US Business
Tesla’s Model Y Investigated After Steering Wheels Detach
The NHTSA opened an investigation into the Model Y SUV after receiving two reports that the steering wheel of 2023 models had detached while driving.
Articles by Erin Slifka
Education
Crowder College Roughrider eNews – March 6, 2023
(Neosho, MO) – Stay up to date on news from Crowder College and know what’s happening on and off campus! Academics The spring semester has already begun, but you can still enroll in a second eight-week course between […]
US Business
U.S. Shale Boom Shows Signs of Peaking as Big Oil Wells Disappear
America’s biggest oil gushers are shrinking, evidence that companies have drilled through much of their best wells and are poised to reach a plateau in productivity.
US Business
Documents From Fox Defamation Suit Spotlight Tension Between Prime-Time Hosts and News Personnel
The documents, made public in litigation between voting-machine company Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News, depict an organization scrambling over how to cover Donald Trump’s failed bid for re-election.
US Business
FTC Twitter Probe Sought Musk’s Communications
The agency also asked the company to “identify all journalists” granted access to company records, according to documents obtained by a House panel that shed light on the probe into Twitter’s compliance with a settlement.
US Business
Justice Department Sues to Block JetBlue-Spirit Merger
The complaint alleges the deal would eliminate Spirit as an ultra-low-cost competitor to major carriers.
Government
City of Joplin Announces Joplin Police Chief Rowland Plans to Retire June 1, 2023
(Joplin, MO) – City Manager Nick Edwards announces that Police Chief Sloan Rowland will retire on June 1, 2023, from the Joplin Police Department, following a 35-year career in various public safety positions. Rowland has […]
US Business
Starbucks Chief to Testify Before Senate Panel, Sen. Sanders Says
Starbucks interim CEO Howard Schultz agreed to testify before the committee, the latest development in the conflict between the company and baristas seeking to unionize.
Small Business/Startups
Deadline Approaching in Kansas for SBA Working Capital Loans Due to Drought
(Sacramento, CA) – Director Tanya N. Garfield of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded small nonfarm businesses in five Kansas counties and neighboring counties in Missouri and Oklahoma of the April 3, 2023, […]
Health Care
Freeman Health System Hosts Cat in the Hat Reading Event
(Joplin, MO) – Dr. Seuss once said: “You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.” On Thursday, March 2, Freeman Health System’s President and Chief […]