France

I have friends who think that just because I was born and raised in Missouri that I'm not a man of the world. That's incorrect and I can prove it with science. There's a new survey that shows many Missourians would love to live abroad and you'll never guess what their #1 city desire is.

I've heard it said that perception is reality. The problem is that my perception about one of Missouri's most iconic fountains is wrong. What I think of as vintage Missouri actually came to the Show Me State from France. Oui.

This is a difficult subject for me to tackle since I struggle with my mother tongue of English. That's why it's tough for me to defend us Midwesterners from an allegation on Twitter that we can't say French words correctly. Bon jour?

Masked gunmen shouting "Allahu akbar!" stormed the Paris offices of a satirical newspaper Wednesday, killing 12 people, including the paper's editor and a cartoonist, before escaping in a getaway car. It was France's deadliest terror attack in at least two decades.