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| Saving the American burying beetle >> Editorial | mariwinn |
| A press release has notified THE JOPLIN INDEPENDENT that reintroduction of the federally endangered American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) in Missouri, according to the U.S. Fish and ...more |
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| I am woman, bug off >> Editorial | mariwinn |
| To the editor:
(Oh, oops, I am the editor)
I keep seeing all these messages from Republicans like those of John Brunner, candidate for U.S. Senate vying for the seat held by Claire McCaskill, in ...more |
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| We're concerned about the Keystone XL pipeline >> Editorial | mariwinn |
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Before you Republicans blindly accept the party line that the Keystone XL pipeline must be built for jobs, jobs, jobs or whatever the current party excuse is, consider the words spoken by this ...more |
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| Blunt's press call: Was it a BS and run event? >> Editorial | mariwinn |
| We accepted the opportunity to join other media representatives in a telecommunication call with Sen. Roy Blunt this morning (Jan. 26, 2011) from Washington, D.C. The advance on it was that he was ...more |
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| The Fair Tax, for business as usual? >> Editorial | mariwinn |
| Rep. Ed Emery's report to his constituents dated June 24, 2009, is entitled, "Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness." He introduces it with a quote from Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis' having ...more |
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| Great job, Hacker, and you're better off... >> Editorial | mariwinn |
| How sad that the Joplin Daily.com is no more. If anything, its presence encouraged the Globe to cover more local news. Folks might remember the late 80s, early 90s when Joplin's hometown paper ran AP ...more |
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| State intervention in safety issues >> Editorial | mariwinn |
| Why does it take a catastrophe, like the Anderson group home fire on November 27, 2006 that killed 11 people in southwest Missouri, to review safety issues? Shouldn't that have been some bureaucrat's ...more |
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| Water resource coalition meets again--yawn! >> Editorial | mariwinn |
| We didn't attend the Tri-State Water Resource Coalition meeting September 20, 2006, held at Missouri Southern State University but about 80 people, we were told, did, including John Hacker from the ...more |
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| Blunt's attempt to justify oil exploration in U.S >> Editorial | mariwinn |
| Many residents in the Joplin area may have gotten a pre-recorded phone call from Congressman Roy Blunt fishing for information about whether they would support increased exploration and drilling for ...more |
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| MDNR response to stream team data: same old b.s.? >> Editorial | mariwinn |
| In response to an editorial in the Joplin Globe, "In our view...Kudos to Stream Team," Cindy Davies, director of the Southwest Regional Office of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, as a ...more |
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| Ramblings of a media gnat >> Editorial | mariwinn |
| "Ramblings of a media gnat"...why the title? Obviously the title of "media mogul" is too presumptuous for any Joplin editor. Besides, an editor should be humble. I think that editors like legislators ...more |
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| Will lack of ED drugs cause kinky behavior? >> Editorial | mariwinn |
| Gov. Matt Blunt is patting himself on the back for directing an end to wasteful Medicaid spending. On July 7, 2005, he directed the Division of Medical Services immediately to stop providing erectile ...more |
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| Has Joplin found its voice? >> Editorial | mariwinn |
| Has Joplin found its voice? That would be the best thing that's come out of the controversy surrounding the conduct of the two police officers who acted outside of department regulations.
If the ...more |
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| Bringing business to Missouri--at whose cost? >> Editorial | mariwinn |
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Pictured is Governor Blunt ceremoniously signing the tort reform legislation at Joplin's Freeman Health Center in front of lawmakers and representatives of the medical profession. In back of them ...more |
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| God's word, dress codes & defense of breakfast >> Editorial | mariwinn |
| Believing that religion defies logic, no one can successfully argue for or against anything in religious terms. Any passage one may find in the Bible to justify an argument may easily be countered by ...more |
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| Does everyone want fluoridation? >> Editorial | mariwinn |
| THE ALL MALE JOPLIN CITY COUNCIL
It looks to some like the poor people of Joplin got shafted again when the Joplin City Council last Monday night blew off opposition to Council Bill No. 2004-650, an ...more |
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| Help us cover issues important to the community >> Editorial | mariwinn |
| "American democracy is suffering because its citizens no longer talk about the important issues," said David Burton, civic communication specialist at the University Outreach and Extension News ...more |
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| You can run, but you can't hide >> Editorial | mariwinn |
| Have you, like we, been flabbergasted lately over the kind and amount of information easily available on the internet? What most folks might consider personal information may be a part of the public ...more |
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| Greetings, friends.... >> Editorial | mariwinn |
| Welcome to our work in progress. We hope to become a popular forum for you (wherever you may be) to share with us your comments and ideas, and/or to read what others have to ...more |
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