Copies of my new book Running Circles Around the Globe: 20 Years of the Turner Report arrived in Joplin Sunday and will be delivered to Joplin retail outlets today (Monday) and tomorrow.
Signed copies of the book will be available at Always Buying Books, 5357 N. Main, after 10 a.m. today and at The Book Guy, 708 E. 15th, after 11 a.m.
The book, which commemorates the 20th anniversary of the launching of the Turner Report in October 2003, includes the following:
-More than 60 pages devoted to the 2017 death of 3-year-old Jayda Kyle of Carl Junction, including new never before published information about a key person connected to the investigation
-A detailing of the road that led to the creation of the Turner Report
-A follow up look at former Joplin Mayor Mike Woolston, who is running for Jasper County Commission, including details of allegations against him that came to light after the publication of my 2015 book Silver Lining in a Funnel Cloud: Greed, Corruption and the Joplin Tornado.
-Reliving the Wallace Bajjali fiasco, including an examination of the role Joplin elites played in brining in and propping up the con artists
-An examination of Judge Dean Dankelson's role in many of the scandals that took place over the past several years, including some in his own election
-A closer look at three of the incidents that made former Joplin R-8 superintendent C. J. Huff the punchline to a joke that wasn't so funny- the 6 1/2 mile ribbon, the $100,000 wrong-colored bleachers and the failed inspection of the new Joplin High School.
-My thoughts on the death of Webb City High School freshman and Afghan refugee Rezwan Kohistani and how it was handled by the Webb City R-7 School District and the Webb City Police Department
-A blast from the past circa 2005- my criticism of KSN's 5 p.m. newscast with Tiffany Alaniz and Gary Bandy and the blistering response from Tiffany Alaniz
-The Joplin Blasters and other great ideas Joplin elites
-Thoughts on the resignation of a gay Neosho High School teacher after he wasn't allowed to display a pride flag in his classroom
-And finally, a remembrance of an event I will never forget- the events of September 11, 2017, when a man who was unhappy with things I wrote about him (charges of driving while intoxicated for the sixth time and statutory sodomy) came to my apartment and sucker punched me.
Running Circles Around the Globe is a combination of new original reporting, thoughts about some of the things I wrote about over the past 20 years, and a look back at some of my commentary from the past two decades.
If you are not in the Joplin area, the book is available in paperback and e-book formats at the Amazon link below:
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