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Our View: Happy endings
We’ve all heard the expression “the world’s going to the dogs.” Maybe, on further reflection, that’s for the best.

January 8, 2013 1 Photo
Your View: Rehab for Congress
Straight-faced George Gobel used to say, “When I was a boy, my dad was the town drunk” — dramatic pause — “and we lived in Chicago.” Hardly a word of truth, we reckon.

January 8, 2013
Your View: Poor, poor rich
The huge cities of the North are where the Democrats live.

January 8, 2013
Your View: Times have changed
My, the changes. My granddad told me that in the early 1900s he carried a loaded rifle to school to hunt rabbits on the way home for food.

January 8, 2013
Your View: Don’t waste time
If you’ve have been keeping up with the Globe, you know that the Globe’s editorial board, Joplin school superintendent C.J. Huff and Gov. Jay Nixon all oppose “conceal-carry” in our schools.

January 8, 2013
John Sullivan, guest columnist: Legal leverage over funding process
The orgy of spending on the national level that resulted from the Citizens United case and its progeny has to be stopped if we are to maintain any semblance of our democracy. How to go about reversing this situation is the topic of a recent Politico op-ed piece by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

January 9, 2013
Our View: Wrong center of debate
Now that the “fiscal cliff” is behind us, the next round of debate will be over the debt ceiling. But, in our view, that’s the wrong place to center the argument.
Of course we must pay old bills. Even members of the tea party agree with the fiscal responsibility of paying old bills. If we must borrow money to do that, then so be it, borrow the money.

January 9, 2013
Kevin Wilson, guest columnist: Fiscal disaster like scene from Camp Swampy
So our leaders in Washington kept us from falling off the fiscal cliff by raising taxes and then punting on the tough decisions regarding spending cuts.

January 7, 2013
Other Views: Anybody out there?
Sorry, you can’t yet go to that place in a galaxy far, far away. You still have to pay your taxes, take out the garbage and fret about how your favorite professional sports franchise will underperform.

January 7, 2013 1 Photo
Marta Mossburg, columnist: Small businesses victims of crony capitalism
When a microfinance organization started in Bangladesh is the only way some American entrepreneurs can get loans, what does it say about the state of banking in the United States?

January 7, 2013 1 Photo
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