LOCAL COLUMNS
Charlie Mitchell: Champions of liberty are often the worst abusers
Bill Crawford: Newspapers vital to communities
Birney Imes: Random notes
Remember when Coke bottles had the name of the town where it had been bottled stamped on the bottom? The other day while my grandson and I were knocking around in a vacant lot, he found a piece of one of these old bottles with "Columbus, Miss." on the bottom. When I told him it was an old bottle, he asked if it had been around when Elvis was alive.
Ask Rufus:
Today, few people realize the extent of European activity during the 1700s in the Tombigbee Valley or how European conflicts between the French and English spilled over into our region. The 1700s were turbulent times in northeast Mississippi and west Alabama.
Charlie Mitchell: 'Painless taxation' a modern invention
When Joseph and Mary donkeyed up and headed for Bethlehem, they knew the reason. It was to visit the tax man and pay up.
Marty Wiseman: Municipalities: beachheads of opportunity
On a recent Tuesday the streets of many of our municipalities were lined with fellow citizens and supporters of mayoral, aldermanic, and council candidates waving signs and banners in behalf of their favorites. It was gratifying to see such an outpouring because in many of these towns the stakes are perhaps higher than they have ever been before.
Adele Elliott: Precious past
I have had the good fortune to live in two cities with rich histories. New Orleans and Columbus have many fascinating tales to tell. Both love the stories of their pasts and keep them alive with written and oral retellings.
Birney Imes: The white noise of the Internet
We've all witnessed it. You're in a restaurant and at a nearby table a couple sitting across from each other are both engrossed in their cell phones. A friend calls it "prayer meeting."
Slim Smith: Death: The second harshest penalty
Tuesday, I made the drive to Parchman to report on the execution of Willie Jerome Manning, who was convicted in 1994 of the 1992 murder of a pair of Mississippi State students in Starkville.
Ask Rufus: Spring in the Prairie
Prairies form the heart of the Golden Triangle Region. Three miles across the Tombigbee River from Columbus was Pitchlynn's Prairie, which centered around John Pitchlynn's 1820s residence.
Wyatt Emmerich: The problem with socialism ...
Froma Harrop: Three girls lost in Cleveland
Possumhaw: Ode to a screen door
"Bam," the screen door slammed. "Bam," it slammed again. It's a new sound coming from the back porch. I love the sound of a screen door slamming. I love the way a screen door can make you feel like your outside even if you're inside.
Charlie Mitchell: One of Mississippi's greatest assets is 'arable land'
OK, it was tacky to notice -- but I did. At a gospel singing to benefit efforts to get more nutritious food into Oxford schools, a couple of the choir members were -- and I have no room to talk -- "over-nutreated."
Birney Imes: At war with the beavers
Tuesday afternoon James Towery stood in a cluster of willow trees near the edge of Proctor Lake.
Slimantics: In election season, mayor pushes a different campaign
The primaries for the municipal elections will be held Tuesday, followed by the general election June 4.
Slimantics: Christians only? Lack of inclusiveness taints local Day of Prayer observance
Late this morning, people of a faith gathered on the lawn of the Lowndes County Courthouse to observe the National Day of Prayer.
Marty Wiseman: Five presidents and an enduring constitution
The United States, though still a young country by comparison, has the oldest continuous constitution of any country in existence in the world today.
Bill Crawford: Regionalism good for Golden Triangle
Just 15 months after they affiliated with his highly successful development team, Joe Max Higgins landed major Japanese tire manufacturer, Yokohama, and hundreds of high paying jobs for unemployment ravaged West Point and Clay County.
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