Our View: County’s handling of Longview Road project is inexcusable
The stretch of road that connects Highway 12 and Highway 25 in Oktibbeha County is named Longview Road.
Our View: Budget oversight signals need for more attention to detail, but city transparency should be commended
On Monday, Columbus City Council discovered what it thought would be a $550,00 surplus in its proposed FY 2022 budget was instead a $1 million deficit.
Our View: Getting debt plan in place is first step to better finances
If you’ve ever consulted a financial advisor to sort out your finances, you know that the first thing that expert will likely do is look at your debt — particularly credit card debt.
Our View: Feeding hospital staff is a great way to show appreciation
COVID-19 has been a part of our lives for more than 18 months now. By this point, virtually everyone knows someone — a family member, friend co-worker, neighbor — who has died from contracting the virus. Beyond that, the virus has altered some of the daily rhythms of life. We are not back to “normal,” and we don’t know when that day will come.
Our View: Higgins’ board resignation signals Communiversity concerns
Long before the phrase “workforce training” became a mantra of every candidate for statewide office, Joe Max Higgins was sounding the alarm about Mississippi’s shortage of skilled manufacturing workers.
Roses and thorns: 8/29/21
A rose to the Facebook group “Friends of Lake Lowndes” for their efforts to clean up and beautify the state park in the eastern part
Letter: Citizens should support mayor
Having lived nearly four score years, I feel that I grew up in the best of times, raised my family in the good times and
Our View: A Shakespearian question on city finances
To audit or not to audit? That’s the question.
Our View: IHL should act to mandate vaccines
When the subject of college competition emerges, we most often think of athletics. In a wide variety of sports, Mississippi’s eight state-supported universities compete robustly, often against each other.
Our View: Important LINK board opening is chance to play important role
On Tuesday night, the Columbus City Council voted to table an appointment to the Golden Triangle Development LINK Board of Directors after neither of the two applicants — Quincy Harris and Colin Krieger — were able to get the four votes needed for the appointment.
Our View: County’s helping hand a good signal
On Monday, the Lowndes County Board of Supervisors agreed to allow its road department to assist the Columbus Public Works Department in picking up debris around the city, primarily tree limbs, branches and other yard waste.
Our View: Local governments again bearing burden of mask policies
On Friday Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves broke his long silence to address the skyrocketing COVID-19 numbers but failed to implement any statewide mandates. As it
Our view: County, LCSD should move forward after fee-in-lieu ruling
Since the turn of the millennium, Lowndes County has seen something of an industrial revolution. Over the past two decades, we’re seen the arrival of steel mills, heavy manufacturing, aerospace technology and, most recently, solar power facilities.
Our view: Fat dogs and school kids
When you see a fat dog, you know its owner needs more exercise.
Our View: ‘Bombshell’ report on public salaries is a dud
Before the 1930 baseball season, Yankees’ slugger Babe Ruth signed a one-year contract for $80,000, what was then a staggering sum. The idea that a baseball player could make that sort of money was offensive to some people as the Great Depression descended on the nation.
Our View: A new policy to focus on local issues
Each day, The Dispatch presents its Opinion page as a forum to interpret the news. We do that through a combination of editorial cartoons, columnists — both from staff and syndicated sources — and editorials, which represent the opinions of senior newsroom staff.
Our View: Hopefully schools will make the right decisions
With the school year just around the corner, school officials are facing a difficult decision about what COVID-19 protocols should be implemented.
Our View: McConnell has continued MSMS’s enrichment of Columbus
During his appearance at Tuesday’s Columbus Rotary Club, Germain McConnell announced he’ll be leaving the Mississippi School for Math and Science in December after 10 years at the state-run public residential high school, the last eight as the school’s executive director.
Our view: Bob Moses made Mississippi better
The death of Civil Rights leader Bob Moses, 86, on Sunday will be noted across the world by those who believe in the cause of racial justice.
Our View: Setting Trotter policy will help build confidence in city
It’s been a busy three weeks since mayor Keith Gaskin and the new Columbus city council was sworn into office. Some of the moves required immediate attention, such as hiring Neel-Schaffer Engineering to take over management of a major street paving project after the city’s contract with J5 Global expired in June and making some key hires, including Mark Alexander Jr. as the city’s interim chief operations officer.
