Up until now, Joplin has focused most of its efforts on recovery from the May 22, 2011, tornado.
Mountains of debris — ruined homes, vehicles, businesses — have been hauled away. Lots have been scraped clean. Rebuilding is well under way. As a city, Joplin can be nothing but proud of the way it has responded and grateful to those who have reached out their hands our way.
Now, Joplin is about to take on a new challenge — one that could be the most difficult step yet toward trying to right the horrible damage caused by the EF-5 tornado.
Residents will be asked to look at Joplin in a new light.
At 5:45 p.m. Monday, proposals for $800 million in projects ranging from housing construction to a performing arts complex will be outlined by the Joplin City Council in a session at City Hall.
The plans will be presented by David Wallace of Wallace Bajjali Development Partners, of Sugar Land, Texas, a firm that has been hired by the city to serve as the master developer.
The firm’s vision began with ideas that came from Joplin residents. From parks to trails, neighborhood retail centers to mixed-use developments, the initial ideas of a future Joplin were generated from suggestions made by those who live here.
We view this as one of the most important meetings in Joplin’s history because it will have a profound effect on the future.
Now is not the time to take a backseat.
There are two ways you can participate on Monday. You can attend in person, or you may choose to watch it from your living room. Missouri Southern State University’s station KGCS-TV will broadcast the meeting live and will offer a rebroadcast at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. That’s digital channel 22. If you’re a cable or dish subscriber, you may want to check in advance to make sure you can find it.
It’s an exciting time to live in Joplin.
Let’s make sure it’s an exciting place to live 50 years from now.
Opinion
Our View: Setting a new course
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Our View: Spying on us
Distrust of government secrecy has been elevated to an exceptional level with the disclosure the Justice Department covertly examined two months of Associated Press phone records to determine who leaked details to the AP about a foiled terrorist plot.
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Our View: Pass on the legacy
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Our View: Big Brother looms large
The federal government, working under the cloak of secrecy, has been having a heyday at the expense of all Americans.
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Our View: Disgraceful military assault
We want to make one thing clear: A sexual assault is not a sex scandal. Nor can the rise in sexual assaults in the military be justified in any way.
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Elliott Denniston, guest columnist: Right-to-work laws only hurt workers
Middle-class workers have been fighting an uphill battle for the past 30 years.
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Your View: Food drive efforts
Branch No. 366 of the National Association of Letter Carriers along with the National Rural Letter Carriers Association, the American Postal Workers Union and the U.S. Postal Service would like to thank all the area communities that participated in the 2013 Stamp Out Hunger food drive.
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Your View: More about tax credit
The Globe’s editorial in “Our View” (May 10) may have left readers with a few inaccurate impressions.
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Other Views: Sickening disparity
Don’t feel bad if you don’t understand the wide, sometimes huge, discrepancies in fees hospitals charge for the same procedure. Or if you don’t understand the arithmetical magic the hospitals use to arrive at those fees.
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Carol Stark: America in need of more 'momisms'
Several years ago, I attended a writing workshop where one of the sessions was called “Tell it to Mom.”
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Our View: Keep learning
Donna Maus, a biology teacher from St. Mary’s Colgan High School in Pittsburg, Kan., told a group of top students, their parents and their teachers something we think everyone needs to hear.
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