Published Sunday, October 5, 2008
THE TRIBUNE'S VIEW
Ethanol and abortion
By HENRY J. WATERS III, Publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune
Maybe you think I’ve lost my mind, linking ethanol and abortion, but I do have a point, to wit: Sometimes we oversimplify our contentions about controversial subjects. Sometimes in the heat of battle we fail to recognize nuances that can make all the difference.
JOHN DARKOW CARTOON
Rioters squelch speech in Cologne
By DIANA WEST
Readers of my blog know that in recent days, as a maelstrom of buffeting economic crises has sucked the air out of the news atmosphere, I have been all-but-transfixed by events unfolding in the German city of Cologne.
OPEN COLUMN
Democrats are destroying the American way of life
Editor, the Tribune: "We will probably all have to rethink the American way of living and consume less of everything." That was the key sentence in Martin Wills’ Aug. 10 letter that badmouthed oil companies and
Republicans.
OPEN COLUMN
Midkiff always acts like he alone is right
Editor, the Tribune: Since Ken Midkiff is convinced Columbia’s water is contaminated, dare we hope that he moves to safer quarters? Or at least to a location where someone other than he himself is occasionally right?
OPEN COLUMN
We must reject the hatred
toward GLBT community
Editor, the Tribune: Oct. 12 will mark 10 years since the murder of Matthew Shepard in an anti-gay hate crime in Laramie, Wyo. Consequently, your story about Hickman High School students Shea Spence and Liz Brooks seems rather poignant.
OPEN COLUMN
Candidates’ tenor speaks volumes about capability
Editor, the Tribune: In 1960, John F. Kennedy promulgated, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
OPEN COLUMN
Columbia should be proud
of Spence and Gadbois
Editor, the Tribune: Thank you very much for printing the heartwarming story about the Hickman High School homecoming queen, Shea Spence, and her lesbian partner walking together for homecoming tradition.
OPEN COLUMN
Hickman homecoming
brings some tears of joy
Editor, the Tribune: I was moved to tears by tonight’s story of the Hickman homecoming. Won’t it be a wonderful day when we can be just who we were born to be without it being newsworthy?
OPEN COLUMN
VA hospital is imprisoning
veterans against their will
Editor, the Tribune: The director of the Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital has decided, as of Oct. 1, to imprison all veterans in the hospital from 9:30 p.m. to 6 a.m. every day - which will prevent them from smoking at night.
Government is at fault in crisis of U.S. markets
By TOM PURCELL
Of all the annoyances to come out of the financial crisis, this one takes the cake: French intellectuals are mocking us.
HOT FLASHES
Dogs not ailing, just uninspired
By SHARON HARL
Lately I’ve been worried about our two dogs, Chubby and Milly. They are brother and sister (littermates sounds too clinical) Shih Tzus. I chose their names because the male was a fat puppy and Milly rhymed with Tilly - the dog I had just lost.
Isolation won’t ease tension with Russia
By ANDREW KUCHINS
The August war in Georgia destroyed any illusions that, nearly 20 years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, we had restructured the European security system to make the continent whole, free and secure.
