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Your Opinion: We can still celebrate Easter Dear Editor: It is sad to know that people will not be able to gather in person to celebrate Holy Week and Easter. Published Apr. 6 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Accountability needed for bailout Dear Editor: Hey, I'm sorry for writing so many letters. Some people think I do anyway. Published Apr. 6 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Helping each other Dear Editor: Neila Wiles Pippins letter which appeared in the April 1 edition was no April Fool. Published Apr. 6 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: A strength in time of trouble Dear Editor: Hooray, News Tribune! I am referring to your headline and story of March 30 which reminded us that you were still open for business (if not for a lot of visitors). Published Apr. 5 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Are critics really concerned with balancing budget? Dear Editor: More than a few stories have been told of the wasteful spending programs by our federal government. Published Apr. 5 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Response to Barnhill Dear Editor: Did you listen to Hannity to hear what he said, or did you take as "gospel" what a NY Times editor told Michael Isokoff on Skullduggery? The NY Times is possibly the least credible newspaper in America and Isokoff leaked the anonymously sourced "salacious dossier" that said Trump was in a Russian hotel with prostitutes and peeing on beds. Published Apr. 5 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: We have an American virus Dear Editor: We have an American virus. A virus I believe originated here in the states. Published Apr. 5 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: The good and the bad in plastics Dear Editor: I enjoyed a recent letter, published in these pages, concerning plastic prohibition. Published Apr. 5 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Response to Smith Dear Editor: In response to J. Richard Smith's "Will 'socialism' bashers cash the check?" opinion article. Published Apr. 5 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: We've weathered similar, without disruption and massive spending Dear Editor: The 1956-57 Asian flu epidemic killed today's equivalent of 210,000 people in the U.S. Published Apr. 4 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: No gas tax hike until price gouging is fixed Dear Editor: If our Missouri Attorney General is interested in investigating price gouging during the COVID-19 crisis, he need look no further than the counties in Central Missouri. Published Apr. 4 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: God bless Cuba Dear Editor: Sweet Cuba. Cuba has sent 50 doctors to Italy to help there as well as five or six other countries. Published Apr. 4 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Response to Reichel Dear Editor: On March 29 Mr. Reichel referenced my LTE of March 14 that the Democrat Party "was horrible years ago. Published Apr. 3 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Volunteers deserve our gratitude Dear Editor: April 19 through 25, 2020, is National Volunteer Appreciation Week. Published Apr. 3 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Taxpayers should ask why? Dear Editor:If you had money to invest, would you buy old dilapidated houses and sell them for less than you paid. Published Apr. 3 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Response to Reichel Dear Editor: The undercover FBI agent and officer were looking for a fugitive and spotted James King walking. Published Apr. 3 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Which news outlets are fake news? Dear Editor: Considering the busy schedules of parents working full time plus the responsibilities of raising a family, small wonder that a recent poll found 47 percent of people prefer to watch the news rather than read about it. Published Apr. 2 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: We're better than this Dear Editor: Like many of us, I grow weary of the current obsession with COVID-19 and hope it passes soon. Published Apr. 2 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: State needs us to help finance services Dear Editor: I am writing to my fellow citizens of Jefferson City and Cole County who are as fortunate as I am to join me in paying our first- and second-quarter estimated taxes now. Published Apr. 2 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: The Big Lie Dear Editor: Most of us have never seen anything quite like what we face today, but similar situations have happened before; for example, the Spanish Flu in 1918, and "The Big Lie" to cover it up. Published Apr. 1 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Stay-at-home order must be enforced Dear Editor: This situation, the COVID-19 situation, is an atrocity. Current predictions are indicating that, if nothing is done, we could lose up to 122,000 Missourians, with a 70 percent infection rate. Published Apr. 1 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Will "socialism" bashers cash the check? Dear Editor: The House, Senate and Mr. Trump have passed a $2.4 trillion much needed bailout for our economy. Published Apr. 1 2020 @ 12:05am

Your Opinion: Trump's tariffs cost us $16B in subsidies Dear Editor: The Nation is the oldest continuously weekly magazine in the United States. Published Apr. 1 2020 @ 12:05am