Stories from Saturday, January 26, 2019

Gun control advocates pounce on each and every study that monitors gun deaths. But those very same advocates who want stricter gun control never look beyond the surface to honestly address gun violence in America. Like clockwork, a new study is out this week listing gun deaths across the country. And Missouri is among the states cited for the fifth-highest gun deaths in America...

Yes, I was over at Express Care and I kind of overheard a guy hurt his shoulder and the doctor from Missouri Delta was saying he needed physical therapy but he had Medicaid. I overheard the doctor say “you might as well give that up because the state won’t take the Medicaid but we would do this program and then we get a MRI and you will probably have to have surgery. But if you get physical therapy it would probably be 50 percent and you wouldn’t have to have surgery. Medicaid won’t pay it.” I’m sitting here watching TV, seeing all these illegal immigrants get all this free medical stuff. What about Americans? As a United States citizen they would rather give health care and all kinds of benefits to illegal immigrants instead of us Americans. It’s a shame. I hope the gentleman gets physical therapy and doesn’t have to go through surgery. He’s an older gentleman. I’m just saying this is a shame. And we should be ashamed of ourselves in the state of Missouri. The American people, it’s citizens should be ashamed. We keep voting these people in and they keep doing it. Around here you don’t see that many illegal immigrants but you’re seeing more. You go to St. Louis up in that area, that’s all you see now. Farmers and everything. It’s a shame. I hope that gentleman gets help. And I am a taxpayer too so I have a right to complain.

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. —It has been 70 years since Paul McGhee took his bar exam and began practicing law in Stoddard County. At age 93, McGhee is the most senior judge who still regularly presides over cases in the Missouri state court’s system. Since taking senior judge status in January 1995, McGhee may no longer be as active as he once was, but he still drives himself to Poplar Bluff twice a month to hear cases...