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Campaign promises and impassioned pleas for votes were on the menu for Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden on Thursday when he became the first candidate to visit Missouri Western’s campus during an election year.   
Biden minced no words on hot button topics such as the economy and tax relief to the sold out crowd of [...]

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Democratic vice presidential nominee Senator Joe Biden will become the first presidential ticket member to speak at Missouri Western when he addresses the crowd at the Looney complex today.
Biden, who is fresh off his debate with the Republican vice president candidate Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, will speak to a crowd of 500 at the Looney [...]

Each year’s Convocation allows for a special dinner the night before that allows patrons to meet the guest speaker.
The married political pundits, James Carville and Mary Matalin, spoke to a capacity crowd at the Fulkerson Center Monday night for the 15th annual Dan Boulware Convocation on Critical Issues dinner that helps fund each year’s speaker. [...]

Since his major label debut in 2001, Andrew W.K. has made a song-writing career from a party hard attitude that stems from a personal ethos rather than excess.
During the downtime between tours, he has been working on a new kind of performance that he has labeled ‘happenings’. Part spoken word, part motivational, but all fun, [...]

Blue Oyster Culture Club resurrects hair metal, pop
Mullets have nearly disappeared from Joetown. Acid-wash jeans have been relegated to the darkest parts of an aging heavy metal drummer’s closet. The 80s are finally dead, long live the 80s.
But if you closed your eyes as you walked into the Rendezvous Saturday night, you would have [...]

 Kings and queens. Moving into position and attacking while defending everything you have at the same time. Trapping your opponents into making a move that they can’t get out of.  It may sound like chess but to local poker players, the differences are negligible.
Texas Hold ‘em is known as the Cadillac of poker games and [...]