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4 min to read Organizers of a recall petition drive targeting six Joplin City Council members did not submit any petitions ahead of the deadline to have the issue considered for placement on the April 6 election ballot. Joplin resident Abbie Covington, who is working on the petition drive that had already been put on hold once, would not say how many signatures have been obtained. She said the delay is intentional to give residents time to consider the need for a recall. "In order to get it on the next ballot in April, we would need to turn all our signatures in by tomorrow," s...

2 min to read The Joplin City Council on Monday adopted a city vision statement and the goals that were distilled in part from what City Manager Nick Edwards called a listening tour. Edwards gathered input on Joplin's strengths and its needs by both talking to residents and collecting input via a survey that was filled out by about 1,400 residents. Edwards and his staff compiled an 80-page report to categorize the comments. The council met in a daylong session Nov. 30 to discuss the results of the study, and select initiatives and projects the members thought were viewed by res...

2 min to read Joplin's COVID-19 status is improving and the number of people in hospitals because of the virus is dropping, the City Council was told Monday night. Dan Pekarek, assistant city manager and former city health department director, said the the city's seven-day average of cases per day is hovering in the low 30s. That is down from 52 around the time the council reinstated a mask mandate Nov. 19. "We're happy it dropped that much," he said. "It kind of stabilized" in the low 30s, and that is one of the metrics health authorities are watching. The 14-day number of cas...

2 min to read Joplin's COVID-19 status is improving and the number of people in hospitals because of the virus is dropping, the City Council was told Monday night. Dan Pekarek, assistant city manager and former city health department director, said the the city's seven-day average of cases per day is hovering in the low 30s. That is down from 52 around the time the council reinstated a mask mandate Nov. 19. "We're happy it dropped that much," he said. "It kind of stabilized" in the low 30s, and that is one of the metrics health authorities are watching. The 14-day number of cas...

3 min to read A residents’ committee that monitors and reports on the spending of the city of Joplin’s special sales tax revenue has called for the City Council to put a use tax question on the ballot again. “The tax is currently being collected by the state, but we are not receiving our portion because we haven’t passed the use tax as a community,” said Morris Glaze, a former council member who serves as the chairman of the Capital Improvements Sales Tax Oversight Committee. Glaze said six of the committee’s members who attended a quarterly meetin...