Recently added articles from Columbia Daily Tribune:
COUNTY COMMISSION AGENDA
Feb 01, 2009 ... The Boone County Commission will be in session at 9:30 a.m.Tuesday in the commission chambers of the Boone County GovernmentCenter at Eighth and Ash streets. PURCHASING A. First reading of a request for vehicle disposal. B. First reading of a request for surplus ...
CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
Feb 01, 2009 ... The Columbia City Council will hold its regular meeting at 7 p.m.tomorrow in the council chambers on the fourth floor of the DanielBoone Building, 701 E. Broadway. The meeting will be open to thepublic. A. Roll call. B. Approval of previous minutes. C. Approval ...
LIVE AND LEARN
Feb 01, 2009 ... Columbia Public Library: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday throughThursday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, 1 to 5p.m. Sunday. 100 W. Broadway. 443-3161 or www.dbrl.org. - Tunes at Two, 2 to 3 p.m. today featuring the Lisa Rose JazzDuo. - AARP Free Tax Aid, 9 a.m ....
SPECIAL EVENTS
Feb 01, 2009 ... "Menopause the Musical Out Loud" will be held at 7:30 p.m. and7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts, 203S. Ninth St. Purchase tickets online at www.motheatre. org or at theMTCA box office. For more information, call 875-0600 or e-mailinfo@mitheatre.org ....
CITY-COUNTY CALENDAR
Feb 01, 2009 ... TOMORROW Closed session of the Boone County Commission, 10 a.m., Room 243,Boone County Government Center, Eighth and Ash streets. County commission work session with Public Works Department, 2:30p.m., Room 243, county government center. Centerstate Transpiration ...
THE TRIBUNE'S VIEW ; Nixon's budget
Feb 01, 2009; ... I supported Jay Nixon for governor largely because I think hewill be a tough, effective manager of the government. Now, as he makes his first budget, he intends to bridge thestate's revenue shortfall by cutting more than 1,300 state jobs,saving some $200 million in ongoing ...
TRIBUNE COLUMN ; College funding solution ever more elusive
Feb 01, 2009; ... University governance and funding Governance and funding are issues of importance to the Universityof Missouri. Thus, it is a matter of great import when two powerfulstate senators discuss these topics. Sen. Gary Nodler, R-Joplin, isthe Appropriations Committee chairman, and Sen ....
Obama stuck playing abortion-debate game
Feb 01, 2009; ... It must be the world's longest-running game of ideologicalpingpong. In 1984, Ronald Reagan aimed an overhand smash atinternational organizations, pledging that America would no longergive family planning money to any group that even counseled orreferred women for abortions ....
OPEN COLUMN ; Segert shows courage by moving to private school
Feb 01, 2009 ... Editor, the Tribune: In taking one of her children out of publicschool and enrolling him in private school, Ines Segert shows she isthe kind of courageous, thinking person we need on the ColumbiaBoard of Education. There is nothing more important than protecting one's child, ...
OPEN COLUMN ; Fighting in Afghanistan is a waste, could ruin Obama
Feb 01, 2009 ... Editor, the Tribune: It now appears that President Barack Obamais going to send another 20,000 to 30,000 troops to Afghanistan.Virtually no one in the United States is challenging the wisdom ofsuch increases or the notion that somehow the United States canmilitarily "win" a "global war ...
HOMEBOY ; Super Bowl party starts, ends early
Feb 01, 2009; ... Americans will come up with almost any excuse to stand around incircles, eat from paper plates and drink booze all afternoon. Theneighbors' kids just got baptized? Fire up the grill and tap thepony keg! Cousin Gertrude finished up her ninth year at the juniorcollege? This calls for ...
Obama on right path in Mideast
Feb 01, 2009; ... President Barack Obama has sent two positive messages to the Arabworld in one week, and for that we should be glad. One is his interview with al-Arabiya TV network. This is thefirst interview he has granted since becoming president - a factthat hasn't been lost on Arabs and ...
Reverse bank robbery an inside job
Feb 01, 2009; ... This is a story of the greatest bank robbery in the history ofthe world, a tale that would have the James gang and John Dillingerand Willie Sutton green with envy. In this story, no mobsters or Robin Hoods burst into a bank, gunsdrawn, shouting, "Hand over the money." Oh no. This ...
Black Death story turns heads across pond
Feb 01, 2009 ... This appeared last week in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Even by the flamboyant headline standards of England's The Sunnewspaper ("Worst mum in the world!"), this one was a real attention-grabber: "Deadliest weapon so far ... the plague." Black Death - the plague - swept through ...
TRIBUNE COLUMN ; Local diners were featured in Showme magazine ads__
Feb 01, 2009; ... A dear friend of mine, Jo Ann Jones, a student at MU in the late1940s, loaned me several issues of the Missouri Showme magazine from1949 and 1950. Students started Showme, a somewhat controversialhumor magazine, after the war and continued publishing off and onuntil 1963. It included ...
HAPPY TAILS TIPS ; Every animal has its own needs, personality
Feb 01, 2009; ... The myriad creatures running through our den would make anyonecontemplate the origin of the species. Two, in particular, arenoticeably opposites on any evolutionary "map." In the lead is a 12-pound, 6-month-old terrier carrying in his compact frame the mind-set of Napoleon. Close behind ...
Ripples from Wall Street ; Benefits are guaranteed, but huge losses put pressure on Missouri's public employee pension systems.
Feb 01, 2009; ... JEFFERSON CITY - The assets of Missouri's biggest public employeepension funds plunged by more than $11 billion in 2008, mostlybecause of the sharp drop in the value of stocks, real estate andother investments. The state's largest pension fund, the Public School ...
Schools' chief picks become public today
Feb 01, 2009 ... The Columbia Board of Education will name two or threesuperintendent finalists today after a closed meeting. The boardconducted interviews last week with the five candidates afterreceiving 17 applications for the position. Former Columbia Deputy Superintendent Jacque Cowherd and ...
Two die after crash in Callaway County
Feb 01, 2009 ... Two Callaway County residents died Friday after a head-oncollision in rural Callaway County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said Shawn Sumner, 17, ofWilliamsburg was eastbound on Route J in a 1992 Honda when thevehicle crossed the center line and struck a westbound 2008 ...
Busy electric workers thankful for hospitality
Feb 01, 2009; ... About two dozen Columbia and Boone County electric workers are insoutheast Missouri trying to restore power to thousands of peoplehit by an ice storm last week. Boone Electric Cooperative sent a four-man construction crew andsix other workers, including tree trimmers, to Hayti as ...