Leopold Cabin is where Starker Leopold lived in the 1940s, in what is now Caney Mountain Conservation Area, while he worked to revive the wild turkey population in Missouri.Â
Crockett Oaks Jr. was one of the last students to attend the one-room schoolhouse in West Plains that served Black students. His son, Crockett Oaks III, has purchased the school and is preserving it as a cultural center.
Missouri’s Taum Sauk disaster recovery money: Where did millions go? Who benefited?
In December 2005, the dam at the Taum Sauk Reservoir failed, sending more than a billion gallons of water down the mountain and badly damaging surrounding areas. Missouri set aside millions of dollars to revive the area.
In a series of columns, Tony Messenger uncovers how that money was spent and who benefited. Â
Money went to businesses with ties to the oversight board. There's a weak paper trail for some payments. And some companies had questionable links to tourism.
'I only stepped up because I needed some of the money for my project.' That raises troubling questions about state funding for the Taum Sauk flooding mess.
A whistleblower on Taum Sauk recovery money gave his file to the sheriff. But the sheriff is now tangled in a 'criminal street gang' case. Welcome to Iron County.
Jay Nixon, Missouri’s ex-governor, created the Taum Sauk Fund to help communities recover from the disaster. It hasn’t worked out the way he planned.
A political consultant asked for records about an incident at the St. Francois County Jail. Then the computer system crashed.
Leopold Cabin is where Starker Leopold lived in the 1940s, in what is now Caney Mountain Conservation Area, while he worked to revive the wild turkey population in Missouri.Â
