THE TRIBUNE'S VIEW
The meaning of Enron
By HENRY J. WATERS III, Publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune
Everyone claims to know the meaning of the stunning conviction of Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, the two men at the top of the food chain at Enron. Nobody doubts the company mishandled its affairs, ruining the portfolios of thousands of investors and throwing other thousands of employees out of work without retirement benefits. The question at trial was: Who knew what and when, and who might have criminally jiggered the books?

Removing lift bridge will sink Katy Trail
By KEN MIDKIFF
The Katy Trail is in trouble. If the Boonville lift bridge is removed, the rail corridor no longer exists and the Katy Trail reverts to various entities: farm owners, municipalities and even the state of Missouri.

OPEN COLUMN
Anti-war protesters don’t deserve coverage they get
Editor, the Tribune: The anti-war protesters at the air show were virtually invisible and mostly irrelevant to what was going on inside the gate. Why, then, do we spend so much time on their coverage?

OPEN COLUMN
Cane thief needs to let conscience be the guide
Editor, the Tribune: On Sunday, May 21, about noon, someone took my cane from my cart in front of my black El Camino at the Stadium Wal-Mart store.

OPEN COLUMN
Aquinas wouldn’t support embryonic cell research
Editor, the Tribune: In his Op-Ed, "Right-to-lifers should support stem cell work" of May 21, Thomas F. Eagleton urged support for the current initiative to make embryonic stem cell research and therapeutic cloning a constitutional right in Missouri.

OPEN COLUMN
Dismissal of mall riot case no reflection on police
Editor, the Tribune: I feel the story about my dismissing the Alva Scott case implied incorrectly that I believed her over police. 

GOP or Democrat, we all vote values
By GEORGE F. WILL
An aggressively annoying new phrase in America’s political lexicon is "values voters." It is used proudly by social conservatives and carelessly by the media to denote such conservatives.

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