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Our View: Starkville expands pre-K capacity; state should too

By Dispatch Editorial Board • May 12, 2022

Older readers may remember a time when education began at age 6 with the first grade.

Our View: It’s past time for a Lowndes storm shelter west of the river

By Dispatch Editorial Board • May 11, 2022

At first blush, it may seem like just another old proverb:

Our View: Saggy pants and campaign finance

By Dispatch Editorial Board • May 3, 2022

There are some laws and ordinances that are never enforced.

Our View: A policy change for corrections

By Dispatch Editorial Board • April 30, 2022

This newspaper, like most other print media, strives to always report stories as accurately as possible. That’s sometimes challenging, especially considering constant deadlines and the fact our reporters and editors have to become experts on subjects in very short order.

Our View: Services are there, but acknowledging a child’s special need is difficult

By Dispatch Editorial Board • April 28, 2022

We ask a lot of our school teachers that go beyond the title itself.

Our View: A new type of research paper: podcasts

By Dispatch Editorial Board • April 26, 2022

For older readers, the high school research paper meant taking an assigned topic and spending long after-school hours in the public library navigating the mysteries of card catalogs and the Dewey Decimal System, scanning the pages of thick books to find a relevant nuggets or two, compiling bibliographies and footnotes, followed by the arduous chore of putting all those elements together, typed and double-spaced, into some sort of coherent manuscript.

Our View: Aldermen’s responsiveness on parking should be commended

By Dispatch Editorial Board • April 20, 2022

Call it an occupational hazard.

Ankle monitors offer promising alternative to pre-trial incarceration

By Dispatch Editorial Board • April 19, 2022

There is often a thumb on the scale of justice, particularly when it comes to a person’s economic status. The wealthier you are, the better the outcome in most cases and those disparities begin to emerge even before the trial process.

Our view: Gov. embarasses us all with Confederate Heritage Month proclamation, again

By Dispatch Editorial Board • April 15, 2022

On April 8, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves proclaimed April as Confederate Heritage Month, as he has in each of the three years since he became

Our View: ‘Lazy mowing’: One of several simple ways to help bees

By Dispatch Editorial Board • April 13, 2022

One of the great things about spring is the arrival of homegrown fruits and vegetables that we enjoy through the summer.

Our View: One more opportunity to experience nationally-recognized performance

By Dispatch Editorial Board • April 7, 2022

Imagine if, right here in our backyard, there were an affordable, family-friendly, educational, award-winning event featuring local students who’ve devoted months of research and rehearsal to a production that has gained national acclaim for the past three decades?

Our View: Competing baseball efforts are asinine, wasteful

By Dispatch Editorial Board • April 6, 2022

The last thing a drowning man needs is more water.

Our View: More monuments can help tell a fuller truth

By Dispatch Editorial Board • April 5, 2022

It has been said that a half-truth is a whole lie. But in some cases, a half-truth is worse than an outright lie. It is often a mingling of fact and falsehood that can cloud understanding, create division and sow the seeds of mistrust.

Our View: Teacher pay raise may not be enough to make Mississippi competitive

By Dispatch Editorial Board • March 31, 2022

There has rarely been a more popular bill to come out of the Mississippi legislature than House Bill 530, which provides Mississippi’s public school teachers with their first substantial raise in 25 years. After the bill emerged from conference, the Senate passed the bill unanimously (51-0) while only five of 173 representatives opposed the measure.

Our View: Disease awareness aids research, diagnosis

By Dispatch Editorial Board • March 30, 2022

March is Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month. You probably didn’t know that, which is the whole point of this editorial.

Our View: A shared optimism for the future after CFO hire

By Dispatch Editorial Board • March 24, 2022

For local governments, hiring a chief financial officer is always important. As the person tasked with managing the budget on a daily basis, the work he or she does affects almost every aspect of city operations.

Our View: Thank you Thomas Dobbs

By Dispatch Editorial Board • March 23, 2022

Years from now, when the purifying effect of time allows us to take a dispassionate view of the COVID-19 crisis, we will ask why it was that Mississippi suffered so badly from the pandemic relative to other states.

Our view: Awareness is the first step in combating litter

By Dispatch Editorial Board • March 18, 2022

Litter, like the weather, is something easy to complain about but harder to change, at least on a community-wide level.

Our View: House Speaker takes hypocritical view on infant health care

By Dispatch Editorial Board • March 17, 2022

For some time now, Mississippi’s leaders have pushed restrictive abortion laws as proof that it wants to make Mississippi the safest place for children in the nation, a place where even children yet to be born are afforded state protection.

Our View: Much to like in Lowndes County’s ARPA plan

By Dispatch Editorial Board • March 16, 2022

It has been a year since Congress passed the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act, providing $1.9 trillion to states, counties and cities throughout the country.

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