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Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013  Speak Out 10/26/03  Sunday, October
26, 2003  Ban leaf burning  WHEN YOU step outside in Cape
Girardeau, you can tell autumn has arrived. I am not talking
about the cooler weather or the changing of leaves. I am talking
about the odors that fill the air. Your lungs are filled with
the noxious fumes of burning leaves. The city will pick up
leaves that you h rake to the roadside. It is time for Cape to
outlaw the burning of leaves inside the city limits.  Religious
intolerance  YOUR SEPARATION of church and state cartoon could
as easily have borne the opposite caption: "Which Ones Opposes
Separation of Church and State?" The answer is the religious
fanatics in the Middle East who lead religious extremist
governments. When the state becomes the church, religious
intolerance is the outcome.  Online information  I WANT to let
the Jackson School District know that I like the new online
system available to parents. I love being a