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Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Daily Mail
Heroic moment cop saves driver having heart attack behind the wheel of his car
This is the dramatic moment a hero cop saves a driver who was having a heart attack behind the wheel of his car in Joplin, Missouri. Footage shows Sergeant Nick Booe of the Newton County Sheriff's Office, running to help Barton County farmer Spencer Arnold, after realising he was having a medical emergency. Click above to watch the video.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Climate
- Yahoo
Joplin's Homewood Suites Breakfast fails food inspection
JOPLIN, Mo. — A Joplin hotel fails a food inspection Thursday. According to the City of Joplin Health Department, Homewood Suites Breakfast, located on E 32nd Street, failed its most recent routine food inspection on July 17. The inspector noted the following under Observations & Corrective Actions: 3-3: 3-304.14Type: ['Violation']Violation Code: 3-304.14 – Core – Wiping Cloths, Use Limitation Wiping cloth observed lying on preparation Wiping cloth observed lying on preparation table. 3-5: 3-501.16 (A)Type: ['Violation']Violation Code: 3-501.16 (A) – Priority – Potentially Hazardous Food, Cold Holding Salsa, shredded cheese, oatmilk overnight oats on buffet is being cold held above 41° Salsa, shredded cheese, oatmilk overnight oats on buffet is being cold held above 41° Actions: Maintain cold PHF's at or below 41°F. Do not store PHF's in this unit until it is able to maintain 41°F or below. Discard any PHF that has been out of temperature control for more than 4 hours or an unknown length of time. Repair, replace, or remove the unit. 4-5: 4-501.112Type: ['Violation']Violation Code: 4-501.112 – Priority – Mechanical Warewashing Equipment, Hot Water Sanitization Temperatures Water temperature is 115 ° Water temperature is 115 ° Actions: Water temperature may not be more than 194°F or less than 165°F or 180°F. The hotel passed its last four routine visits. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
02-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Editorial: Congress must reclaim war power
Editor's note: This editorial originally ran in fellow CNHI paper the Joplin, Missouri, Globe. Congress has been dropping the ball for years. It needs to reclaim its authority among the three branches of the federal government; in fact, the Constitution lists the legislative first among equals for a reason. It first lays out the duties and powers of the legislative branch, then outlines the authority and responsibilities of the executive and judicial branches. Intended to be the branch that most closely represents the will of the people, it instead has been captured by partisans beholden to party and president. With the power to challenge even controversial rulings by the Supreme Court through legislation or proposing amendments to the Constitution, it instead seems to duck its responsibilities and give away its power. The founders implemented a government of divided authority and responsibility — divided power between not just the three federal branches but also the states — to limit the risk of runaway government. Congress' tendency for years now has been to cede its power to the other branches. Legislation written to counter questionable rulings by the high court has all but stopped, and we haven't seen a constitutional amendment proposed in generations. Lawmakers have been actually energetic in giving away their power to the executive branch, actively writing laws that hand over their authority to increasingly imperial presidents. After all, bearing the responsibilities of the legislative branch carries much more risk than posturing and bloviating while dodging those things for which a Congress member might be held to account. As we said in an earlier editorial about Congress yielding its tariff authority to presidents, 'How the nation drifted is a long and legal story, but most Americans recognize that central to that story is the failure of members of Congress to get in the game.' Though game is really much too gentle a term for Congress yielding its most deadly authority — the constitutional power to declare war and to establish, regulate and fund the instruments of war. The recent action by President Donald Trump in bombing Iran without congressional approval — regardless of whether history ends up showing the action vindicated — is just the latest example of Congress abdicating its authority. U.S. Constitution Article I, Section 8: 'The Congress shall have Power To … declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces …' The founders separated the war powers for a reason, making the president the commander in chief of the armed forces when they are called into action — a power to carry out a war Congress declares. While we understand the occasional modern need for rapid emergency action, the president's authority should not extend to singular action without Congress. Congress granted the president the authority to make rapid strikes in emergencies but requires Congress, or at least key members with national security oversight, to be informed beforehand. and lawmakers retained the right to review and end such conflicts. Presidents over the years have continued to stretch this power beyond the scope of the original law and to call things emergencies for which they rightly should have sought approval. It is time for lawmakers to revisit Congress' use of force authorization, to tighten and redefine it and insist that no executive have the unilateral power to launch a war.
