Today's News

  Rihanna played a concert at the Greensboro Coliseum last Saturday night.

By Congressman Robert Hurt

This past week the Department of Labor released a very disappointing jobs report for the month of June. Our national unemployment rate rose to an unacceptable 9.2 percent and only 18,000 jobs were created.

    I saw a bumper sticker the other day that truly surprised me: The word “America” was emblazoned across the top in all caps with a little message underneath.

    Before I could read the rest, I expected it to be the usual patriotic bombast that you generally see. Instead, it said: “America: Sure was Great While it Lasted.”

    Sedalia Center had the blues, Saturday, and they were quite happy about it. Their annual Blues Festival brought 750 people through the gate on a hot, humid summer day. The festival has been held at Sedalia since 2001.