Slimantics: Comradery of elementary school may be a relic of a bygone era
I read with interest John Botes’ letter to the editor lamenting the consolidation and closures of the elementary schools in the city of Columbus.
Sid Salter: Trump verdict: Partisan hyperbole ignores statistical realities of voters
The 34 guilty verdicts in the New York state court trial of former President Donald Trump on felony charges of falsifying business records of alleged “hush money” payments to an adult film actress as part of a scheme to influence the 2016 election has opened the floodgates on a river of partisan political hyperbole from both sides of the aisle.
Possumhaw: Stop, look, listen
Last week I headed west on Highway 82 behind a logging truck. I kept my distance but oddly enough was glad to be following the truck at a safe distance behind.
Slimantics: Was the third of June…
I’m not a songwriter, but I do have a suggestion for those who are.
Mississippi Voices: Reps. Karriem, Summers respond to the governor’s suffrage vetoes
Getting legislation that restores individuals’ voting rights to the governor’s desk is no easy feat. I
Thom Caraccio: Medical boo-shee
When I write a column, I like to start with a title. I was scratching my head on this one though. I just knew that on this subject I would meander all over the place.
Ask Rufus: The early gardens of Columbus
On Thursday night I took a group of visiting Chickasaw, Choctaw and Mississippi State University archaeologists on a walking tour of the Southside Historic District in Columbus.
Slimantics: Integrating stats makes baseball’s history more complete
The game of baseball, more than any other, is a game of numbers, and for almost 100 years, Ty Cobb’s career batting average of .366 was accepted as the best ever.
Sid Salter: Union push continues to impact the future of state’s robust auto manufacturing sector
After winning 73 percent of the vote on April 19 among workers in a Chattanooga, Tennessee Volkswagen plant to join the United Auto Workers union, organized labor leaders began to predict a growing erosion of decades of Southern state opposition to labor union membership. Specifically, union leaders began to predict victory in an upcoming union vote in Mercedes plants in Vance and Woodstock, Alabama.
Possumhaw: Nature doesn’t hurry
Sometimes it’s not what you see but what you don’t see. A friend called one day and asked if I had birds at the feeder. “Very few,” I said.
Slimantics: Supervisors should avoid a ‘monumental’ mistake
At some point, the Lowndes County Board of Supervisors may be tempted to erect a monument on the grounds of the Lowndes County Courthouse to honor some significant event or fallen heroes.
Thom Caraccio: TV shows taking us to strange places
We live in a bizarre time. If you want a snapshot of what a culture is like, don’t bother reading the books, watching the plays and movies or listening to the skanky speeches of politicians.
Ask Rufus: Memorial Day at Friendship Cemetery
Columbus was not the first place where flowers were placed as a healing act on graves of soldiers.
Jiben Roy: Music or songs in our life
Happiness and sadness belong to our everyday lives. This is like light versus dark. However, I am thinking of something different.
Sid Salter: Does Supreme Court case in Louisiana signal changes in Southern state delegations?
In a Louisiana congressional redistricting case, the Supreme Court decided last week to allow the state to use congressional maps that created a second Black majority district among the state’s six total districts.
Possumhaw: Porch sitting
The cicadas still hum. Wilhelmina takes off chasing something I don’t see. Perhaps a lizard, a skink, a moth or butterfly. She comes back with nothing; that is good.
Thom Caraccio: Love story two… southern version
When I tell people “Why yes…I have dated a 14 year old girl…hasn’t everyone?” they tend to pull their daughter or wife tight to them and glare at me with murderous intent.
Ask Rufus: Memories of ‘A Most Strange Wedding of the Frogge and the Mouse’
As we grow older certain occurrences of childhood often come to mind.
James Samuel: Who is responsible for gun violence?
There is a plague, a pestilence in the “Land of Promise!” The malady is of a socio/political/cultural upheaval within the social order of our heretofore “family oriented” social order.
Jiben Roy: Celebrity aging inspires us
Several weeks back I wrote “Celebrity deaths remind us of dying.” Now I realize that celebrity aging inspires us too. It is encouraging that we are in the time of many centenarians.