By JASON STRICKLAND (digitalBURG) – At about 3:15 p.m. on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, I began the 120-mile journey back to UCM from Fulton, Mo., after fall break. There are… Read more »
Category: Opinion

Lake Superior drive, why limit happy to an hour?
By SANDY IRLE (digitalBURG) – This past summer, Mark and I started a Lake Superior trip by driving to Minnesota to visit a friend I met during a family vacation…. Read more »
Tax incentive reform
Dear Editor, Missouri’s economy is suffering, and at least part of the blame can be laid at the feet of a state development culture intent on picking winners and losers… Read more »

Rome in winter
By SANDY IRLE (digitalBURG) – Not being a fan of big cities, I have to say that Rome is amazing. I could happily live in Rome. We arrived at the… Read more »

A great time to visit the river
By SANDY IRLE – It’s always a great time to visit the river. For our anniversary, my husband Mark and I have often travel a short section of the Great… Read more »

Governments must draw a clear line between protected speech and its abuses
By KAMEL GHOZZI (digitalBURG) – As an Arab American sociologist born and raised in the country of Tunisia, every time my American friends ask for my opinion on the high… Read more »
Waterfall chasing in Washington
By SANDY IRLE (digitalBURG) — We love waterfalls, and that brought us to Washington. Arriving on a late flight to Seattle (which yielded a serendipitous surprise later in the trip),… Read more »
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Visiting a different Montserrat
Story by SANDY IRLE (WARRENSBURG, Mo.) – Travel, to me, is a balm. It heals the stresses and obligations of day-to-day life. I enjoy getting lost. I thrill at meeting… Read more »
Foley, UM Press series editors resign
By JANESE SILVEY Columbia Daily Tribune The general editor of the Missouri Biography Series—a collection of 30-some biographies of notable Missourians—is calling it quits. Bill Foley, a professor emeritus of… Read more »