As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. – Psalm 42:1 – 2
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July 26, 2024 • Volume 5, Issue #30
SEE OUR VOTER GUIDE, PAGE 7B – 14B
• Around Town.... 16B • Churches.......... 15B • Classifieds......... 10C • Food.................. 8C • Fun & Games.... 12C • Pets for Adoption �� 3A • Obituaries........ 11A • Weather........... 16B
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Not a Pierce Arrow in the bunch Love your wife – SEE PAGE 1B.
PIERCE ARROW THEATRE CORVETTE CONTEST – The Lake of the Ozarks Corvette Club was well represented at the second annual Pierce Arrow Theater Corvette Contest. People attending the evening show, Decades, voted for their choice and the three winners were announced at intermission. Ellen Ensminger past president of the club said she is looking forward to next year’s competition. A good time was had by all including those who enjoyed music of the ‘60s, ’70s and ‘80s. (Photo by George Kurland)
Reducing the ‘tyranny of the majority’ in Branson and other rural areas
Traditional Ozark music in Mt. View, AR – SEE PAGE 1C.
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BY GARY J. GROMAN, Independent Journalist While doing my due diligence for the column “Is a “mob” an example of “Democracy?” appearing elsewhere in this edition, I interviewed District 156 State Representative Brian Seitz about legislation that would help mitigate the impact of what our forefathers called the “tyranny of the majority” on the rural and less populated area of Missouri. Below is the result of that interview, as it pertains specifically to changing the Initiative Petition Process for changing Missouri’s Constitution (MS) to help mitigate the control that very few of the state’s 114 counties have over Missouri’s rural and less populous areas. It is in a Question-and-Answer format with the questions being asked to Representative Seitz (RS) by this reporter for the Branson Globe (BG): BG: Is there legislation in the Missouri Legislature that will give those living in the rural and less
populous area of Missouri a fairer voice in the governing of Missouri? RS: There is more than one, but the one that comes to mind for this Session is Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) No.74. BG: What would it do? RS: Permit qualified voters of Missouri to vote on a constitutional amendment to change how the Missouri State Constitution is changed. BG: Do you support SJR No. 74 or similar legislation? RS: Absolutely! BG: How is the Missouri Constitution changed now? RS: Once it is on the ballot, Missouri’s Constitution can be changed by a simple majority vote of 50% plus one. BG: About 60% of Missouri’s voters reside in 10 of its 114 counties. Doesn’t that give them excessive control over statewide actions impacting the other 104 counties? RS: Yes. SEE TYRANNY, PAGE 2A
Haven Shelton has been missing for six weeks. (via Facebook)
The search for Haven continues BY K.D. MICHAELS, Staff Writer For more than six weeks, a Kimberling City area teen has been missing. Haven Shelton’s family remains diligent in their search for her, despite the fact that there have been no significant leads. “Every day, it just seems like a bad dream that we can’t wake up from, and can’t really be happening to us,” said Jan, Haven’s mother, in a post on the Bring Haven Home
Facebook page. “These are things that happen to other people, or on TV.” Haven, who was discovered missing on the morning of June 11, is 19 years old. Haven is 5 feet tall, weighs 110 pounds, with shoulder length brown hair, brown eyes, and a fair complexion. Haven has special needs that require her to take medication daily. She left home without her medication and with no phone and no bank card or cash.
Although there have been no major clues to Haven’s whereabouts, her family has faith that they will see their daughter again soon. Said Jan, “We are not losing hope. We have said over and over during the past 12 or 13 years that we never give up on Haven, and that is not going to change now. This is still an active investigation being worked by the Stone County Sheriff’s SEE HAVEN, PAGE 7A
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