I’d heard a third hand account from a coworker a couple years ago that the mother, working at the (now closed) stockyards cafe, had gone out back for a smoke and had witnessed some sort cocaine mule operation involving cows to move the product. Supposedly it was a local western store owner. … and a separate rumor that they’re buried in a certain western store sign foundation.

Get involved with local and state ballot initiatives or start one yourself. Over 60% of MO voters voted to shoot down “Right to Work” a few years ago. 53% voted to legalize cannabis. Etc.

Vetting progressive candidates, knocking doors for them (very important) and getting them elected is the only way to stop the stranglehold that CoC has on the city. It takes hard work but you can win.

A good way to get the chops for it is joining or getting active in your union and if you can’t do that you can get good campaign training and experience working with Jobs with Justice. They’re great. Do the work, keep going.

Someone already mentioned several affinity groups that are interested in the very same things OP mentioned. These are the like minded folks you want to build relationships with and work with. Then keep going.

Hey you know what else regrow toes? CRABS. We’re all turning into crabs.

Perhaps Lou Whitney of The Morells. They did the song about the original Red’s Hamburg. He was more well known as a producer/engineer. On a side note, he’s in a documentary about Ozarks musicians called The Center of Nowhere that came out in 2020. Pretty cool and easy to catch for free on streaming.

Shurita is awesome, more than qualified and is already a great school board member. Volunteer and/for her if you can!

Interesting that he’s concerned over “ethics” when he harasses, intimidates and threatens anyone who disagrees with him or for just existing. Dude needs to get a life.

So this is a glaring and MASSIVE failure by the mayor and city council (and their predecessors) to address this problem. This city council has paid lip service and ignored Christi and Connecting Grounds. And Arnott has the gall to say put people in her parking lot. SHE IS! And has for a long time and even her own home.

The current Sheriff, city council and mayor have got to go. Talk about kicking the can down the road. The new jail is full before they open. Ridiculous! And there are more and more people living on the streets everyday. It’s madness, and we keep giving them money for these useless punitive measures. It will not solve the problem!

Make funding available for (social, medical/mental health)services and low income housing in this area and the issues with homelessness and “criminals” will cease to be such a massive issue. And stick with it. Preventative not punitive.

Raise people up instead of kicking them when they’re down!

Unfortunately, JOB and Grand Prize are gone forever. RIP, Danny.

I guess Plato was right about being governed by our inferiors. Need more participation as prescribed.

Cool. I’ve got too much self inflicted brain damage to remember too much from that period. Honestly just surprised how many unsupervised teens were roaming around then. Total chaos.

Think I was out of shows by then. Got too violent. Was a raver, briefly, after that period. This was 96-97 right?

I remember them. Wasn’t that a Gabe Harper band? Did you ever go to shows at Harpers Bizarre or The Looney Bin?

Magic Bean. Jeff is a scumbag but I saw some great local shows there. Big Bad Chubba, Odd Things Happen…, Squelch, Barbie Holocaust, maybe U$MC? and so many more bands. River Front Times did an article about this era of the DIY punk scene in Springfield.

The city basically ‘imminent domain-ed’ Springfield Skatepark. Tons of volunteer hours went into making it happen and then the city “took over.” I would imagine the skatepark would likely get upgrades IF a tax increase gets passed for parks improvements.

This city council makes their decisions in the closed lunch meetings. They don’t give a f*ck about community member input. (e.g. Buc-ees)

Casa Kuisina in the lot at Glenstone and Cinderella is Filipino food. Haven’t had it but they’re good looks good.

There’s Skateland in Webb City and Skate World in Branson. RIP Skate Port and Skate Corral.

Cooperative Crisis Cold Weather Shelters. More info here.. https://www.facebook.com/groups/cooperativeccws/?ref=share&mibextid=S66gvF

A quick search on indeed.com says there’s 8,940 job listings in the Springfield area. Now finding one of those that pays a living wage, that’s the tricky part.

Guarantee it’s one, maybe two people in this area. Shockingly this hate/terrorist group isn’t recruiting the best and brightest… they had their database of vandalism and hate crime videos leaked last year. https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/patriot-front-fascist-leak-exposes-nationwide-racist-campaigns/

I would be so mad. If that happened to my daughter I’d call people out to their face. Or something irrational. Top level dadding there.

Get some heat lamps on them pipes bro.

Also… check with the folks (in-person) involved with the Cooperative Crisis Cold Weather Shelter. They see a lot of folks.

Go to The Connecting Grounds. They may be able to help.

Rutledge Wilson farm park does a drive through.