Published Sunday, February 1, 2009
THE TRIBUNE'S VIEW
Nixon’s budget
By HENRY J. WATERS III, Publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune
I supported Jay Nixon for governor largely because I think he will be a tough, effective manager of the government.
Now, as he makes his first budget, he intends to bridge the state’s revenue shortfall by cutting more than 1,300 state jobs, saving some $200 million in ongoing expenses.
JOHN DARKOW CARTOON
TRIBUNE COLUMN
College funding solution ever more elusive
By BOB ROPER
Governance and funding are issues of importance to the University of Missouri. Thus, it is a matter of great import when two powerful state senators discuss these topics.
Obama stuck playing abortion-debate game
By ELLEN GOODMAN
It must be the world’s longest-running game of ideological pingpong. In 1984, Ronald Reagan aimed an overhand smash at international organizations, pledging that America would no longer give family planning money to any group that even counseled or referred women for abortions. Ping.
OPEN COLUMN
Segert shows courage by moving to private school
Editor, the Tribune: In taking one of her children out of public school and enrolling him in private school, Ines Segert shows she is the kind of courageous, thinking person we need on the Columbia Board of Education.
OPEN COLUMN
Fighting in Afghanistan is
a waste, could ruin Obama
Editor, the Tribune: It now appears that President Barack Obama is going to send another 20,000 to 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. Virtually no one in the United States is challenging the wisdom of such increases or the notion that somehow the United States can militarily "win" a "global war on terror."
HOMEBOY
Super Bowl party starts, ends early
By DOUG PUGH
Americans will come up with almost any excuse to stand around in circles, eat from paper plates and drink booze all afternoon. The neighbors’ kids just got baptized? Fire up the grill and tap the pony keg!
Obama on right path in Mideast
By GHASSAN MICHEL RUBEIZ
President Barack Obama has sent two positive messages to the Arab world in one week, and for that we should be glad.
One is his interview with al-Arabiya TV network. This is the first interview he has granted since becoming president - a fact that hasn’t been lost on Arabs and Muslims.
Reverse bank robbery an inside job
By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY
This is a story of the greatest bank robbery in the history of the world, a tale that would have the James gang and John Dillinger and Willie Sutton green with envy.
Black Death story turns heads across pond
Even by the flamboyant headline standards of England’s The Sun newspaper ("Worst mum in the world!"), this one was a real attention-grabber: "Deadliest weapon so far ... the plague."
