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What’s better: working for the state of Missouri — or working at a Dollar General Warehouse?

Well, state budget director Dan Haug says that based on pay, Dollar General is a better deal. The state is struggling to keep workers who leave for better jobs. The governor wants to give state employees an 8.7% raise.
That’s on top of 7.5% last year.

Haug says that pay hike last year helped lower turnover a bit — but with companies such as Dollar General giving 20% raises — .the state has to do more — or face losing more workers

Big jump in gas prices. AAA says the average in Missouri is $3.12 a gallon — up 19 cents in a week — and up
44-cents in a month.

Adair county is just under the state average at $3.08 a gallon. Macon county at 3.10 a gallon.

Snow coming. 1-3 inches late tonight into tomorrow. Winter weather advisory begins this evening at six.

New sidewalk in the works. Kirksville is considering a stretch of sidewalk from Osteopathy Street to Main Street connecting to the FLATS trail. The city can apply for money from the state. Total cost $387,000….with the city’s share about $97,000.

Gas prices going back up…according to AAA.

Adair county…$3.09 a gallon…that’s also the average statewide. But that’s a jump of 38-cents a gallon in Missouri in the last month.

Some experts talking about the possibility of $4 a gallon toward summertime.

Improving I-70. Gov. Parson wants to spend nearly $860 million to widen and improve the Interstate focusing on suburban Kansas City, the Columbia area and St. Louis near Wentzville.

One plan calls for getting rid of all of the traffic lights in Columbia where I-70 meets US 63.

They call themselves the Kia boys. Car thieves who learned on Tik Tok how to start and steal a Kia or Hyundai that made between 2011 and 2021.

Cops in some Missouri cities say that if you have one of those cars, keep it in a locked garage or put a lock on the steering wheel. Or, consider getting a car that’s not so easy to steal.

Gas prices in Missouri are lower than the national average.

AAA says the statewide price is running about $2.93 a gallon. That’s 18-cents a gallon higher than a month ago. Locally, we’re at $2.95 in Adair county. About the same in surrounding counties…give a take a penny or two.

An Atlanta, Missouri man enters a guilty plea on a manslaughter charge from a deadly wreck two years ago.

34 year old Joseph Harring gets a suspended sentence — no prison time — but five years probation. He was charged in a wreck that happened in 2020 — when he crossed the center line forcing a pick-up driver to run off the road and crash

Amtrack will start running a morning train from Quincy to Chicago starting Monday. The route was stopped three months ago because of staffing problems. The four hour ride is popular during winter months because people can avoid possibly dangerous driving conditions