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Read on
(02/09/10)
In an age when there are so many demands for our attention, reading sometimes gets a low priority. But visit the Cape Girardeau Public Library and see how many adults and children are checking out books. Reading also is getting a boost this month from two well-organized community events: the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Read-a-Thon that is a part of Black History Month, and the ninth annual United We Read events...
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Speak Out
Speak Out 2/9/10
(02/09/10)LET'S get this straight. The bond issue for schools is a form of a loan. The bond issue is for $40 million. I will gladly vote for this bond issue if the school system shows responsibility like that required of any of us and comes up with a 15 percent down payment. $6 million should be saved before another penny is borrowed. I'm tired of the 100 percent financing... Speak Out
Speak Out 2/8/10
(02/08/10)WHAT a super job the Cape Girardeau Public Works Department has done once again on the snow and ice removal on our streets. They don't toot their horn much, but they constantly do an excellent job. I thought President Bush did a pretty good job after Sept. ... Editorial
High school art
(02/08/10)There are many ways Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus for the visual and performing arts has drawn in the wider community through performances and exhibits. The current high school art exhibition featuring the work of artists from 17 school districts throughout Southeast Missouri is a wonderful example... Speak Out
Speak Out 2/7/10
(02/07/10)I am an avid supporter of athletics and fine arts, but until the Cape Girardeau School District starts seriously investing in our teachers (raises and smaller classrooms for quality learning) I cannot support any bond issue. THE general requirement for a 60-vote supermajority in the U.S. ... Letter to the Editor
Advice for sticky accelerator
(02/07/10)As a former naval aviation safety officer, I noted something in Speak Out worthy of immediate attention. The subject was how to deal with a sticky accelerator situation. The contributor's comments were certainly well-intended and the advice basically sound (shift to neutral and turn off the key), except he or she omitted one very important detail: know your car's ignition configuration to avoid compounding the problem with a stuck accelerator and locked up steering. ... Editorial
Higher ed's future
(02/07/10)No one has a completely reliable crystal ball to see the future of higher education in Missouri, but one person has a vantage point that gives him a better view of things to come than anyone else: Dr. Robert Stein, the state's commissioner of higher education. ... Op/Ed Column
Adherence to Constitution not a sometimes thing
(02/05/10)By Paul J. Passanante On Jan. 14 the Missouri Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Klotz v. St. Anthony's, a case that challenges the constitutionality of the caps that the Missouri General Assemble has imposed on damages in medical negligence cases. ... Speak Out
Speak Out 2/5/10
(02/05/10)PRESIDENT Obama's first year by the numbers: January 2009 there were 13 million unemployed. December 2009 there were 14.7 million unemployed. The unemployment rate in January 2009 was 7.7 percent. The unemployment rate in 2010 was 10.5 percent. Outstanding public debt in January 2009 was $10.6 trillion. Outstanding debt January 2010 was $12.3 trillion... Editorial
Welfare and drugs
(02/05/10)Many taxpaying Missourians will applaud current legislative efforts to restrict or cut off welfare payments to recipients who use illegal drugs. Why, they ask, should taxpayers foot the bill for addictions? The simple answer: They shouldn't. But the issue is more complex than requiring drug tests for the more than 40,000 Missouri families who receive payments from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program... Letter to the Editor
Democrats overplayed their hand
(02/05/10)On Nov. 5, 2008, the day after Barack Obama was elected president, I wrote that it would be a day that would live in infamy. I still believe it could be, but I hope the outcome will be much different than Obama and the Democratic Party had imagined... Speak Out
Speak Out 2/4/10
(02/04/10)I live on David Street in Cape Girardeau. I'd like to report what a wonderful neighbor we have. When it snows, he clears our driveway and makes room at the mailbox for us to get our mail. We have one super hero in our neighborhood. The most wonderful thing about all of this is that he does it all with a smile on his face. Thank you, neighbor. You're a super neighbor to us... Editorial
Cape Air
(02/04/10)Two months after it began flights between Cape Girardeau Regional Airport and Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, Cape Air was officially welcomed as the latest provider of commercial air service under the federal Essential Air Service program that subsidizes flights to smaller markets... Op/Ed Column
Spending czars: Let the spenders figure out how to ... cut spending
(02/03/10)If the new Obama administration federal budget unveiled this week has accomplished anything, it is this: Schoolchildren will soon know how many zeros are in a trillion. Just like your household budget, the federal government each year charts income and expenses. To put it mildly, it ain't pretty this year. And it won't improve to any great extent until at least 2020... Speak Out
