I don’t know if I can take an NFL postseason like the last one.
If you’ve seen my columns the past couple months, you might have noticed my wife and I have cut way back in our traveling.
Remember last spring?
Few escaped the year 2020 without the opportunity to do something taken away.
I recently heard about the state legislative discussion to possibly move school board elections to November.
Recently, the city of Union agreed to pay $50,000 for a St. Louis firm to develop a comprehensive plan.
Mistakes happen.
“Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth,” Lou Gehrig said July 4, 1939.
What a run the Union High football team had to reach the Class 4 state semifinals.
It must be good to be among the league’s favorites.
I recently added coverage of Franklin County to my duties at The Missourian.
A recent Missourian “Five Times Five” question asked residents if they had ever competed in a 5-kilometer race.
Save for one team, the fall sports season is done for the area.
My name is Geoff, and I’m addicted to baseball cards.
With the 2020 fall sports season reaching its end stage, there have been a lot of interesting, unique and unusual happenings.
Over the years, I’ve lived in four states with Six Flags theme parks.
Is there a curse on the team that loses the Super Bowl during the next season?
I’m a fan of baseball stadiums, national parks, crude comedy and even historic bridges. But I’m not such a weirdo that I post on message boards about those things.
Could this year get any crazier?
One of the more breathtaking sights for me is walking into a Major League Baseball park I haven’t been to before and seeing the field open up in front of me.
Political endorsements are a time-honored tradition within newspapers which we view as part of our public service mission, even if some of our readers disagree with our choices.
They’re everywhere.
Every day we post the latest COVID-19 numbers on our website and twice a week we run a story on the front page, detailing the latest virus cases, which now total more than 2,400 in Franklin County.
One of the city of Union’s longtime civic volunteers and an instrumental force in the founding of East Central College, Ray Steffens, passed recently.
Two statewide ballot measures will appear on the Nov. 3 ballot. Both were referred by the Legislature.
If 2020 has ushered in a “new normal,” hopefully it will be the unknown factor of this year.
My wife and I recently took our first extended trip since moving to Missouri seven months ago.
Recently while sorting through some old stuff in the former press room downstairs at The Missourian, I came across two identical weathered brown boxes labeled This Is Your Neighbor. They each had odd and difficult-to-open latches, and that piqued my interest. I carried them to my office upst…
The NFL schedule is becoming like a Chinese puzzle box.
If you remember last spring, when the COVID-19 pandemic was starting to shut down everything, we started a project here to create some buzz.
It feels like we’ve only just begun, but we’re now in the home stretch of the Major League Baseball season.
In case you haven’t noticed, the last six months haven’t been the most exciting for live music.
Even if they’ve been living under a rock, in a cave or a fallout shelter, everyone knows that 2020 has been a rough year.
Fantasy, Reality
For athletes around the area, the dream has become a reality.
After six months, I’ve finally completed a rite of passage for a Missouri resident.
If you’ve followed my column, you may have heard me mention the HBO program “Hard Knocks” a time or two.
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt said during his 1933 inaugural address.
We decided to spend part of my recent birthday taking a little hike.
Can we make it through a full season this fall?
A recent headline on the website Drudgereport.com quotes a study purporting that 41 percent of Americans have adopted a minimalist lifestyle.
The Union R-XI School District and the city of Union have both opened taxpayer-funded headquarter buildings in the past year. Now it’s time to let more taxpayers see what goes on inside.
The most famous words for 2020 might be “What else can happen?”
Since things started reopening, I’ve written about museums and other attractions that I’ve been fortunate enough to visit.
Major League Baseball returned Friday and while it feels a little weird, it also feels right.
In recent months, nothing has filled me with the fear of catching the coronavirus quite like going into Walmart.
Thursday marks a personal milestone.
The voice. That was what got my heart racing unexpectedly several years ago, my only encounter with the Hon. John Lewis.
After five months of living in Missouri, I recently decided it was, finally, time to get off the couch for a minute and check out some of the area’s walking trails.
This past Tuesday was a good day.
I must admit to being a bit torn on things reopening.
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