The Joplin Globe, Joplin, MO

Voices

Voices
  • Voices: Resolution not easy Regarding the editorial “Phoning in reform” (Globe, Dec. 23), we agree that the legislature should take a good, hard look at intrastate telephone access rates. Resolving the issue, however, is not as easy as the editorial made it appear. The legislature should not rush to judgment.

    January 11, 2010

  • Voices: Title of respect A major issue now emerging in the Senate race in California is the exchange last summer between Sen. Barbara Boxer and Gen. Michael Walsh during hearings that were seen by millions on television.

    January 9, 2010

  • Voices: Something to consider We are still the United States of America, the home of the free and the brave, but barely.

    January 8, 2010

  • Voices: Needs a memory jog In 1951, just after my high school graduation, I went to work as a telephone operator at Southwestern Bell Telephone.

    January 8, 2010

  • Voices: Socialists America was a free and proud country until the turn of the 20th century. Then the progressive movement started, and it has been downhill ever since, with more and more power being seized by the commissars in Washington.

    January 8, 2010

  • Voices: Library concerns The Globe — “Seeking head librarian” — quoted a strikingly large number for usage for our city library. I wonder whether the wonder is not akin to McDonald’s “gazillions sold,” and is for item checkouts, not for patron entrances, during the past fiscal year.

    January 8, 2010

  • Voices: Empty suit I was recently listening to my car radio and picked up a replay of a recent interview that Rush Limbaugh had with Sarah Palin. This replay was presumably being done while Rush was on vacation.

    January 7, 2010

  • Voices: Great job While traveling home from work on Tuesday night, my car got stuck in ice ruts from thawed and refrozen slush. Another car was at the next intersection, having the same problem.

    January 7, 2010

  • Voices: Go Cardinals What a wonderful surprise to see the Webb City High School band in the Rose Bowl parade.

    January 6, 2010

  • Voices: Oh, well Anybody hear about global warming lately?

    January 6, 2010