Apr. 9—Long have I held the view that Joplin is like a big airport with restaurants circling it looking for a place to land. Right now, there might be as many as six restaurants circling Joplin. The ...

Oct. 7—If you could pick a time to build a new restaurant or redo an old one on Range Line Road, this might be an opportune moment to do that. The ongoing construction of a new railroad overpass at ...

Sep. 13—Longtime owners of some Range Line businesses oppose the city allowing an alley on their block to be rerouted to accommodate a new drive-thru coffee shop. The Joplin City Council will be asked ...

Closure of a section of Joplin’s south Range Line Road to replace the bridge over the Kansas City Southern Railway line could begin as soon as the third week of April, an engineer with the Missouri ...