If you’ve been reading my byline in the Leader, you know that I spell my first name differently than most people with the name Carson.

My favorite genre of book to read is dystopian. There’s something exciting reading about the collapse of society, whether it be from drought, …

I feel like there is hardly a week in my life that I do not encounter some sort of nickeling and diming situation while attempting to purchase…

Community journalism can be the heartbeat of a town.

I Googled “neediest dog breeds” to see where the Doberman pinscher lands. Based on all the posts I’ve seen in Facebook Doberman groups, I was …

The possibility of a data center coming to Festus has been the hot topic over the past few months, ever since the city’s officials began takin…

I would like to start out by saying I’m as infatuated with social media as most people.

Whenever a federally funded program comes up in conversation, whether it be single-payer health care; free preschool or college; free school l…

The future is a weird place. Those of us of a certain age seem to have trouble understanding or latching onto the predictions of what we are t…

I learned from my mother how great it feels to give to others during the Christmas season. She had so little but was always eager to share it,…