YES –
NO –
McCord Bend: Shall the Village of McCord Bend impose a local use tax at the same rate
as the local sales tax?
YES –
NO –
McCord Bend Election Question: Shall the Village of McCord Bend be authorized to forego annual elections if the number of candidates who have filed for a particular office is equal to the number of positions in the office to be filled by the election?
YES –
NO –
Niangua: Shall the City of Niangua issue its sewerage system revenue bonds for the purpose of upgrading the wastewater treatment plant?
YES –
NO –
Polk County Fire District: Shall the Board of Directors of the Central Polk County Fire Protection District be authorized to levy an additional tax?
Letters for March 28
Earth cannot sustain global human population
Estimates for a sustainable global population based on resource needs for a comfortable modern lifestyle come in at about 2.5 billion, beyond which our resource base begins to deteriorate due to over-exploitation. We exceeded this after about 1950 and are now 7.8 billion. The consequences are evident in the form of shortages, biodiversity loss, excess migration, global warming, etc. Yet, discussing this topic has been a virtual taboo since the 1970s, as politicians and economists willfully ignore it despite a rapidly rising chaos that is leading to the same kind of social disorder and collapse that occurs in a rat colony allowed to breed freely in a limited enclosure.