Jack Miller

Jack’s Mid-Missouri Memory: Characters Make a Memory
Jack’s Mid-Missouri Memory: Characters Make a Memory
Jack’s Mid-Missouri Memory: Characters Make a Memory
In 2014 I lost two more people I grew up with in the 40’s and 50s. They were people I thought would live forever, but I guess that was because that is the way we think as kids. These two will join the others who made up my life back then, and now are no longer around...
Jack’s Mid-Missouri Memory: My Spirit is 76
Jack’s Mid-Missouri Memory: My Spirit is 76
Jack’s Mid-Missouri Memory: My Spirit is 76
Hi I’m Jack Miller, and today’s mid-Missouri Memory is about a very special birthday. On Tuesday, October the 7th, I will reach another milestone in my life. Like all of my birthdays I like to tie it to something more important than myself...
Behind The Mic: Jack Miller
Behind The Mic: Jack Miller
Behind The Mic: Jack Miller
You have long got to know our on-air personnel, during the course of shows and news. We now get a chance to go back behind the mic. This episode features our Newsman for Better Country, KIX 105; 92.3 Bob-FM and Newstalk 1050 KSIS, Jack Miller...
Jack Miller’s Mid-Missouri Memories – Walking and Talking
Jack Miller’s Mid-Missouri Memories – Walking and Talking
Jack Miller’s Mid-Missouri Memories – Walking and Talking
One day not long ago, as I was driving through Sedalia, I saw three young boys walking along the street laughing and playing. It reminded me of my days as a boy on the east side of Sedalia, walking the same streets with my friends. Sometime we would just walk and talk about things like our favorite movie, or hero or some other thing that had caught our interest since our last walk and talk. Someti
Jack Miller’s Mid-Missouri Memories: My Time As a Superhero
Jack Miller’s Mid-Missouri Memories: My Time As a Superhero
Jack Miller’s Mid-Missouri Memories: My Time As a Superhero
As a boy, I went through a hero worship stage just like all children do. I wanted to be a fireman every time I saw that big fire engine go by, and I wanted to be a policeman when a black and white passed the house with its siren screaming. I also pictured myself as a Cowboy with the big hat, or an Indian galloping after a buffalo herd as I watched them streak across the movie screen. But I also wa
Jack’s Mid-Missouri Memories: Little Things Grandmas Do
Jack’s Mid-Missouri Memories: Little Things Grandmas Do
Jack’s Mid-Missouri Memories: Little Things Grandmas Do
As we approach another holiday season, I can’t help but think of my late grandmother Wickliffe. I think that's because like grandma, my wife Marlene is busy this time of the year making memories with our grandchildren in her kitchen the way my grandma did, especially during the Holidays. Like my grandma, Marlene does all the little things with our grandchildren that will make them remember her as
The Passing of Ike Skelton: A Personal Note
The Passing of Ike Skelton: A Personal Note
The Passing of Ike Skelton: A Personal Note
I have interviewed a lot of politicians as a newsman. Some I liked talking to and some were just part of my job. Ike Skelton was someone I liked talking to, something that had nothing to do with his political leanings.
Jack’s Mid-Missouri Memories: October, My Favorite Month
Jack’s Mid-Missouri Memories: October, My Favorite Month
Jack’s Mid-Missouri Memories: October, My Favorite Month
It may be because I was born in October, or that I joined the Navy in October, or the fact that mosquitoes no longer buzz around my head in October, or it could be that I wrote this piece in October, and the day was so perfect I can't imagine wanting to go past it.  I think October is the month when the earth makes an almost audible sigh in Missouri, and says, "Now I can rest for a while.&quo

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