Published Friday, September 26, 2008
THE TRIBUNE'S VIEW
Bibles in school
By HENRY J. WATERS III, Publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune
For some years the South Iron R-1 School District near St. Louis distributed Bibles to kids in grade school. It’s fine for anyone, including a school administrator, to be an ardent Christian, but to hand out Bibles in public school is an obvious endorsement of a particular religion by a public agency, a clear violation of the U.S. Constitution.
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"Perhaps math coaches protest too much. After all, if we go back to regular or basic math, we may no longer need their services. Then they can go back to the classrooms and work a full day with children like the rest of us do..."
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Nation taken by gang of crooks once again
Editor, the Tribune: The seller’s market that drove home prices up in double digits was never real. The pool of buyers was artificially inflated with pretenders who didn’t belong.
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School bus complainers don’t know all the facts
Editor, the Tribune: I want to speak on behalf of myself and my fellow co-workers about the complaints on bus service. We have nothing to do with the cards you receive in the mail from the First Student office.
Neither candidate looks good as economy fails
By MONA CHAREN
Neither of our would-be leaders covered himself in glory during the past week. A financial crisis (and for once the word "crisis" is apt) has opened beneath our feet, threatening to swallow God only knows how much of our prosperity in its maw, and the two candidates were unable to see beyond their own narrow political interests and unable to resist searching for effigies to burn.
City shouldn’t have dived into Philips Lake
By KEN MIDKIFF
Nyah, nyah, nyah. Told you so, told you so. OK, that’s somewhat childish. But that was my first reaction when I learned that Philips Lake (or Bristol Lake, or whatever it is called these days) was recommended for placement on the state’s "impaired waterbody" - or 303(d) - list.
