What Bellwether: Did race make the difference in Missouri?
By TERRY GANEY of the Tribune’s staff
Amid all the excitement and enthusiasm over Democrat Barack Obama’s historic election as president last week is the sobering realization that Missouri is no longer a good harbinger of political events.

TRIBUNE COLUMN
Readers reminisce about MU football, new golf carts
By WARREN DALTON
This week I’m happy to share a couple of more remembrance stories from you, the readers. First is Walter Marsh, who lives in Ashland, Ore., followed by Scott Bess.

HAPPY TAILS TIPS
Kids’ essays show how pets enhance childhood
By JIM JOHNSON
OK, so Happy Tails recently finished its annual Columbia Public Schools Essay Contest, and we have been reading and reading and reading. In the eight or nine years that we have been doing the contest, this year’s entries far outnumber previous years’.