Published Saturday, October 4, 2008
THE TRIBUNE'S VIEW
Oil
By HENRY J. WATERS III, Publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune
Political candidates, and others assuming knowing roles, talk incessantly about what the government should do about energy supplies and prices. As if any one of them can or should do much at all.
TRIB
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"In response to the city’s new blue bag ordinance, why don’t you, instead of putting your cans out in the blue bags out to the curb, why not take them over to Civic Recycling and sell those cans to Civic Recycling, get that money for yourself and do not
recycle..."
PAID ELECTION LETTER
Kelly what the doctor
ordered for vet school
Editor, the Tribune: Chris Kelly’s radio ads say correctly that he was instrumental in the 1990s in obtaining funding for a new University of Missouri veterinary medicine building, but he did more than that.
OPEN COLUMN
This could be the year
MU wins in Nebraska
Editor, the Tribune: This could be the year explosive Missouri defeats the Nebraska Cornhuskers in Lincoln, Neb. The last time this happened was 30 years ago in 1978. This was the first season for Coach Warren Powers, who replaced Al Onofrio.
Supreme Court needs a rescue plan, too
By ELLEN GOODMAN
I really hate to bring it up. We already have two branches of our national government in full-scale meltdown. The president looks like a guy pleading before the parole board for early release. The Congress makes "dysfunctional" sound like a compliment.
Culture war hits theaters
By BILL O’REILLY
This week marks the opening of two highly charged movie comedies. The first, "Religulous," is a Borat-style journey starring Bill Maher that is designed to demonstrate that anyone who believes in God is a total moron.
