Editorials

It’s Graduation Season in Nodaway and Worth counties. During the first three weekends of May, university and high school graduates have and will walk across the stage — and start on something brand new on the other side. In many ways, graduation is the last milestone we have marking adulthood: We began on one side…

Last week’s announcement that Amazon will open a last-mile delivery center in Maryville is another feather in the cap of our city and another vote of confidence in our community’s future. We applaud city staff, the Nodaway County Economic Development Corporation and the Maryville Industrial Development Corporation for the big-picture thinking and follow-through that made…

Our community celebrates this week the opening of Voices and Votes: Democracy in America, a Smithsonian exhibit that is making its Missouri debut here in Maryville. We join everyone else across our community in thanking the Missouri Arts Council, Missouri Humanities, the Nodaway Community Theater Co. at The Rose Theatre, Make it Maryville, the Maryville…

There are many opponents of school open enrollment who believe that in not so many years, there will only be one public K-12 district left in Nodaway County. We believe they’re wrong. There will be two. Let’s step into our Delorean and go to a place where we will, unfortunately, still likely need plenty of…

Small towns and school boards around the county will hold contested elections for several races on Tuesday — a positive trend for Nodaway County communities. One of the greatest challenges facing our communities is a shrinking population that makes it difficult to find the next generation of leaders. Passion and opinions on how to shape…

How many of us didn’t bat much of an eye at another hoax threat made to two local education institutions last week? Go ahead and raise your hand, we can’t see you. It is a sign of the times that it’s hardly surprising anymore for a school day, even in a place as out-of-the-way as…

This March 16-22 marks the 20th year of Sunshine Week across the United States, a week when news organizations, civic and watchdog groups, libraries, nonprofits, schools and more shine a light on the importance of public records and open government. In each previous year, we would celebrate our right as Americans to the information we…

Minnesota State men’s basketball coach Matt Margenthaler said it last year when his team beat Ben McCollum’s Bearcats in the regional final on a last-second shot, “We don’t want to play like that, they do. They’ve been successful doing that. I wouldn’t even want to coach that.” He and his players then burst into laughter…

Once again this weekend, a burglar will enter our homes in the dead of night and steal an hour from our clocks. Well, like, half of them. The others we’ll still have to change manually. Other than a one-time excuse for why we’re late to church, why do we still put up with this annual…

One of the privileges we have in our work here at The Forum is the opportunity to spend time in all of the smaller communities that make up our larger Nodaway County community. Most of the time, it’s just a job, and we report on them like any other, giving the same weight and import…