Cassettes have been off of the shelves in most stores for years now, but in the heart of Downtown Springfield exists the source of most new cassettes made in the United States. The National Audio Company produces around 90 percent of the cassettes in the western hemisphere. While cassettes have been on the way out [...]
Google’s Fusion Tables application is a great way to dynamically display information online for reader to use and understand. They allow for a variety of different data displays such as maps and graphs as seen below: You can watch a set of tutorials on how to use Google Fusion Tables here:Part 1Part 2The source files [...]
Small and large businesses across Missouri compete for customers this holiday season. Downtown stores in Springfield have more unique clothes because they are not mass produced like mall stores, said Alison Hebron, a graduate student at MSU and Envy customer. Different types of stores offer various products. Smaller businesses can have the competitive advantage of being able to produce [...]
The Lady Bears defeated the University of Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans 73-50 Tuesday at JQH Arena improving to 3-2 on the season. Senior Casey Garrison had 18 points while seniors Jasmine Malone and Jaleshia Roberson both had 13 points. This was the first home game back for Malone after coming off of a suspension. The Lady [...]
The Missouri State Bears topped the Emporia State Hornets 71-45 in the home opener Saturday at JQH Arena. The game was also the first regular season game for new head coach Paul Lusk. Lusk took over for Cuonzo Martin this season after Martin left to take the head coaching position at the University of Tennessee. After [...]
Veterans and musicians from around the area gathered on Missouri State’s campus Friday for the second-annual playing of taps in honor of Veteran’s Day. The event featured 73 musicians from Veterans to high school and college band members to MSU, Drury University and Evangel University students who spread out across campus and played taps in sequence. The playing [...]
Ozarks Mountain Creamery in Mountain Grove, Mo. is like few other dairies in Missouri as they use a vat pasteurization process and have their own milk source. “Since we are family owned, 100 percent comes from our dairy,” partner Teresa Fry says. ”We know what goes into our cows.” The dairy distributes to many large and small stores in Missouri. [...]
I recently had the opportunity to attend the National College Media Convention sponsored by the Associated Collegiate Press in Orlando. This conference brought many journalism students from around the country to meet and hear sessions by some of the best in the industry. I’m going to go through and list out my highlights from the [...]
Violent crime over the last six months showed a fairly large fluctuation – with the most being in July and May. Violent crime is categorized as robberies or assaults on someone. “The number one underlying factor is that people do not interact with their neighbors like they used to,” Cpl. Matt Brown of the Springfield [...]
Continuing our analysis on crime in Springfield, violent crime over the six month period we’re looking at (we only did six months because data was not available for time before that) showed a fairly large fluxuation in crime – with the most being in July and May. For our analysis, violent crime is categorized as robberies or assaults on [...]
