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Your Opinion: Time to heal Dear Editor :It never dawned on me how ill-informed most of us were in our childhood years. Published Jun. 6 2021 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Luetkemeyer's legislation isn't helping district Dear Editor: On May 22, U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer might as well have declared the world was flat. Published Jun. 6 2021 @ 12:05am

CARTOON GALLERY 06-06-21 A sampling of today's editorial cartoons on local and national issues. Published Jun. 5 2021 @ 1:05pm

Our Opinion: Take steps to prevent pedestrian deaths In Missouri, 128 pedestrians were killed and 316 were injured in 2020. These are deaths and injuries that didn't need to occur and shouldn't have. by News Tribune Published Jun. 5 2021 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Misunderstanding about critical race theory Dear Editor: Recently, critical race theory has come under fire as some sort of nefarious means to subvert the status quo. Published Jun. 5 2021 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: What's happened to our country? Dear Editor: What has happened to the country we once knew? One Nation Under God — Love Thy Neighbor as Thy Self — United We Stand. Published Jun. 5 2021 @ 12:05am

CARTOON GALLERY 06-05-21 A sampling of today's editorial cartoons on local and national issues. Published Jun. 4 2021 @ 7:05pm

Your Opinion: Promise made, promise not kept Dear Editor: At our last Eastside Business Association meeting, it was stated that upgrades to Moreau Heights and Thorpe Gordon would be delayed another year as the School Board voted to spend $16 million to make our other schools energy efficient by things like LED lighting, and measuring and monitoring how much water gets used to flush toilets and wash hands. Published Jun. 4 2021 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Without Social Security, many would suffer Dear Editor: Let's not forget the Tulsa massacre in 1921, it is the 100-year anniversary. Published Jun. 4 2021 @ 12:05am

Our Opinion: Unified effort against hunger Who says there's no such thing as a free lunch? The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has an online map of Missouri showing where you can get just that. by News Tribune Published Jun. 4 2021 @ 12:05am

CARTOON GALLERY 06-04-21 A sampling of today's editorial cartoons on local and national issues. Published Jun. 3 2021 @ 2:31pm

Your Opinion: American socialism Dear Editor: Many of the conservative LTE writers constantly knock socialism and how it's bad. Published Jun. 3 2021 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Responsibility needed for what we desire as a nation Dear Editor: I just finished watching "Judgment at Nuremberg." Published Jun. 3 2021 @ 12:05am

CARTOON GALLERY 06-03-21 A sampling of today's editorial cartoons on local and national issues. Published Jun. 2 2021 @ 1:52pm

Your Opinion: Living in an echo chamber Dear Editor: I constantly find it ironic how people will write letters to the editor about how other people are living in an echo chamber while they are promoting a book or media publication that supports their own echo chamber. Published Jun. 2 2021 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Biden sane and well-mannered Dear Editor: I like Joe Biden. I like him because he seems sane and well-mannered. Published Jun. 2 2021 @ 12:05am

Our Opinion: Bears a curiosity, but be careful Facebook is abuzz with bears.After previous sightings at Lake of the Ozarks, around St. Louis and other places in Missouri, they're finally making their way to the Capital City. by News Tribune Published Jun. 2 2021 @ 12:05am

CARTOON GALLERY 06-02-21 A sampling of today's editorial cartoons on local and national issues. Published Jun. 1 2021 @ 12:38pm

Commentary: Equity is Marxism Much of world history over the past couple centuries or so involved a struggle between two belief systems — Marxism and capitalist democracy — which was essentially a struggle for primacy between the state (Marxism) and the individual (capitalist democracy). by Bradley R. Gitz Published Jun. 1 2021 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: The COVID cover-up Dear Editor: When flu season hits we hear: As soon as you feel sick, go to the doctor and get started on Tamiflu to shorten the length and severity of the virus. Published Jun. 1 2021 @ 12:05am

Perspective: Another unpredictable session I’ve heard it said that after every legislative session, the folks in the Capitol building tend to think the current session has been the most tumultuous or strange year on record. Published May. 30 2021 @ 12:05am

Commentary: Universal service could broaden horizons Military service in defense of our country has been on a voluntary basis for nearly half a century. And while the commemorative spirit and sentiment of Monday’s holiday for all who gave their lives to preserve our liberty may be universal, the sacrifice suffered isn’t. Published May. 30 2021 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Memorial Day is not for barbecue Dear Editor: Decoration Day (as my parents sometimes called it) is the last Monday in May. Published May. 30 2021 @ 12:05am