San Francisco Chronicle
02-07-2025
- Business
- San Francisco Chronicle
Historic S.F. building — and former Grateful Dead hangout — is seeking a takeover
Seven years after it inherited the historic Doolan-Larson Building that was central to the Haight-Ashbury counterculture scene in the 1960s, San Francisco Heritage has finally figured out what to do with the three-story cornerstone: turn it over to someone else. On Aug. 1, the preservationist nonprofit that owns the Haight Street building will take the first step toward leasing it out or forming some other partnership arrangement to create a 'public-serving cultural facility,' according to a website launched for this project. Called a 'request for concept proposals,' this phase will invite ideas for how best to use all or portions of the 7,500-square-foot property, which consists of six ground-level storefronts with two floors above. 'At this point we want someone who can preserve the building while offering dynamic programming, and being a model of good governance,' said co-project manager Tia Lombardi, who saved the toughest ask on her wish list for last. 'Someone has to have the financial wherewithal to do it.' That means around $14 million, which was the last estimate for bringing the 1903 building to code for public use. S.F. Heritage's call for help or, better yet, a full takeover, is an acknowledgement that its own ambitious plans to program the building, announced to great neighborhood fanfare in 2019, have not panned out. 'This will be ground zero for the whole experience of Haight-Ashbury as a neighborhood,' Nancy B. Gille, past president of S.F. Heritage, said at the time. But due to building code and access limitations, it never got past an artist residency program and weekly open houses, which still happen on Thursday afternoons, by reservation. 'We have failed everyone if you can't walk in here and have the experience of what a crash pad looked like in the 1950s and '60s,' Gille said in 2019. 'Or have the experience of just hanging out and listening to Janis (Joplin) or Jimi (Hendrix).' Located on the northwest corner of Haight and Ashbury, the former rooming house is marked by a giant jewelry store clock that hangs on the corner with its hands frozen on the stoner time of 4:20. This was a favorite backdrop for band photos, particularly the Grateful Dead, who lived just up Ashbury Street and often hung out in the storefront occupied by Peggy Caserta's boutique Mnasidika, where Joplin got her stage threads on the cheap. Doolan-Larson was already a city landmark when Norm Larson left it to S.F. Heritage upon his death in 2018. Currently assessed at $5.4 million for tax purposes, it became the second property in the S.F. Heritage portfolio, after the Victorian Haas-Lilienthal House in Pacific Heights, gifted to it in 1973. Now Haas-Lilienthal is a house museum in a quiet neighborhood that attracts more than 10,000 paid visitors a year. The hope of storefront operators is that Doolan-Larson can attract that same foot traffic to the corner of Haight and Ashbury. 'I hope it (Doolan-Larson) activates the neighborhood and provides opportunities for collaborations with us,' said Jerry Cimino, who opened the Counterculture Museum on the opposite corner last May. 'There is a hell of a story to tell about this neighborhood.' That story will continue the weekend of Aug. 1-3 when Dead & Co., featuring surviving Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, will play three afternoon shows at the Polo Field in honor of the band's 60th anniversary. All three days are sold out. The call for proposals is timed to those shows, in hopes of creating an ancillary buzz about Doolan-Larson. 'They need someone to finance it,' said music historian and writer Ben Fong-Torres, who was part of the opening press conference in 2019. 'It comes down to the bread. It always does.' The major expense is installing an elevator, which is a code requirement. The residential portion of the building is accessed by a narrow door on Ashbury Street and a narrower staircase to the parlor floor. 'It's impossible to imagine anybody being able to run a public-serving facility without an elevator,' said Lombardi. S.F. Heritage has explored this option and estimates ran to $14 million. 'Hence the call for ideas,' Lombardi said. 'It will take a big-hearted effort to do something really good at this corner.' There could be a small scale lodging or food component, even a bar as part of a larger concept, Lombardi said. Proposals are due Oct. 31, and the board of San Francisco Heritage has employed consultant Brent Glass, former director of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian to sort through the candidates. Matchmaking might be involved to secure the most viable final proposal. Finalists will advance to a formal proposal stage starting in December. The six storefronts will be part of the deal, depending upon the terms of their individual leases. S.F. Heritage is not anticipating a direct role in the future plan, whatever it may be. If none of the proposals embrace the historical and cultural significance of the corner of Haight and Ashbury, the nonprofit will wait and try again. It owns the house outright and collects rent on the storefronts, so the building has positive cash flow. In the meantime, the neighborhood story is being told by artist-in-residence Linda Kelly, editor of the Haight Street Voice, a community magazine. She is streaming 'Haight Ashbury Radio' from the front parlor, Wednesday and Friday afternoons, through the end of the year. She'll interview guests about the future possibilities for Doolan-Larson. 'It's a tricky one,' said Kelly, who has lived in the neighborhood since 1982. 'Without sounding too hippy dippy, occupying the Doolan-Larson Building to keep the ethos of Haight-Ashbury going means the world to me.'
Yahoo
28-06-2025
- Yahoo
Expungement clinic planned for July 4 in Joplin
Joplin residents with non-violent convictions can get a fresh start by clearing their record at an expungement clinic to be held Friday, July 4. The event will run from 9 a.m. to noon that day at the Recovery Outreach Community Center (ROCC) at 1402 S. Main St. It will be held by the Joplin Police Department and the McPherson Law Firm along with the ROCC. "We want to assist individuals who have low-level, non-violent felony and misdemeanor offenses get those convictions expunged from their criminal record so that they may reintegrate more successfully into society," Joplin Police Chief Richard Pearson said in a statement. Convictions eligible for expungement are those that occurred in Jasper County, although there may be limited assistance available to residents of neighboring Missouri counties. Interested individuals can pick up a screening forms ahead of the clinic at the Joplin Police Department, 303 E. Third St., or the McPherson Law Firm, 626 Byers Ave. As part of this program, individuals can expunge up to two felonies or three misdemeanors if all charges are completely resolved, including no probation or parole time for at least one year for misdemeanors or three years for felonies. Applicant must have no pending criminal cases. Those applying for the program must bring a photo ID and, if possible, their case numbers. Charges not eligible for this program include: • Any crime of violence. • Any sex-related felony conviction. • Political crime. • Kidnapping. • Any DWI offense. • Felony domestic violence. • Any assault on a first responder. For questions, contact the Joplin Police Department at 417-623-3131.
