Articles by Slim Smith
Slimantics: 1999 Governor’s race was one for the ages
At the time this column is being written, the results of the Mississippi Governor’s election are unknown. As the final days of the campaign wound down, there was a growing consensus that the margin would be small, perhaps even historically small.
Community Profile: Couple embraces first season owning deer processing business
Like most happy couples, Triston and Melanie Gardner have a lot in common.
Slimantics: Reeves or Presley? A checklist
On Tuesday, Mississippians will go to the polls to choose who will be the state’s next governor. The race pits incumbent Republican Tate Reeves against Democrat Brandon Presley.
Community Profile: New Hope graduate to be recognized as MSU Homecoming Queen
The Mississippi Excellence in Teaching Program provides a free education for teaching students, but there is a catch: To qualify, the student has to make a commitment to stay and teach in Mississippi for five years.
Slimantics: The $40,000 World Series ticket
Tonight, The Arizona Diamondbacks will begin play in their first World Series since 2001. I didn’t have to look this up. Memories of that 2001 Arizona team washed over me as I watched the team’s progression to the playoffs.
Community Profile: Historic marker brings Greene-Leech’s MUW story full circle
There are two occasions when Mississippi University for Women evoked tears from Laverne Greene-Leech.
Slimantics: Ruins R Us?
Here lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what is to be done with the half-finished amphitheater on the west bank of the Tombigbee River.
Community Profile: Doty has spent last 30 years training search and recovery dogs
About five years ago, Kathy Doty came to a candid realization: She wasn’t getting any younger, and her dogs weren’t getting any lighter.
Community Profile: Ex-social worker turns doll-making hobby into serious business
Kitty Murks grew up in West Point and went to school at Mississippi State with the idea of being a social worker.
A Gilded Age beginning, a Cuban parking meter crisis, and some of the best hall clocks ever made
You could blame it on a Catechism of the Catholic Church or, maybe, a changing marketplace. You could even blame it on Fidel Castro.
Slimantics: Borsig shot down Shad White’s argument nine years ago
State auditor Shad White was a political appointee by Gov. Phil Bryant in 2018, then was elected to the post in 2019. He is running for reelection this year, but you get the impression that his ultimate goal lies beyond the auditor’s office.
Community Profile: Husband’s baking skills make new business a piece of cake
Rob Johnson and his wife, Kelly Bryant, consider their custom baking company a team effort. One bakes and decorates, the other markets and promotes.
Slimantics: A confession… just in case
A few weeks back, as part of a routine insurance-policy mandated “Let’s put ‘er up on the rack and see what we got” exam, a CT scan revealed a shadow on my left kidney that looked like something a urologist could make some money off of.
Community Profile: Pepper the Print Shop Parrot has a lot to say
For 22 years, an African Gray Parrot has greeted customers at C&P Printing. Be careful what you say… parrots like Pepper have vocabularies of up to 1,000 words.
Slimantics: Tate Reeves in the role of Juror #3
Sidney Lumet’s 1957 film, “12 Angry Men” is broadly considered a classic.
Profile: ‘Ms. Shirley’ uses food truck to feed less fortunate in East Columbus
For more than 25 years now, Shirley Coleman and her food truck – Ms. Shirley’s – have been a fixture at Gateway Shopping Center in East Columbus, serving up the kind of comfort food Coleman, 61, has been cooking since she was a little girl.
Slimantics: Figuring out Fred
It was in early May and Tess was returning home from a week-long business trip when she called to tell me what time she expected to arrive, a courtesy to allow me time to disperse the hookers and hide the cocaine or, perhaps, vice versa.
Community Profile: Horse lover found the shoe fit for farrier career
In some respects, Greg Fulgham’s job is like being a manicurist.
Community Profile: Former home-builder stays busy cleaning headstones
Last fall, when Ray Troyer was looking for something to do in his retirement after 30 years as a home-builder, his first idea was to be a grave-digger.
Slimantics: Why boys should play girls sports
In November, voters will go to the polls to choose Mississippi’s 66th governor, a contest between incumbent Tate Reeves, a Republican, and Brandon Presley, a Democrat.
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July 12, 2025
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