We live in a great time in history, from a “let my voice be heard” perspective.  No longer is reporting, opinions, and editorials reserved for magazine, newspaper, or other media outlets.  Nope, today you can jump on the internet, fire up a blog and toss out whatever is on your mind.  Sometimes that is good, and sometimes it’s not so good.  Really, you just have to take it all in with a grain of salt and understand that one person’s outlook on life isn’t the same as another.

This, my friends, is my soapbox.  I feel the need to share my home town with you.  The good and the bad.  I’ve grown up and have been living in the same town, St. Clair, my entire life.  St. Clair is a small town about 50+ miles southwest of St. Louis nearly in the heart of the great state of Missouri.  We only have a little over 4,800 people who live there, work there, own businesses there, go to school there, attend church there, skip church and go fishing there, coach and play little league sports there, raise their families there and just do everything a small town in America has to offer.  We have our highs and we also have our lows and I’ll try my best to explore them all with accuaracy but with my own spin.  I openly invite you to share your thoughts through comments as I post, just in case you have a differing opinion.

So what’s my motive for this blog?  A handful of reasons could be:

• I’m tired of only having two pages of St. Clair news in the local newspaper if we’re lucky
• I want to report the good parts of St. Clair that are often overlooked
• I want to address issues that hopefully can be resolved

I hope that along the way, you can trust me to bring you St. Clair from a fair and honest viewpoint.  Honesty can be rough sometimes, especially when I review some place I’ve been or a person I’ve encountered or share my opinion about something, but I think it’s important to gain your trust.  I won’t report anything without investigating or experiencing it myself.  I’ll save gossiping for other people.

So with all this being said, please join me in future posts as we explore the wonderful town of St. Clair, Missouri with The Voice.