Hello everyone from the ville of Owens.

Roxie, you’re breaking up

Sorry Robert Cox. Everyone else is breaking up bad on my end. I think it is the internet connection in town today. Ugh.

Local real estate agent tells me this is a seller’s market and he’s doing his best year in home sales since 2004. Almost immediately noticed this since start of lockdown.

Waiting on next year’s census

We can tell ours is really out of date

Perryville: 95.5 percent white

16.9 percent college educated

Southeast

Central MO people — which side of the fed split do you fall under?

We saw that here too. April was close to normal, though.

Water and gas

And yet the governor is gutting the K-12 and higher education budgets.

our city waived business license fees for existing

We can’t see the webpage. We’re on the slides still.

I can see it

you’re good now

I didn't even know Family Dollar sold alcohol, the one that was here in Columbia never did.

Peggy Scott: that list has a lot of Crystal City businesses on it

It was very useful information, lots of great resources! Thanks so much!

Thanks, Marty. Good stuff!

Just had a car roll over into the ditch here at the Advocate. I'm probably going to miss the rest while I inter view people. Great show again today folks!

Katherine is also a mythical creature :)

https://perryvillenews.com/category/covid-19

https://www.myleaderpaper.com/coronavirus/

We always called it “baby reporting” after we were through the first class

I cover a lot of education stuff and they are all currently COVID stories right now too

Agree with Jay. Many of my government, education, etc. stories are also COVID stories.

It’s tiring, but it’s also gotten easier. I have done a weekly update on the status of the pandemic since March. It doesn’t take me very long to put it together anymore.

It helps that I have a good relationship with our health department.

I feel like at this point anything I write, I ask the question “how does COVID impact this?"

^^This^^

yup. almost every story I write has at least one COVID paragraph

I don’t know that anything I’ve written since late March hasn’t come to me COVID-first. Definitey have the COVID graf down.

Today’s dumba** comment on Facebook: “Without fear,worry,political bias and insecurity the newspaper would be the hometown newspaper I remember as a child 👍! Keep up the good work growing your business to where it is today. Unprofitable and Dying!”

Yikes!! Makes me glad people don’t comment on our Facebook very much

I have both KCMO Health Dept. and Jackson Co. Health Dept. in my coverage...and haven't been able to get them to tell me real numbers on WHERE the folks are located, specifically...and we're so spread out here that I can't report those numbers because they will be too vague, as far as location goes.

We have tons of interaction on Facebook. Here's one: Top FanTamara CollinsDennis Eaton don't you like how they dramatically post it all the time wondering just how much is actually true.

YES. Jackson County and KCMO are on completely different wavelengths when it comes to COVID. It's hard for me to keep up, let alone the general population.

This is what the Health Department is sending out now.

Our Health Department is reporting numbers in the same way

This is what they used yo send out:

*used to

I worked under Katherine fall 2011 and fall 2012

This is all we get from the Nodaway County Health Department when a new positive case is reported:

Press Release - June 17, 2020Nodaway County Health Department Administrator, Tom Patterson, announces a fifteenth individual in Nodaway County, Missouri has tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).The affected individuals are a male between 30-39 years of age and two females between 1-10 years of age. The affected individuals live in the same household, and are isolated in a private residence.The health department is currently working to notify those that have been deemed a close contact. If you are not contacted by the health department, then you are not considered a close contact and not at risk.The health department urges the public to practic

Wow ...

That’s … extremely not helpful.

Yep. And Tom refuses to make any statements to the media beyond what’s in the press release.

We don’t even know how many tests are being administered, or are even available. But a call to my doctor indicated that, unless you are extremely sick, you can’t get a test here because they don’t have enough even for the front-line workers.

We have 445 cases in Jefferson County and our Health Director is just doing FB live statements.

I’ve been told that only positive results are reportable.

On the state level they’re underreporting one death for our county and overreporting cases

Personally I trust our county health more but I have a good relationship with the dept.

http://mophep.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=8e01a5d8d8bd4b4f85add006f9e14a9d&fbclid=IwAR0hiMBbJ1_wY09x8VYwf6G92kP0E3HF4RJXwwOAkVcKTspbqtZzzgGxE8E

yeah, we’ve decided to go with our county data. it seems like the state has been delayed for us

County here too.

A trucking company recently put refrigerator trucks in an old car dealership and every few weeks someone will ask if they’re to hold dead bodies from the pandemic

You mean more research than watching a couple Youtube videos?!

I got my second wind in late April.

None here, yet

There is information that there is going to be an outbreak with college students because there's been a couple that were at a LARGE pool party earlier this week that have tested positive already. So, I guess we see how that's reported with Boone Co.

We will see

I think how the state’s colleges and universities are planning to handle this will be the next big story for newspapers in college communities. Near as I can tell, and I’m speaking as a college media adviser talking to other advisers in the state, no two schools are following the same policies for reopening.