OpinionAugust 2, 2013
Speak Out 8/2/13
We're so pleased to read that the Board of Regents at SEMO has approved the contracts for the River Campus expansion projects. This is a wonderful thing, and it will help this wonderful arts community continue to grow. My friends and family were recently talking about how great it is that Cape Girardeau is becoming known for its arts. And we all agree with the recent posts regarding the creation of a summer theater. We are so proud to live here...
Arts town
We're so pleased to read that the Board of Regents at SEMO has approved the contracts for the River Campus expansion projects. This is a wonderful thing, and it will help this wonderful arts community continue to grow. My friends and family were recently talking about how great it is that Cape Girardeau is becoming known for its arts. And we all agree with the recent posts regarding the creation of a summer theater. We are so proud to live here.
Unfinished work
Later this week, members of Congress will leave Washington and begin their summer break. It's a long one -- five whole weeks. There's a reason many of the bills have catchy names [at least, catchy by Washington standards]: They're less about passing legislation that the Democrat-led Senate will consider and more about signaling a message to the voters they'll soon be facing back home. The Senate isn't likely to take up any of these bills, but House members will be able to tout how busy they've been cracking down on the IRS, working to shrink the size of government, and fighting [and fighting and fighting] Obamacare. Meanwhile, immigration reform, a fix for the farm bill and the 2014 budget all remain untouched. Once again, Congress is packing it in having left all the big work undone. Do you think they will thank the taxpayers?
Ozone story
Your lead article about ozone is close to the mark, but just a little off. There is less ozone in Perry County because of a cool summer, but the cause of ozone in this rural county is natural. Nitrous oxides are in the air. Air is mostly nitrogen. Organic compounds can come from burning hydrocarbons, but they are more likely to come from the abundance of plants in Perry County. This ozone is naturally occurring and is not man-made pollution.
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'Concrete abuse'
You learn something every day by reading Speak Out. I don't know what kind of criminal penalties it carries if convicted of it, but I would like to find out the range of punishment for what a caller deemed "concrete abuse."
Civil unrest
Mr. President: Keep on stirring the pot as civil unrest seems to be increasing under your lack of leadership. I just saw where Obama promises to protect minority voting rights at a meeting with civil rights leaders. Please tell me how anyone is being discriminated against other than the normal voter who goes to the poll and votes only to find out that hundreds of "dead" people's votes are being counted, many for him in the last election. I think that Mr. President needs to clean his own house up before he goes out trying to stir up things with the so-called "civil rights" leaders.
Limbaugh column
That, my Speak Out friends, is the sine qua non of what is called a stretch. President Obama, a man of impeccable character, was deemed by David Limbaugh to be a man of dubious or outright bad character if for no other reason than he disagrees with the political views of, well, David Limbaugh.
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