Published Sunday, July 27, 2008
THE TRIBUNE'S VIEW
For governor
By HENRY J. WATERS III, Publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune
I believe I have made it clear I cannot support either of the Republican
candidates for governor this year because of their unequivocal support for
Christian-right conservative initiatives as public policy.
JOHN DARKOW CARTOON
HOT FLASHES
Deer stay in our headlights
By SHARON HARL
My latest tale of woe involves our lake home and the local deer. I know there is a problem in Columbia, too, but here the deer are citified. The ones down around Osage Beach are a bunch of country bumpkins. They have no manners.
OPEN COLUMN
Tribune should be careful whose names get printed
Editor, the Tribune: Imagine the horror I felt when a police officer came to my door and told me that my ex-husband had committed suicide.
OPEN COLUMN
How do abortion rights relate to privacy rights?
Editor, the Tribune: If the five Roman Catholics who packed the U.S. Supreme Court decided to destroy more than 35 years of abortion rights because they don’t believe women’s privacy conforms to the novel and radical theory of "original intent," just what would that do to the American peoples’ right to use contraception?
OPEN COLUMN
A tribute to an amazing teacher who passed on
Editor, the Tribune: On June 21, Allene Jones, my former teacher and friend of 40 years, passed away. The following tribute is for an extraordinary teacher:
Can we mock Barack, please?
By MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON - When I interviewed Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for Rolling Stone a couple years ago, I wondered what Barack Obama would mean for them.
Hard work makes good students
By WALTER WILLIAMS
"Hard Times at Douglass High" is an HBO documentary that aired in June. It captured much of the 2004-2005 school year at Baltimore’s predominantly black Frederick Douglass High School. The tragedy is that what is seen in the documentary is typical of most predominantly black urban schools.
Would the real Jesse Jackson please shut up?
By BOB RAY SANDERS
Would somebody please tell Jesse Jackson to go somewhere - anywhere - and sit down?
Iraqi leader’s Obama talk hurts McCain
By DICK POLMAN
Imagine my surprise on July 19 to discover in my e-mail inbox a news bulletin from the White House, calling attention to an interview that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had just given to the German newspaper Der
Spiegel.
