The Joplin Globe, Joplin, MO

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Opinion
  • Your View: Contradicting ideology

    The Joplin School District prides itself on its integrity and support of creative teachers.

    May 2, 2013

  • Our View.jpg Our View: Go slow with tax credit caps

    Legislators are right to periodically review the more than 60 tax credit programs Missouri offers. Each one should have to justify its existence.

    May 2, 2013 1 Photo

  • Our View.jpg Our view: Wrong way in Kansas

    There’s an old adage: It’s twice as hard to do right as it is to do wrong.

    May 1, 2013 1 Photo

  • Our View.jpg Our View: Cautious approach correct

    Republicans in Washington continue pushing President Obama to take more aggressive action with regard to Syria, where a two-year-old civil war has killed 70,000 people so far.

    April 30, 2013 1 Photo

  • Our View.jpg Our View: 'Rebuilt stronger'

    The 2011 tornado that hit Joplin was so big, so off-the-scale monstrous, that we sometimes forget that before that awful Sunday night, there were other awful Sunday nights.

    April 29, 2013 1 Photo

  • Other Views Other Views: Wining and dining legislators

    Around the Missouri Capitol, you’ll often hear lawmakers deplore the citizen “takers” who ask for state services, like Medicaid.

    April 29, 2013 1 Photo

  • Your View: Boy Scouts should uphold ban on homosexuals

    Why are the homosexuals attacking the Boy Scouts, a private organization for over 100 years with one of the highest organizational moral standards for its over 2.7 million members?

    April 29, 2013

  • Your View: Let the children decide

    Once again the Supreme Court is faced with the decision of abortion and Roe V. Wade.

    April 29, 2013

  • Your View: Support farming amendments

    There were a couple of letters recently in the Globe (April 21) regarding the “freedom to farm” amendments that I feel deserve a response from someone.

    April 29, 2013

  • Your View: No excuse

    Regarding the April 22 Supreme Court editorial, its emphasis is insignificant. “Favorability” is meaningless.

    April 29, 2013

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