The conservation department’s agents have looked under 47-hundred oak trees to forecast this year’s deer-kill. A good year for acorns will mean an decent but not record-breaking season for deer hunters. The red oak acorn crop is up two percent from last year and the white oak acorn crop is up nine percent in Missouri. It’s the second straight year for a bumper acorn crop. And deer biologist Lonnie Hanson says that’s likely to mean a second straight season that will require some extra work by hunters. Why? It’s because the deer won’t have to move around as much as they would move if they had to look for food. He says hunters are not as successful in the Ozarks as they are when the acorn crop is down a deer have to do more foraging. In a bad acorn year, deer will go to fields and open areas where they’re more vulnerable to hunters…as was the case in the record kill year of 2004. His advice for deer hunters in acorn areas—The smart hunter should be in the woods where there are a lot of oaks–where acorns are…and therefore, where the deer are. The season for firearms hunters begins Saturday. He thinks it will be good overall because deer numbers are strong—and outstanding in north Missouri where the acorn influence is much less.
Libertarian Doesn’t Think Much of Talent-McCaskill Race
A candidate on the ballot tomorrow says he offers an alternative for voters who’ve had enough of both Republican Jim Talent and Democrat Claire McCaskill. Libertarian Frank Gilmour has been watching the developments in the Talent-McCaskill race; a tough, expensive Senate race that could determine whether Republicans keep control of the US Senate or lose it to Democrats Gilmour calls the race a waste of money. He says Talent and McCaskill are only bickering about each other. Gilmour complains that the campaign has ignored what he considers to be the biggest issue in the campaign; the growing national debt. Gilmour says the national debt has to be tackled by cutting spending to rein in annual deficits. He says Congress has to cut the budget to balance the budget. Gilmour says only when spending comes into alignment with the revenue the government receives will Congress be able to trim the national debt, which now exceeds $8.5 trillion. Gilmour is one of two so-called third party candidates on the ballot tomorrow. Progessive Party candidate, Lydia Lewis, also is on the ballot for US Senate.
Related web sites:
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Lewis for Senate
Members of National Guard Unit Return from Middle East
Members of a Springfield National Guard unit have come home after 352 days in the Middle East. The 1107th Aviation Classification Repair Activity Depot will spend a few days debriefing at Fort Leonard Wood before a homecoming ceremony in Springfield on Thursday. This was the second time the unit has been in the Middle East.
"Generation Jones" Voters Viewed as Crucial to Victory in Senate Race
The candidates in Missouri’s U.S. Senate race are getting in their last couple of days of campaigning prior to voters going to the polls on Tuesday – reaching out to their bases as well as to undecided voters. A national political consultant suggests incumbent Republican Senator Jim Talent and Democrat challenger Claire McCaskill reach out to the people who make up “Generation Jones.”
Commentator Jonathan Pontell coined the term “Generation Jones” for the group of people born between 1954 and 1965 – the group between the Baby Boomers and the Generation Xers. He says the Jonesers are traditonal values voters who have voted Republican in recent elections, but are evenly split in this race. Pontell says that while the Baby Boomers are among the most liberal voters and Generation Xers are among the most conservative voters, the Generation Jonesers are swing voters, making up about 27 to 30 percent of the electorate.
Cornhuskers Tame Tigers 34-20 in Lincoln
The largest crowd ever to see a football game in Lincoln, Nebraska – 85,197 – leaves Memorial Stadium happy as the Nebraska Cornhuskers lead from start to finish, beating the Missouri Tigers 34-20.
Nebraska jumped out to a quick 17-0 lead. Wide receiver Maurice Purify passed for one touchdown and caught another. His 28-yard pass to Terrence Nunn gave Nebraska its first major of the day late in the 1st quarter. Early in the 2nd quarter, Purify caught a 7-yard toss from Zac Taylor, who passed for 208 yards on the day, including two touchdowns.
Jeff Wolfert’s 26-yard field goal with 9:58 remaining in the 2nd quarter gave Mizzou its first points of the day. The Huskers stretched their lead to 27-3 before Wolfert struck again, this time from 54 yards out – his career longest – as the 1st half ended.
Mizzou managed a two touchdowns in the 2nd half. Chase Daniel hit Martin Rucker with a 6-yard pass to make the score 27-13. But Nebraska wasted little time regaining its 21 point lead on a 2-yard Brandon Jackson touchdown run that capped a 13 play, 85-yard drive. Mizzou hit paydirt again with 8:10 remaining in the game as Chase Daniel connected on a 19-yard touchdown pass to Chase Coffman to complete an 18 play, 80-yard scoring drive. But that was the end of the scoring, with the Cornhuskers holding onto their two converted touchdown lead.
The loss all but eliminates the Tigers from a shot at winning the Big 12 North. Missouri is now 7-3 on the season, 3-3 in the Big 12. The Huskers and Tigers each have two games remaining. Nebraska (7-3, 4-2) needs any combination of one win or one Missouri loss in those remaining games to secure a spot in the Big 12 title game in Kansas City.
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