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When Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives Steven Tilley made his choice of Rush Limbaugh for the Hall of Famous Missourians, he did it in secrecy, under cover of darkness – the kind of action a person takes when he is ashamed of what he is doing.
I grow herbs. Not as a business, but because I like the flavor fresh herbs impart to the food.
Ah, the tired old “Rush Limbaugh is Hitler” theory has reared its ugly head again, this time from JanMarie Sajna.
To the editor:
I’ve been signing a lot of petitions lately, forwarding them as well as, posting them on Facebook concerning Rush Limbaugh. I find it interesting that my Republican friends often respond with something about it not being fair to go after Rush Limbaugh when Bill Maher got away with attacking Sarah Palin.
To the editor:
In his May 9 guest column, “An interstate we need and one we don’t,” blasting the Missouri Department of Transportation for waste and accusing it of playing a “shell game” in western Missouri, Fred Reiss makes a number of false and misleading claims about Interstate 49.
To the editor:
A wonderfully positive thing happened in Independence April 3. An unprecedented 72.2 percent of the voters united to reject another tax increase. This degree of unity, though previously rare, sends a clear message.
On behalf of Centerpoint Medical Center, I would like to thank the mayor, city leadership, and the community for your support
In the article, James Everett: “Inequality can catch up with us,” published May 11, 2012, the last sentence offers that the Civil War was not so much about slavery, but economic issues. I guess that he rewrote history to support his claim that the imbalance of the distribution of wealth went against the Declaration of Independence, which says that “all men are created equal,” and that is the cause of the Civil War, which is why there is so much unrest today.
Three Mile Island and Chernobyl catastrophes put a cloud over all nuclear energy development. But there is a better way in providing all our energy needs, and it lies in nuclear power plants, but not at all the way you think.
