If modat don’t make a detour for traffic coming from New Franklin, Boonville could lose some business because i have Heard people say they would go to Columbia before going on the chug hole filled road from Franklin to Highway 40
In a fit of exuberance I posted an email yesterday that wasn’t for KWRT but for Robin my wife who is a chamber board member.
The email was about the Katy Bridge and I should have read it closer.
I am sorry to all those who were upset about it, I had no intention of “Upstaging” anyone. It was just a honest mistake.
Will it happen again? I hope not, but I am human and have made mistakes in the past and I will make them again. I will do the best that I can to not make the same mistake twice. (at least not right away) 
I truly apologize.
Matt Billings
Janet wins the Free Breadaux Pizza for her News Tipabout the incident at Pilot involving a subject fighting with police and getting himself injured in the process. The individual has been charged with multipal serious charges. Thanks again Janet! You can win a Breadeaux Pizza also by calling KWRT 24 hours a day with your news tip 660-882-6686 be first and win a Pizza! How easy can it be?
We enjoyed the chamber annual meeting very very much. We had not been able to attend for a number of years, and it was wonderful to see and visit with some familiar folks and also make aquaintance with some new people. The whole evening was memorable, and congratulations to KWRT and their staff for their award!
We, along with all that were there, were extremely fortunate to be able to be entertained by the RIVER CITY SINGERS: Tanner Bechtel, Arjan Hodges, Josh Kluck & Tanjie Hoover. What extrordinary talent. The harmony was unbelievable. Hopefully Tanner will keep us informed through KWRT when this group makes a CD = anxiously await getting our hands on one.
Thanks to all at the Chamber that made this evening very enjoyable for us and everyone else in attendance.
Irene & Geoff Haning
Originally Posted November 3 2009.
I thought it was worth posting again.
This is Matt Billings General manager of KWRT. Recent events have made it necessary for me to address our policy for news at KWRT. KWRT will never ever Sensationalize, Fabricate, Opinionate, a news story period. KWRT will never become the story, we will not place ourselves in the news story to build listenership. KWRT will report ONLY the facts during our news. In todays rush by other news media to become the story we have chosen to follow principals of integrity and honor when reporting the news. When you listen to KWRT news you can be assured that it is factual, honest, and free of any vendettas. This pledge I make to you our listeners. You can continue to trust in us to bring you the news free of sensationalism or fabrication. Thanks for making us your #1 source for news in the boonslick area. I’m Matt Billings General Manager of KWRT
I realize that Dane has a life but this is 3 weeks of not having Sat. Morning party line. We dont get any local news or obituaries from 10 am Friday morning until Monday. Why cant someone be hired to fill in or maybe even a College student studying to do this kind of work to fill in so we can get local news and have party line. I am just curious.
Tell us what you think of our new Music Format. It is called “True Country” it is a mix of the “Classic Country” with the new stuff. We hope you like it!
Matt and Robin
Thanks isle of capri for the free dinners to the men and ladies and the free gifts that you give us for are birthday bash. thank you again
Napolitano & Gibbs come out Sunday and said “the system worked”. This was ’spin’ at its worst, and I’m sure Axelrod and Rahm E. were also behind this effort to ’shield’ this administration from any blame. Then Obama himself doesn’t respond to this terrorist try until three days after it happened. Obama had a more quick response to one of his house guests’ kid who was hurt = he left his golf game and hurried back to his compound right away = too bad the security of the USA doesn’t get at least an equal response time to a terrorist try.
Some people may finally be starting to understand what many of us have known since before the 2008 election. Obama has no relevent experience to deal with terrorism effectively, and he cannot make a timely decision. Yes, he mulls things over to get all the facts (sometimes) before he makes a statement, and then the statement is so watered down that it becomes meaningless, and many times encourages the terrorists. This happened in this case as he had to come out again the next day after his first statement to put a little ‘teeth’ into the issue. This still though wasn’t a strong enough response in my book.
What should he have done? Came out on Christmas day following this ‘incident’ and say ‘we are going after the terrorists and Imans in Yemen connected with this terrorist act and won’t rest until they are brought to justice’, and then actually do it! It could have been a great moment for him and effective in fighting this war on terror, but alas it was not to be. I fear the next time, we won’t be as lucky as we were this 2009 Christmas.
I was outside shoveling snow this weekend and the Boonville City workers were out in my neighborhood numerous times clearing the streets. I know they must have missed holiday time with their families so I just wanted to say Thank You!! Keep up the GREAT work! The streets are in great shape today thanks to all of your hard work!