Opinion

Federal, state leaders salute Joplin’s recovery

A deadly May twister may have punched a hole in Joplin and Duquesne two years ago, but the resolve to repair it will help other communities stand strong when they face similar disasters. That was the message of state and national diginitaries to a crowd of about 2,500 who observed the second anniversary of Joplin’s devastating May 22, 2011, storm during a ceremony Wednesday in Cunningham Park.

Opinion

Our View: Eyes wide open
No community should have to suffer the onslaught of nature the way that Franklin, Kan., Carl Junction, Pierce City and Stockton did 10 years ago.

May 9, 2013 1 Photo
Your View: Remarkable achievement
Kudos to the Jasper R-5 School District girls and boys track teams.

May 8, 2013
Your View: Make it a habit
The Globe is right (Our View, Globe, May 5) that recycling is important enough to simply launch a trial run rather than spend money on a ballot issue, but if we’re going to do it, let’s do it right.

May 8, 2013
Your View: Help Americans
Sixty-three percent of Hispanics polled say they want Hillary Clinton to be the next president; only 23 percent said they would consider Marco Rubio.

May 8, 2013
Your View: Conundrum
Oh, what a tangled web we weave — if it wasn’t so tragic, we might laugh at it as a soap opera. Guns, laws, mental illness. What to do?

May 8, 2013
Our View: Creating a fairer market
When you buy flowers this week for your mother through your local florist, you will be charged sales tax, which in turn is dispersed into city, county and state coffers.

May 8, 2013 1 Photo
Phill Brooks, columnist: Egg bill an example of legislative tactics
It started as a simple, seemingly humorous bill in the Senate to expand the legal definition of an egg.

May 7, 2013
Our View: Looking outside himself
Before he died, Cooper Vocelka was studying the philosophy of Dr. Seuss and told his father, Ron, about the Sneetches — the star-bellied and plain-bellied creatures who pay all their money to look like the other.

May 7, 2013 1 Photo
Other Views: Escaping the job slump
For the past four years, the job market has suffered a spring slowdown. But maybe that cycle ended this April with a really solid government report on employment.

May 6, 2013 1 Photo
John Sullivan, guest columnist: Fancy building can’t hide Bush blunder
They say that hindsight is 20/20. If that’s the case, since history involves hindsight — or at least post-transactional analysis of what worked and what did not — then history should be the judge of a presidential term of office.

May 6, 2013
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