Missouri
Missouri Has Many Small Towns. These Could Be 13 Of The Best
Not that way back, I wrote an article a couple of small city in Missouri that had been named top-of-the-line within the nation to go to. That small city was referred to as Ste. Genevieve and should you missed that article you may learn it HERE. Now we all know that the Present Me State has numerous fantastic small cities. Might these be 13 of the perfect? Maybe. It’s up for debate. What number of of those city have you ever been to? For the aim of this checklist, the city will need to have a inhabitants of about 20,000 or much less.
Parkville, Missouri – Inhabitants 6,724
It’s a vibrant group identified for it is quiet neighborhoods and bustling enterprise districts. You may click on HERE for his or her web site.
Boonville, Missouri – Inhabitants 8,418
You may entry their web site HERE. A river metropolis stuffed with allure, it’s nearly midway between Kansas Metropolis and St Louis. For a style of historical past, go to one of many 450 websites belonging to the Nationwide Registry of Historic Locations. The Isle of Capri is situated right here too.
Rocheport, Missouri – Inhabitants 239
One other little city in wine nation, Boone County, was referred to as one among “America’s 10 Coolest Small Cities” by Frommer’s Funds Journey Journal. Vintage retailers, wineries, mattress and breakfasts and entry to the Katy Path. Go to their web site HERE.
Fulton, Missouri – Inhabitants 12,779
Positioned in Calloway County, Fulton boasts 69 buildings on the historic registry. Notable points of interest embody the Nationwide Churchill Museum, situated on the campus of Westminster Faculty, together with the Berlin Wall sculpture. Go to their web site HERE.
Hannibal, Missouri – Inhabitants 17, 320
The house of Mark Twain, that might be Hannibal Missouri. You can too go to the Molly Brown Birthplace Museum, Sawyer’s Creek Household Enjoyable Park, Haunted Hannibal’s Ghost Excursions, or a trolley journey and go to The Huck Finn Freedom Heart. Take a look at their web site HERE.
Weston, Missouri – Inhabitants 1,728
Positioned in Platte County, Weston is a city the place you’ll study one thing new at one of many museums, orchards, instructional farms, outdated distillery, vineyard, or working brewery. A number of choices for music and tenting too. Their web site hyperlink is HERE, and if you wish to go to click on HERE.
Hermann, Missouri – Inhabitants 2,438
Hermann is situated in Gasconade County, close to the middle Missouri Rhineland and south of the Missouri River. You may take part in a “Wine Path” that includes seven family-owned native wineries and masking 20 scenic miles. A number of retailers and festivals. Zip-lining is an possibility too. Go to the town’s web site HERE.
Arrow Rock – Inhabitants 36
You might be most likely accustomed to the Lyceum Theatre in Arrow Rock, and the complete city has been designated as a Nationwide Historic Landmark, and it options a number of historic websites together with the J. Huston Tavern which was established in 1834, and nonetheless in enterprise at the moment, it’s the oldest working restaurant west of the Mississippi. Web site hyperlink is HERE.
Kimmswick, Missouri – Inhabitants 111
Positioned 25 miles south of St. Louis in Jefferson County, Kimmswick options many buildings that date way back to 1859 when the city was based. They’ve distinctive retailers, eating places, and mattress and breakfasts. You can too go to the Anheuser Busch Museum & Property or the Mastadon State Historic Website, or take a Kimmswick Riverboat Cruise. Their web site hyperlink is HERE.
Cuba, Missouri – Inhabitants 3,314
Cuba is situated 80 miles southwest of St. Louis in Crawford County. Go to Mural Metropolis, see the World’s 2nd Largest Rocking Chair, store on the Fanning 66 Outpost, and keep on the Wagon Wheel Motel. Choices for some rafting rivers, canoeing, and tenting. Oh, and the Route 66 factor too. Web site hyperlink is HERE.
Rolla, Missouri – Inhabitants 20,273
On Interstate 44, midway between Springfield and St Louis in Phelps County. Take a look at Splash Zone Waterpark, and Kokomo Joe’s Household Enjoyable Heart. Good museums, 2 theaters and it’s on Route 66. The Stonehenge duplicate is cool too. Web site hyperlink is HERE.
Branson, Missouri – Inhabitants 11,416
Sure, Branson is a small city. You go to there, however not a big inhabitants dwell there. Silver Greenback Metropolis, Desk Rock Lake, White Water Waterpark, and take the Scenic Railway. Adventures of a lifetime for certain. Web site hyperlink is HERE.
Washington, Missouri – Inhabitants 14,014
Positioned on the Missouri River in Franklin County, you will see the “corn cob pipe capital of the world” on account of Missouri Meerschaum, producer of tobacco smoking corn cob pipes. Choices for guided and strolling excursions, historic properties, festivals, festivals and farmers markets. Go to their web site HERE.
So what number of of these small cities have you ever visited? And which one peaks your curiosity essentially the most. All of them have some nice choices relying in your curiosity. Verify them out should you get an opportunity.
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Missouri
Missouri falls to Omaha in NCAA softball regional opener
Missouri, the overall No. 7 seed in the NCAA Tournament, opened the Columbia Regional on Friday with a 3-1 loss in nine innings to the Omaha Mavericks at Mizzou Softball Stadium.
The Tigers will have to win four games in the next two days to advance to the Super Regionals.
