Articles by Dispatch Editorial Board
Roses and thorns: 3-4-23
A rose to the Starkville Partnership for its efforts in encouraging citizens to pursue a healthy lifestyle that includes exercise. “Starkville Stride” challenges both businesses
Our View: Bee there, sit a spell
On Saturday, Mississippi’s top young spellers will compete in the Mississippi Spelling Bee on the campus of Mississippi University for Women. The field will include 42 local spelling bee champs from 40 counties, ranging from grades 2 through 8.
Our View: The self immolation of Dilbert’s cartoonist
As of today’s edition, The Dispatch will no longer carry the comic strip, “Dilbert,” joining hundreds of other newspapers who made the same decision after the strip’s creator, Scott Adams, unleashed a racist rant Saturday on a YouTube livestream.
Roses and thorns: 2-25-23
A rose to former Columbus mayor Robert Smith, who was appointed to the Columbus Municipal School District Board of Trustees during Tuesday’s city council meeting.
Our View: Do the children in your life have a path out of hopeless situations?
One of the things you learn early on in parenting is that a young child has no concept of privacy, neither yours, anyone else’s or even his own.
Our View: Decisions of McCrary, Willis and Colson continue to pay dividends
It is one of the least popular decisions ever made by the Lowndes County supervisors.
Roses and thorns: 2-28-23
A rose to our readers, who have endured many changes over the past few months at The Dispatch. The changes we have made – discontinuing
Our View: Concerns growing about CPD transparency
It’s been almost seven weeks since Joseph Daughtry took over as Columbus police chief, so it’s not unreasonable to assume that in many ways the former Natchez police chief is still transitioning into his new role.
Our View: Convenience store ‘drugs’ need unified approach
On Tuesday, Lowndes County supervisors declined to ban the sale of ZaZa (also called ZaZa Red or Tiana or colloquially “drug store heroin”) in the county, choosing instead to approach the Columbus City Council to hold a joint public hearing on the proposal.
Our View: City should move forward with Homeless Coalition request
For going on two months now, the Columbus City Council has been weighing the possibility of providing city-owned land to the Golden Triangle Regional Homeless Coalition for a “tiny home village” that would provide transitional housing for homeless people in our community.
Roses and thorns: 2-12-23
A rose to Col. Justin Grieve, Commander of the 14th Flying Training Wing at Columbus Air Force Base, for his plans to provide greater access
Our View: Is Armstrong Middle School an afterthought?
Everybody had a “junk drawer” in their home, a place to stash away odds and ends that may or may not be of some use at some point.
Roses and thorns: 2-5-23
A rose to Black History Month as schools across the country focus on history and contributions of Black Americans throughout the month of February. Black
Our View: Competitive races will make this an interesting election year
Andre Roberts had not intended to run for Lowndes County Chancery Clerk against incumbent Cindy Goode. Although Roberts, a security supervisor at Leigh Mall, has run for office before, he has never held an elected position.
Our View: Musical talent: It must be in the water around here
Any discussion of American musical history inevitably leads with Mississippi, and the list of musical geniuses from the state is out of proportion to its population.
Our View: Bravo to exposure of Girl Scouts to chemical engineering
Mention Girl Scouts and people generally think cookies. But Boston Rose sees Girl Scouts and thinks of tomorrow’s chemical engineers.
Roses and thorns 1-29-23
A rose to Oktibbeha County Hospital Regional Medical Center, which celebrated its 50th anniversary on Thursday. At a time when a majority of hospitals in
Our View: An inconvenient truth? Modified school calendars benefit kids
Two years after it first considered moving to a modified school calendar, the Columbus Municipal School district is poised to consider the idea again.
Chain’s life in the water leads to a lap around Key West
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