THE TRIBUNE'S VIEW
FOIA
By HENRY J. WATERS III, Publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune
Even though the effort is mainly promoted by Democrats and opposed by the Bush White House, I hope our congressman, Republican Kenny Hulshof, supports moves to ensure a more open government.

JOHN DARKOW CARTOON

HOMEBOY
Brackets keep lazy guys busy
By DOUG PUGH
I didn’t get much accomplished this past week. 

‘Diversity’ bill would appeal to neo-Nazis
By WAYNE BREKHUS
On March 10 neo-Nazis marched through downtown Columbia near the University of Missouri. Among their grievances was that the MU School of Journalism is "Marxist" and hasn’t produced one "nationalist" reporter, meaning a white nationalist who agrees with neo-Nazi ideology. 

OPEN COLUMN
Renewable energy sources can meet Columbia’s needs
Editor, the Tribune: By 2020, the electrical generating capacity requirement for Columbia is projected to be a third higher. We can meet that by building a 110- megawatt coal-fired power plant or by building renewable energy capacity. These two options have about the same cost, with renewables probably being cheaper.

OPEN COLUMN
State primary seat belt law would save lives, money
Editor, the Tribune: As a pediatrician and teacher of pediatrics, I want to address an important piece of legislation that is currently before our General Assembly, the "Primary Safety Seat Belt Law."

OPEN COLUMN
Governor, lawmakers value dollars over human lives
Editor, the Tribune: In 2005, penny-pinching Missouri lawmakers eliminated Medicaid funding for such items as feeding tubes, crutches and hospital beds for disabled Missourians.

OPEN COLUMN
Gov. Blunt takes credit for even the weather
Editor, the Tribune: An article in the March 8 Tribune explained that the Army Corps of Engineers would forgo a spring rise on the Missouri River because of a lack of reservoir storage in the upper basin. The same thing happened last year; the upper basin is in the seventh year of an extended drought.

Sudoku’s good for the brain
By BEN OGAWA
Have you ever played the Japanese number game sudoku? The creator of the electronic game Brain Age, which tests one’s ability at completing logic problems and then computes the player’s brain’s age, says the regular practice of such games will help prevent Alzheimer’s disease.

There’s a person inside the punchline
By LEONARD PITTS JR.
For some reason, that picture sticks in my head. The one of Britney Spears attacking a car with an umbrella.

Sudan still getting away with genocide
By NAT HENTOFF
On Feb. 17, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno Ocampo, accused a leading member of the Sudanese government - Ahmed Haroun, deputy minister of what Sudan calls humanitarian affairs - of "criminal responsibility" for mass murders, mass rapes and other "inhuman acts" against black Muslims in Darfur. President George W. Bush accurately calls these horrors acts of genocide.

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