http://www.joplinglobe.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:13:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020160124.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020160124.html Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:57:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020165819.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020165819.html Paxton Williams awoke early Tuesday and hiked 20 blocks to stand in line.Tessa Foti rose at 4:45 a.m. to board a bus that would take her and other classmates through the Capitol’s frigid temperatures and to a glimpse of history. Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:58:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020151616.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020151616.html "My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors." Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:41:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020154410.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020154410.html Barack Obama leads off an inaugural parade down America’s main street that pays homage to pioneers who paved the way for the nation’s first black president. Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:00:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020144035.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020144035.html Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:49:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020144957.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020144957.html Missourians are marking the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama with gatherings at bars, movie theaters and concert halls. Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:46:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020134943.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020134943.html Henry “Bud” Morgan downplays what he did in the early 1960s. As a graduate student at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, he verified the identities of three African-Americans who sought voter registrations. Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:01:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020130226.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020130226.html Former President George W. Bush and his wife have left Washington for their Texas home, after eight years in the White House. Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:58:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020125846.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020125846.html At precisely 12:01 p.m. EST, the White House Web site, the online bastion of the Bush administration for the past eight years, was updated to reflect President Barack Obama’s assumption of office. Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:37:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020123828.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020123828.html Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:32:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020123410.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020123410.html Chief Justice John Roberts swore in President-elect Barack Obama as president of the United States on Tuesday, helping him through a slight stumble in the first of what could be many important interactions between two men who rose to their positions of power quickly and who have some background similaritities, but whose politics differ. Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:28:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020123050.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020123050.html President Barack Obama is telling the world’s Muslims that his administration will be looking for a “new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect.” Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:23:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020122356.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020122356.html I knew when I heard the drums in the middle of the night that Barack Obama would be the next president of the United States. Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:20:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020115629.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020115629.html Stepping into history as America’s first black president, Barack Hussein Obama said in his inaugural address Tuesday that the nation must choose “hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord” to overcome the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:08:00 +0000 http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020115800.html http://www.joplinglobe.com/presidential_transition/local_story_020115800.html Barack Obama is vowing to “responsibly leave Iraq to its people” and also to build what he calls a “hard-earned peace in Afghanistan.”