Published Sunday, January 18, 2009
THE TRIBUNE'S VIEW
City water
By HENRY J. WATERS III, Publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune
All this talk about contaminants in the city’s water supply prompts memories of days long ago when we had a grand debate about the future and voters decided to build the system we now are analyzing.
JOHN DARKOW CARTOON
TRIBUNE COLUMN
Year ahead looks like a long one
By BOB ROPER
As the unlamented year 2008 recedes down the memory hole, it seems instructive to take a look at what is coming our way in 2009. I do not have access to a crystal ball, of course, but I offer everyone the following observations and predictions based upon a good deal of research.
OPEN COLUMN
Groups deserve thanks
for Giving Tree’s success
Editor, the Tribune: Boone County has more than 200 children in foster homes and more children placed with relatives.
This past holiday season, more than 150 individuals and 17 churches and organizations provided more than 1,000 Christmas gifts and gift cards for Boone County foster children.
HOME BOY
Dad’s new shoes are hard to fill
By DOUG PUGH
My father turned 69 yesterday. In the grand scheme of things, I guess, this is not a tremendously notable birthday, but it does have significance on at least a couple of levels. For one thing, he has to make it only 364 more days until he officially qualifies for the super geriatric discount at Golden Corral.
King took up family
planning
By JOHN F. HIGDON
About 43 years ago, on May 5, 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. was honored with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s "Margaret Sanger Award," named after the courageous woman who, in 1916, opened the first birth control clinic in New York City and founded the Planned Parenthood movement.
Don’t delay television’s switch to digital
This editorial appeared Wednesday in the Chicago Tribune.
Never mind about that $775 billion fiscal stimulus program. More than 7 million American households are in danger of missing an episode of "Dancing With the Stars" unless Congress acts fast to help them.
Being former president probably best
By ANDY ROONEY
There are a lot of things I don’t understand, but nothing is harder to understand than why anyone would want to be president of the United States. Can you imagine wanting - actually wanting - the hardest job in the world? I think anyone who wants to be president ought to be eliminated from consideration on grounds that he (or she) is too dumb for the job.
President-elect learns lesson from previous health-care mistakes
By E.J. DIONNE
When Bill Clinton’s health-care proposal was foundering in the summer of 1994, a group of senators suggested that the administration put off trying to get universal coverage and insist instead on insuring all children. The idea was to make, at least, a down payment on reform.
