Guest Opinion | Wednesday, September 26,2007

Missing Lincoln link

The jury’s still out on area church’s claims, professor says

Untitled Document In April 1857, the Logan County Courthouse burned to the ground and court officials temporarily arranged to hold court in nearby Lincoln Christian Church. That

Guest Opinion | Wednesday, September 19,2007

Travel to unravel

Some of my favorite places here, there, and everywhere

By Roland Klose

Untitled Document I’ve had a lot on my mind lately but not a lot of time to sort things out. That’s just the way things are. Compared with many, I don’t have mu

Guest Opinion | Wednesday, August 15,2007

The Dr. Fitzgerald conspiracy

He says that I jump from topic to topic and don’t make sense

By Doug Bybee

Untitled Document One last shot at the Great American Novel, and I need help. I’m taking an online writing course from a university. It’s a simple agenda: Students ar

Guest Opinion | Wednesday, August 1,2007

Cycling Bugs

The Tour de France had nothing on the Tour de Yorkville

By Doug Bybee

Untitled Document It’s Tour de France time, but we’re not interested here, because no Americans are in the hunt — but I’m looking for a new sport to watch

Guest Opinion | Wednesday, August 1,2007

Dead man talking

I have seen the past, and it works

By Roland Klose

Untitled Document As a young reporter, Lincoln Steffens learned that successful police officers had a somewhat ambiguous relationship to the law. Here’s how it worked in so

Guest Opinion | Wednesday, July 25,2007

The handsome man and the good wife

It helps to have someone who shares your delusions

By Doug Bybee

Untitled Document He hadn’t always been handsome — indeed, until the age of 15 he was average-looking — but then Tony “Mole” McMurphy set him straig

Guest Opinion | Wednesday, July 18,2007

The people’s work

How the governor and one of his constituents take care of business

By Doug Bybee

Untitled Document She lived in the four-room house her father built. She had been away from home only once, 37 years ago, one year in college. She came home pregnant. The baby

Guest Opinion | Tuesday, July 3,2007

Resumé padding

Or the man who understood George W. Bush

By Doug Bybee

Untitled Document It’s a beautiful day, normal people are doing normal things, and I’ve just finished a three-hour online debate with five twentysomething college-stu

Guest Opinion | Wednesday, June 13,2007

Getting it right

Why it takes work to keep off the road to hell

By Roland Klose

Untitled Document Long, long ago, I was the host of a public-access cable-television show in St. Louis, a boring gabfest about world affairs. We had a panel of regulars — a

Guest Opinion | Wednesday, June 6,2007

A speech for the ages

Rites of passage — but nobody is listening

By Doug Bybee

Untitled Document He has a commanding presence and deep rich voice. He speaks, and no one listens. The grandparents here have heard it all in another time; they have hear