Letter: 25 years in business
This week marks a very special milestone for our community — Allegro Med Spa is celebrating its 25th birthday! Originally founded as the very first
Possumhaw: Lost Art
Last Wednesday the family sat out on the porch in the cool of the morning. The family at home includes Sam, Wilhelmina the cat, and me. We enjoyed the awakening of the first day of October.
Our View: Keeping city’s parking lot is the right call
For years, the city-owned parking lot located at the northeast corner of Sixth Street South and College Street next to the First Methodist church in Columbus has mostly been used by the church.
Letter to the editor: Bill Gillmore
Response to McCarthy column I spent a sleepless night thanks to Daniel McCarthy’s latest column. My head was filled with memories of the Hippie days,
Roses and thorns: 10-4-25
A rose to the Columbus City Council which voted unanimously to opt out a new law that targets panhandlers by requiring them to obtain a
Thom Caraccio: Would I lie to you?
It usually just takes a word to trigger my dormant mind.
Ask Rufus: Rescuing the white horses
I recently watched the 1963 Disney movie “Miracle of the White Stallions.” The movie was a fascinating and fairly accurate though condensed depiction of the saving of the Lipizzaner horses from the German SS and the Red Army at the end of World War II. It was based on one of the strangest military operations of the war.
Our View: With AI, it’s time for old dogs to learn new tricks
Man has used technology since the first stone tools were invented, but today new technology seems to emerge constantly. Obviously, not everyone uses every technology
Letter: Government shutdown must end
We must end this government shutdown immediately and get back to the people’s business. The politicians in Washington will not miss one paycheck. Their insurance
Letter: Likes ‘Welty’ for MUW
I still think my idea of changing the name of my alma mater, Mississippi University for Women, to Welty University is the best alternative for
Our View: Government shutdown will hit Mississippians hard
There are few states more likely to be watching what happens now that the federal government has been shut down than Mississippi.
Our View: Grant and Lincoln presidential collections remind us of the importance of a united nation
When the Grant Foundation’s collection of the papers and mementos of Ulysses S. Grant was moved from Southern Illinois University to Mississippi State in 2008, it might have easily been considered a novelty that quickly faded from public attention.
Possumhaw: Then and now
September used to be when we returned to school. By Labor Day we were wearing flannels and knee socks. Football was up and going. The stadium was full, the game was going well, we were jumping up and down shouting our cheerleader slogans and so on.
Slimantics: Wounded Knee: A Trump love story
When Dee Brown was a child growing up in the 1920s around the oilfields of Louisiana and Arkansas, many of his playmates were Native American children, whose fathers, like Brown’s, drifted over from Oklahoma to work in the oilfields.
Roses and thorns: 9-27-25
A rose to everyone who helped, for now, preserve the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science on the MUW campus. This week’s announcement from Mississippi
Thom Caraccio: Tattoo who?
I’ve been around a long long time, and you wouldn’t think I could be surprised by much of anything. In an age of strange and sometimes bizarre stuff, it’s getting harder and harder for me to raise an eyebrow.
Kimberly Ross: It’s okay to trust some science
Our binary system of politics is frustrating for those who do not align with either major political party.
Ask Rufus: William Cocke and the founding of Columbus
The entire direction of William Cocke’s life changed with the outbreak of the War of 1812. A phase of that war in the South was the Creek Indian War of 1813-1814.
Our View: Adaptation and community service carries the Y forward
On Oct. 30, 1929 – six days after the stock market crash that would plunge the nation into the Great Depression – the successful completion of the building fundraising campaign for the Columbus YMCA touched off a celebration the likes of which the city had never seen. Reports of the day noted that hundreds of people poured out into the streets. Church bells pealed. Fire alarms were set off, automobile horns blasted and train whistles blew.
Letter: Supports investing 100% of OCH proceeds
Thank you for your Our View opinion of Sept. 18, covering the OCH windfall. I have lived in Starkville since 1962. During that time we
