Articles by Dispatch Editorial Board
Our view: Our collective past
A phrase used by Donna Stark in a Local Voices piece in Monday’s Dispatch has caused a stir among our reader-bloggers.
Shannon Bardwell: Lowering the ‘lectric bill
Sam called from the office, “I got the mail, and there’s good news and bad news.”
The good news was I got a package, a gift of books, from a friend. The bad news was we got the electric bill, as well.
Donna Stark: Old times not forgotten
My grandfather, John Benjamin Beck, was born in 1862. His earliest memory was of his father, John T. Beck, waking him up where he was sleeping with his two older sisters in front of the fire. His father put the guns, swords, knives and ammunition he had assembled for his first cousin, Nathan Bedford Forrest, under the blankets in the bed and told the children to pretend to be asleep.
David Creel: Turn up the heat for spring
I sat on a the light blue Formica of my childhood home’s bathroom counter more than a few times in awe of my mama.
Cameron Triplett: Disagrees with letter writer
In the Feb. 9 edition of The Dispatch, Mr. James Clayton Terry questions the effort to clean up absentee ballots and their potential for abuse and misuse, wondering if those calling for changes might not be getting the “benefits” of fraudulent votes.
Our view: Where’s global warming when we need it?
We have a hard time remembering when a sunny day felt so cold in Columbus. We were emboldened Thursday afternoon, encouraged by the clouds parting and the snow dripping slowly off the rooftops. But looks were deceiving.
Rob Hardy: Soap, Science, & Flat-Screen TVs
I think the first time I heard of liquid crystals, they were used for a silly purpose, within the Mood Rings which were a fad 30 years ago. The “gem” held by the ring changed color; the color-change was based on the temperature of the finger, and of course that had nothing to do with the wearer’s mood.
Our View: With drama over, assess tourism priorities
It appears city and county leaders have found common ground over the makeup of the Columbus Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau. The council voted in a special meeting to follow the lead of the Lowndes County Board of Supervisors, with each body appointing two industry-specific members and one at-large member.
Raymond Gross: What Obama tax cuts?
Remember Obama steady bragging about not extending all those bad “Bush” tax cuts if he became president which would have increased everyone’s income tax in 2011? Remember all the national panic and melancholy about four months ago when he was still saying the same thing?
Sanders Weatherby Sr.: Disagrees with letter writer
In response to Cameron Triplett Sr. Feb. 4 letter, “Agrees with column.” You wrote: “Nobody wants to locate a business in a garbage dump.”
James Clayton Terry: Absentee voters
All my life I have seen and heard of politicians pulling off some of the dirtiest dealings to suppress po’ folks voting strength.
Our view: City needs a better plan for its planner
Columbus’ latest attempt to forge a comprehensive city plan died Thursday with the resignation of Patricia Southerland, who had occupied the new position of city planner for just five months.
Shannon Bardwell: Sounds in the Prairie
Early on, I started work for an insurance salesman on Main Street. He hadn’t had a secretary in a very long time. The only phone was on his desk.
David Creel: Rocking the baby, the sequel
Almost 24 years ago, I held her mother, then a newborn, in my clumsy, unaccustomed arms, and I fell hopelessly and madly in love, as my sister-in-law rested from her labor and I rocked baby Courtney for the first time.
Pedestrian in critical condition after being hit near Propst Park
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