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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

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

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

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

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

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

MDNR ombudsmen can't have rapport with us >> Editorial mariwinn
Are there any concentrated animal feeding operations in Greene County? Not one. How many CAFOs are there in Webster County? One. Is there a town in Greene or Webster counties that has odor problems ...more

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

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

Bringing business to Missouri--at whose cost? >> Editorial mariwinn
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

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

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

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

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

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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