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Missouri legislature finishes chaotic session amid paralyzed Senate
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KFVS) – Missouri saw a chaotic end to the 2024 legislative session Friday after a stalled Senate skipped the final day of work.
The hotly-debated resolution to make constitutional amendments more difficult to pass on the ballot upended debate and became a “hot potato” between the House and Senate. Each chamber repeatedly referred the measure to the other, the Senate asking for a conference committee to work out the differences and the House refusing to recede from its position.
Senate leaders on Friday said this session revealed a vast difference between lawmakers who want to find compromises with colleagues and those who want to battle to impose their political will.
In the end, Democrats and the majority of Republicans sent a message that the Missouri General Assembly, particularly the Senate, must remain a place of compromise, where lawmakers find a way to work together.”
“My theory is, if you treat people with respect, you’re willing to listen to them, and you’re willing to work with them, that you can get done the things you need to get done,” said Senate Majority Floor Leader Cindy O’Laughlin.
The five-member “Freedom Caucus” faction of Republicans, led by Harrisonville senator Rick Brattin, called their party’s leaders “cowardly.”
“The Republican party has turned into feckless, spineless, ambassadors of nothing, and not fighting for what’s right,” Brattin said.
Outgoing Senate Minority Leader John Rizzo, D-Independence, said decency and democracy ultimately overcame division and distrust.
“I think that decorum won, I think the bullies lost,” Rizzo said. “I don’t think that matters if you have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ by your name. I think the [Senate] pushed back on being pushed around all year in the last throes of session.”
With the senate adjourned, the Missouri House spent Friday finishing several bills including a major public safety omnibus package.
That bill includes tougher penalties for hurting or killing a law enforcement dog, making it a felony to run from police, and outlawing celebratory gunfire.
But some major bipartisan bills failed to pass including open enrollment in public schools, a ban on child marriage, and Governor Parson’s top priority of new child care tax credits.
“Just because we didn’t pass legislation doesn’t mean that the issue has gone away,” said State Sen. Lauren Arthur, D-Kansas City. “If anything, it’s going to get worse, because there hasn’t been legislative action taken.”
Governor Parson declined to say whether he’ll call lawmakers back for a special session this summer, though many lawmakers predict he will do so for the general assembly to craft a supplemental budget.
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Legislation enacting total ban on child marriage in Missouri dies in the House • Missouri Independent
Child marriage will remain legal in Missouri for at least another year after Republican House leaders said they don’t have enough time to pass it.
Under current Missouri law, anyone under 16 is prohibited from getting married. But 16 and 17 year olds can get married with parental consent to anyone under 21.
Under legislation that cleared the Senate with virtually no opposition earlier this year, marriage would be banned for anyone under 18. “It was very surprising that the House has not allowed it to come to the body,” said Republican state Sen. Holly Thompson Rehder of Scott City, who sponsored the bill along with Sen. Lauren Arthur, a Democrat of Kansas City.
“Banning child marriage should not be controversial. When I filed this bill, I had no idea it would be controversial,” Rehder added.
The bill was stalled by a group of Republican critics in a House committee, who said it would constitute government overreach and infringe on parental rights. It finally passed out of committee this week after several of those critics were not present at the vote.
But House leadership told reporters Friday morning it was too late to place the bill on the House calendar for debate. Session ends at 6 p.m.
“There’s some interest there, unfortunately the rules preclude us from doing that today,” said House Majority Leader Jon Patterson, a Lee’s Summit Republican.
Arthur said the failure is “shameful.”
“When I talk to people back home, they’re surprised to learn that minors can get married in the first place,” Arthur said. “And these are the kinds of headlines that my friends who are apolitical or live in different parts of the country send me and say, ‘What is happening in Missouri?’
“It makes us look bad,” she said, “but more importantly, we’re not doing enough to protect young girls who are forced into marriages and their lives are worse in every way as a result.”
Twelve other states have in recent years banned child marriage.
Rehder said she was told only around 20 out of 163 House members were opposed. She also said the House could have voted to suspend its rules to allow the bill to be debated and passed before adjournment, but suggested that House Speaker Dean Plocher refused to let the bill move forward to avoid embarrassing Republicans who are opposed to banning child marriage.
“We have the votes,” Rehder said, but it didn’t come up “because the speaker didn’t want to put his members in a bad situation.”
“…Because you shouldn’t be against banning child marriage.”
Rehder said she’s hopeful the bill will succeed next year, in large part due to the “public pressure” of state and national media.
“You cannot sign a legal binding contract in Missouri until you’re 18. But we’re allowing a parent to sign a child into a lifetime commitment. It’s ridiculous.”
Rehder attributed some of the opposition to generational differences.
“People who have been against it — the men who have been against it — who talk to me about it have said, ‘Oh, my grandmother got married at 15.’ Well, yes I did too, mine was 40 years ago,” Rehder said.
“And it didn’t work out because I was operating on not an adult mindset.”
Fraidy Reiss, an activist who founded the nonprofit against forced marriage Unchained at Last was active in testifying in support of the bill in Missouri and has worked nationally to pass similar legislation. Upon hearing the news, Reiss said: “How can legislators live with themselves?”
She added that “dozens of teens will be subjected to a human rights abuse and legally trafficked under the guise of marriage in the coming year,” due to the failure to pass the legislation.
“…How will they explain that to their constituents?”
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