As fast as the winter ice storm arrived it left. On a hilly gravel road out here in the Prairie there had been little or no traffic for a week.
At 1.13 billion, timber is the third biggest agricultural crop in Mississippi, behind poultry/eggs at $2.16 billion and soybeans at $1.21 billion.
As the U.S. House of Representatives voted recently to strip Marjorie Taylor Greene of all her committee assignments, I was reminded of two sections of the Constitution.
The other day I was reminiscing with Newell Robinson, a friend from childhood. We hadn't talked in decades. Newell, whose father, Dr. Jo Robinson, was a pediatrician here for many years, is a heart surgeon practicing in New York.
Recently I've been bombarded with questions from people who are deeply concerned about raising their children in a nation increasingly hostile to Christianity and its values.
A headline in the April 27, 1839, Columbus Democrat read, "Daring and Atrocious Murder." The news account began, "One of the most daring and outrageous acts of villainy in the annals of crime was perpetuated a few miles from our town."
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