the question in this space of whether the Missouri Department of Conservation is doing enough to improve smallmouth bass fishing in the state. What prompted the question was an MDC White Paper recommending eight new stream stretches totaling 249.3 miles for new [...]

ShareNPS right to limit vehicular access
The National Park Service is making the right move to close 50 roads and trails to unauthorized motorized access in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, despite the unpopularity of the action with many local residents.
People can still go wherever they want in the park, but they won’t always be able [...]

ShareDo you honestly think the taxes collected for sales tax will be spent properly? How about the people from Missouri be more concerned that their taxes aren’t squandered first before going after Internet companies and small ones too boot that are from out of state that sell to your state? If they held the politicians [...]

ShareOuch!
“Revenue falls; 173 MDC jobs won’t be filled.” “DNR feels budget knife. 100 state parks positions cut.”
These recent headlines show the tough conditions state agencies protecting natural resources and wildlife to have to endure. But that’s how it goes. Taxpayers have been making do with less for sometime now. Government must do the same.
There’s no [...]

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As I was posting the item about proposed MDC facility closures two thoughts came to mind.

Share Working on Traveler can be tiring.
Now, mind you, I’m not complaining. I’ve done a lot of more tiring things in my life, like packing and throwing boxes for a 12 hour day in a bindery, and proofing railroad commodity tariffs — pages and pages of reading columns and columns of numbers in the [...]