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Joplin weighs higher funding for downtown preservation
Joplin weighs higher funding for downtown preservation as major historic projects remain unfinished Proposed agreement would raise city support for Downtown Joplin Alliance from $50,000 to $75,000 in the first year, with additional increases through 2029. A review of public records shows preservation activity and outside grant funding, but no public property-by-property accounting that connects prior city payments to specific redevelopment results. By Miami News-Digest JOPLIN, Mo. — Joplin City Council is being asked to approve a new three-year funding arrangement with Downtown Joplin Alliance that could provide the nonprofit $248,250 through fiscal year 2029, substantially increasing the city's financial commitment to downtown preservation and economic-development work. Council Bill 2026-521 is scheduled for first reading Monday, Oct. 5. The proposed agreement calls for $75,000 in fiscal 2027, $82,500 the following year and $90,750 in fiscal 2029. The first year would...
Search Continues for Missing McDonald County Couple
Search Continues for Missing McDonald County Couple Leo and Katherine Lindeman have been missing since mid-September as investigators search property, examine evidence and pursue additional records. By Miami News-Digest October 3, 2026 ANDERSON, Mo. — Authorities continue searching for answers in the disappearance of an elderly McDonald County couple who have not been seen or heard from since mid-September. Leo Lester Lindeman, 73, and Katherine Marie Lindeman, 74, of the Anderson area remain listed as missing through the Missouri State Highway Patrol Missing Persons Clearinghouse. The Highway Patrol lists Sept. 15 as the date of last contact for both. The McDonald County Sheriff’s Office is the investigating agency. The couple was reported missing to authorities Sept. 24 after family members became concerned about the lack of contact. Their small white dog is also reported missing. Investigators have since carried out severa...
Miami, Grove Join New Three-State Tourism Alliance as Regional Marketing Effort Takes Shape
MND BUSINESS REPORT Miami, Grove Join New Three-State Tourism Alliance as Regional Marketing Effort Takes Shape New regional partnership plans a print and digital tourism publication as questions remain about funding, ownership and revenue structure. By Sean Gray | Miami News-Digest MND Business Report | October 2026 MIAMI, Okla. — Miami and Grove have joined a new regional tourism and marketing alliance spanning northeast Oklahoma, southwest Missouri and northwest Arkansas, an effort organizers say could give smaller communities and businesses a collective reach difficult to build individually. The Tri-State Marketing & Tourism Alliance was announced in September by the McDonald County Chamber of Commerce in Missouri. Organizers said more than a dozen chambers, tourism offices and community organizations were participating at launch, with a combined network representing more than 5,000 businesses and ...
Miami Native Christopher Miller Promoted to First Class Petty Officer in U.S. Navy
Miami Native Christopher Miller Promoted to First Class Petty Officer in U.S. Navy By Miami News-Digest Miami, Oklahoma, native Christopher Miller receives his new insignia during his promotion from Culinary Specialist 2nd Class to Culinary Specialist 1st Class at Naval Construction Battalion Center Gulfport in Gulfport, Mississippi, Oct. 2, 2026. U.S. Navy photo by Brian Lamar, Naval Construction Battalion Center Gulfport. GULFPORT, Miss. — A Miami, Oklahoma, native has reached a new milestone in his U.S. Navy career. Culinary Specialist Christopher Miller was promoted from Culinary Specialist 2nd Class to Culinary Specialist 1st Class on Oct. 2 at Naval Construction Battalion Center Gulfport in Mississippi. Brian Lamar, public affairs officer for the Gulfport installation, contacted Miami News-Digest about Miller's advancement and provided offic...
F.D.R. Second Bill of Rights
EDITORIAL | MIAMI NEWS-DIGEST Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1944 proposal for a “Second Bill of Rights” raised a question that remains unsettled: What does freedom mean when political rights exist on paper, but economic insecurity limits a citizen’s ability to exercise them in practice? By Miami News-Digest In January 1944, with the United States still fighting the Second World War, President Franklin D. Roosevelt placed before the country an idea that remains remarkably unsettled more than eight decades later. Americans, he argued, had inherited indispensable political rights—freedom of speech, freedom of worship, trial by jury, protection against unreasonable searches—but an industrial society had revealed another problem. A citizen could possess those liberties in law and still lack the practical independence necessary to exercise them. R...
Deep Fission Sets Oct. 20 Update as Parsons Nuclear Project Moves Toward Next Phase
Deep Fission Sets Oct. 20 Update as Parsons Nuclear Project Moves Toward Next Phase Business call could provide new details on drilling, regulatory approvals and the timetable for commercial operation By Miami News-Digest PARSONS, Kan. — Deep Fission Inc. has scheduled a public business update for Tuesday, Oct. 20, offering what could be the next important look at how quickly its unusual underground nuclear project near Parsons is moving from engineering concept toward an operating reactor. The company announced Oct. 1 that management will hold the call at 11 a.m. Eastern — 10 a.m. Central — and provide an update on progress toward commercial deployment, followed by a question-and-answer session. A live webcast and subsequent replay will be available through Deep Fission’s investor-relations website. For readers of Miami News-Digest, the announcement follows our October feature, “A Mile Beneath Kansas: The Nuclear Experiment Taking Shape in the Four-State Region.” That repo...