Speak Out 2/3/10
(02/03/10)IF President Obama is really serious about wanting Congress to do something about our debt, Congress should pass a bill limiting the number of air miles he can travel. There's no telling how many millions of dollars he's spent in the last year traveling by airplane all over the world... Letter to the Editor
Debt: $45,000 per American
(02/03/10)To our distinguished members of Congress: Please don't continue to tell us how opposed you are to increasing our spiraling public debt. You have just approved legislation to increase the debt ceiling by $1.9 trillion. Las year our debt increased $1.4 trillion. With the increase, we will be at a public debt of $14.3 trillion -- $45,000 for every American... Editorial
School funding
(02/03/10)Weathering the recession has become a major part of managing everything from household budgets to government spending. In Missouri, public schools have received most of the funding anticipated under the state's school-funding formula -- until this year. The prospects for funding in the next school year are cause for worry among administrators and school boards... Op/Ed Column
Time to break the cycle of debt
(02/02/10)Anyone who has opened the paper recently has been confronted by some pretty grizzly numbers about our nation's deficit and debt. Last year, the budget deficit was a record $1.4 trillion. New projections released last week show that this year's deficit will be almost as bad, $1.35 trillion. Missourians are worried about our deficit and debt, and they should be. I am too... Op/Ed Column
Congressional votes
(02/02/10)Here's a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week. WATER DIVERSION IN IDAHO FORESTS: The House approved the Idaho Wilderness Water Facilities Act (H.R. 4474), sponsored by Rep. Walter Minnick, D-Idaho, to authorize the continuance of private water diversions in national forests in Idaho by giving the Agriculture Secretary the authority to issue a special use authorization to owners of water storage, transport, or diversion facilities located on National Forest System lands in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness or the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, for continued operation, maintenance, and reconstruction of applicable facilities. ... Speak Out
Speak Out 2/2/10
(02/02/10)HOW long will President Obama continue to blame George Bush for all the problems that George Bush got us into? STOP making me laugh so hard. My side is hurting. The spin the liberal Democrats are trying to put on their big defeat in Massachusets is hilarious, from saying it's because the Democrats aren't doing enough so they voted for a Republican to shake them up to being glad because now the Republicans can't just say no. Wake up and admit what's really happening to your party... Editorial
Fewer dropouts
(02/02/10)A group of education and community leaders in Cape Girardeau has been meeting for the past year to identify ways to improve Central High School's graduation rate (it was 72.3 percent in 2009). The United Way of Southeast Missouri-sponsored Education Solutions Team is ready to take its findings and its proposals to a wider audience. ... Speak Out
Speak Out 2/1/10
(02/01/10)DO any other taxpayers in Cape Girardeau feel like we've been tricked again? The city is building a lavish water park. Now that it's half-finished, city officials tell us, "Oh, we need a new sanitation plant. Our sewers are going to get stopped up if we don't clean up our sanitation." And we have a federal mandate to do it. ... Editorial
Casino gambling
(02/01/10)When Missouri voters were asked in 2008 to eliminate casino loss limits, remove other gambling restrictions and cap the number of casino licenses, the inducement was a promise of at least $100 million more each year for the state's public schools. Perhaps due to the recession, the 12 operating casinos (one is under construction) took $1.73 billion from gamblers last year, resulting in an addition $22 million for schools... Op/Ed Column
Still no action by Congress on credit default swaps
(01/31/10)By Josh Bill and Dr. Hamner Hill "Every civilization," Swiss historian Jacob Burkhardt once wrote, "carries within itself the seeds of its own destruction." We believe the financial crisis of 2008 exposes a seed that can destroy Western-style free-market capitalism. The name of that seed is the credit default swap, or CDS... Op/Ed Column
End the Federal Reserve
(01/31/10)I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe. -- Abraham Lincoln By Robert Bunn In the United States today, we have, in effect, two governments: the duly constituted government, and the Federal Reserve System, an independent, uncontrolled and uncoordinated government operating the money powers that are reserved to Congress by the Constitution... Speak Out
Speak Out 1/31/10
(01/31/10)IF our politicians were as concerned about the debt as some of them pretend to be, all of them would give all of their political re-election money to the taxpayers to help reduce the debt and help out the people they claim need. Why don't they give their campaign funds to the needy? That would be great, wouldn't it? That would show they really care. It would impress a lot of people... |
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