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Slimantics: Hooray for transparency!
In a delicious bit of irony, Lavonne Harris of the NAACP went before the Columbus City Council to ask that the council use its influence in demanding more transparency from the Columbus Municipal School Board of Trustees.
Voice of the people: Rep. Gary A. Chism
Voice of the people: M. A. Whitehead
Charles Krauthammer: Obama's Dorothy doctrine
Our view: After the storm, challenges remain for CMSD
The storm is over. Now the clean-up begins. The Columbus Municipal School District Board of Trustees fired superintendent Dr. Martha Liddell Monday, whose bid to retain her seat by the only means apparently available -- turning the issue into a matter of race and gender -- failed in light of the facts that demonstrated clear examples of misconduct.
Charles Krauthammer: Pushing the envelope, NSA-style
Mississippi Voices: Kemper plant a prudent investment
Rating agencies and regulators expect utility companies to maintain sound risk management and long-term planning strategies. For this reason, electric utilities value diversity in power generation options.
Possumhaw: Up the road to West Point
The invitation came in the mail. West Point's Bryan Public Library was having their luncheon with books. I took the back way, up Old West Point road to Highway 45 Alternate and over to the library.
Birney Imes: Alfred Walker's century plant puts on a show
Saturday morning Wendell Rinehart and Alfred Walker were shooting the breeze in the den of Walker's ranch-style home on Martin Luther King Drive. Man cave might be a more apt description of the room, which sports a bar, shag carpet and a large glass table laden with glossy sports magazines. The wall-mounted TV was tuned to an ESPN NFL preview.
Ask Rufus: The red and blue of Mississippi A & M
With State playing in the College World Series this weekend, college baseball games of long ago come to mind. Even at the turn of the 19th century the rivalry between State and Ole Miss was fierce and in Oxford Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College (State's name back then) was called the "school for cow pullers." In the spring of 1897 the Red and Blue of Mississippi A & M played University (Ole Miss) a baseball game in Columbus.
Kathleen Parker: Googled to tears
At a party a few years ago, a young reporter bounded over to my cluster of social nodders and, with the breathlessness of a born tweeter, chirped: "What's the new hot thing?!" Without disturbing my mascara, I replied: "Anonymity." She looked befuddled.
Leonard Pitts: The curse of Redskins
See if this makes sense to you: For years, I've argued with certain African-American people about their insistence upon using the so-called N-word which, to my ears, is, inalterably, a statement of self-loathing. They say I don't understand. They say the word no longer means what it has always meant. They say it's just a friendly fraternal greeting.
Rheta Johnson: Willie, Red, Jack and the boys
GUTHRIE, Ky. -- When determined women form a committee, move out of the way and take cover. Something's going to happen. What happened here was the salvation of a so-called railroad bungalow on a corner lot. It was about to be sold and moved, red brick by red brick, to the university over in Bowling Green, but the ladies of Guthrie galvanized and said: "Wait just a minute. This is ours."
Susan Estrich: Bob Tur's public life
Our view: Celebrate Father's Day, if you insist ...
Sunday is Father's Day or, as the nation's florists like to call it, "vacation." If Father's Day does not typically produce the depth of emotion that always accompanies Mother's Day, it should not be taken as proof that moms are more loved or more important than dads.
Voice of the people: Lee Jones Hackett
Slimantics: Legislature: Just say 'no' to drug courts
Our elected officials have had plenty to say recently about the need for Mississippi to improve its education. A good place to start would be at the Legislature itself, which seems to have no grasp of the basic concepts of math.
Charlie Mitchell: High school newspapers
Susan Estrich: Privacy matters
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1. Our view: After the storm, challenges remain for CMSD DISPATCH EDITORIALS
2. Slimantics: Hooray for transparency! LOCAL COLUMNS
3. Voice of the people: Rep. Gary A. Chism LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (VOICE@CDISPATCH.COM)
4. Charles Krauthammer: Obama's Dorothy doctrine NATIONAL COLUMNS
5. Voice of the people: M. A. Whitehead LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (VOICE@CDISPATCH.COM)
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