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Senator, Chairman of Subcommittee on Financial & Contracting Oversight, will hold September hearing Washington, D.C. – Following the fatal shooting of teenager Michael Brown by a Ferguson, Mo. police officer, and subsequent clashes between local police and protesters, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill will lead a Senate hearing to examine the militarization of state and local police departments. McCaskill’s hearing will begin at 10:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday, September 9 in Dirksen Senate Office Building, SD-342. Specifically, McCaskill—Chairman of the Subcommittee on Financial & Contracting Oversight— will use the hearing to examine federal programs that enable local police departments to acquire military equipment, such as the Defense Department’s 1033 program for surplus property and grants made through the Departments of Justice and Homeland

Poplar Bluff, Mo. - Super-fast gigabit-class Internet is coming to Poplar Bluff, Missouri. NewWave Communications is deploying Version 3.1 of DOCSIS (the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification), the next generation and new standard in cable technology, in the fourth quarter of 2014 and expects to deliver 1-gigabit Internet service. The upgrade of NewWave’s Poplar Bluff system has been underway for months beginning at the time the system was purchased from The City of Poplar Bluff in April 2014. NewWave’s investment in new technology for its small-to-mid sized markets will make available Internet speeds up to 100 times faster than the national average. While other companies are promoting gigabit speeds in select major metropolitan cities, NewWave is proud to be at

Senator to visit Pershing VA Medical Center and VA West Plains Community-Based Outpatient Clinic to hear directly from veterans, announce expansion of Veterans Customer Satisfaction Program survey POPLAR BLUFF/WEST PLAINS – U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill will visit John J. Pershing Medical Center and the VA’s West Plains Community-Based Outpatient Clinic on Tuesday to meet with area veterans and VA administrators, and announce the expansion of her veterans customer satisfaction survey to the southeast Missouri region. In Poplar Bluff, McCaskill will hold a media availability following her visit with executives at Pershing VA Medical Center at 10:45 a.m. CT on Tuesday, August 26.  In West Plains, McCaskill will hold a media availability following her tour of the VA West Plains Outpatient Clinic at 12:45 p.m. CT

[From left] R-I Superintendent Chris Hon, Sheryl Talkington, Tamara Lewis, Mike Morrow, Caleb Morrow, Jay Dowd and Heath Willis receive a standing ovation during a special recognition prior the opening game against Fox. POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. - Poplar Bluff High School sophomore Caleb Morrow and his first responders received a standing ovation from the crowd during the Mules Football opener of the varsity season on Friday, Aug. 22, at Fred M. Morrow Stadium. “Ladies and gentlemen, please give Caleb, his mother Tamara Lewis and father Mike Morrow, and these fine Samaritans a big welcoming round of applause,” announced Jim Carrier over the PA system. Caleb was able to return to school last week after the 15-year-old collapsed at the start

Agriculture is the number one industry in Missouri. Our Eighth Congressional District is home to a great variety of agricultural interests. Our district is one of the most diverse agriculture districts in the country growing everything except sugar and citrus fruits. In the fertile Missouri Bootheel we grow cotton, rice, corn, soybeans, wheat, peanuts and even raise catfish. In stark contrast to the Bootheel stand the Ozark Foothills where we have cattle, dairy and timber producers. This week and next, I am traveling our district and listening to the challenges farm families are facing on my two week Farm Tour. Although each farm is unique and each crop or animal raised is different, the message from each visit is the