The color pink has many meanings and interpretations in society, but none are more significant than the color’s use in October each year, aimed at raising awareness for breast cancer. National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, started in 1985, is an international campaign that — largely thanks to all the pink — is probably the most visible of any health-related awareness day or month throughout the year. ...

Today’s newscasters, most of whom are good readers that are simply reading off a prompter, need to use more caution in the content of their broadcast. During the time I was in the Korean War, it was a known fact if a correspondent’s credentials were approved, he or she would be subject to censoring their own copy by sets of rules outlined by the command they were working under. ...

They say all good things come to an end, and that is what happened on Saturday when the Cassville Democrat, for the first time since my arrival, failed to win a Gold Cup in the Missouri Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. For six years in a row now, we have been honored to be named the best small weekly newspaper in Missouri, but for at least one year, that is a crown we cannot wear...

Triple digit temperatures, or at least readings that bumped that level, experienced recently are nothing new in this area. They are often around for several days during the Dog Days of Summer. Today’s answer to these sweltering times is obviously air conditioning so far was residences or businesses are concerned. ...