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A move to establish guidelines for holding City of Lake Ozark meetings by electronic means has been tabled.

Lake Ozark discuss possibility of allowing board members to attend city meetings virtually Dan Field newsroom@lakesunonline.com Consideration of an ordinance allowing for city board and commission member attendance of city meetings by electronic means evolved into a discussion about the importance of attending meetings in person. Ultimately, the board voted during its regular meeting Tuesday, May 11, to table a decision to gauge input from the public and for more consideration. The authorization for electronic meetings applies to the board of aldermen and any commission authorized by city cod...

Lake Ozark City Administrator Dave Van Dee retires Dan Field newsroom@lakesunonline.com After 37 years in public office, Lake Ozark City Administrator Dave Van Dee is retiring from public service. Van Dee, who has been with Lake Ozark 12 years, announced his resignation and retirement in a letter to the mayor and board of aldermen April 28. His resignation is effective Oct. 29. “I have enjoyed my tenure in public service and more specifically my time serving as the city administrator for the City of Lake Ozark,” he said in his letter of resignation. “It has been a unique experience.” ...

Naomi Schaefer Riley Senior Fellow Naomi Schaefer Riley is a weekly columnist for the New York Post and a former Wall Street Journal editor and writer whose work focuses on higher education, religion, philanthropy and culture. She is the author, most recently, of “Got Religion?: How Churches, Mosques, and Synagogues Can Bring Young People Back” (Templeton Press, 2014) and “Opportunity and Hope: Transforming Children’s Lives through Scholarships” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). Her book, “‘Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage is Transforming America” (Oxford, 2013), was ...

How to read a society The original source of this quote from Theodore Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels) appears to date to a 2005 Frontpage article or interview that is no longer accessible online: Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are f...