Letter: A clean slate after 17 years
It’s been some 17 years since I underwent the crushing crucible of the Mississippi justice system, being found guilty of the crime “fraud OR embezzlement”
Roses and Thorns: 7-12-25
A rose to the Columbus city council for considering a proposal to conduct the city’s first street assessment since 2000. City engineer Kevin Stafford brought
Letter: Endorses Kabir Karriem
August 5th is the day and District 41, which encompasses Columbus, is the place. We have got to cast our vote for the best qualified
Ask Rufus: Revisiting ‘The Sound of Distant Thunder’
Two years ago, I wrote a column, “The Sound of Distant Thunder,” about the extinct passenger pigeon. Last week, Carolyn Kaye was searching in old newspapers for articles on Columbus history and hit paydirt.
Thom Caraccio: The dance is dead
Over the decades, a cultural institution in America has quietly faded away into nothingness. Once a staple of adolescence, allowing teenagers their first opportunity to dip their toes into the mating pool, the school dance has gone the way of the dinosaur and the clutch pedal.
Letter: Response to Sid Salter
If you were a parent of a gifted child who was looking for colleges, you found out fairly quickly that opportunities to shine on a
Letter: Plane wrong
President Trump angrily posted that “this highly respected country is donating the plane to the United States Air Force/Defense department AND NOT TO ME [his
Our View: Taj Mahal High School in Starkville?
When Mississippi State submitted its plans for becoming the new home for Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science in February, it was noted that those plans were designed entirely on the premise of MSMS sharing some facilities with a new Starkville High School built on land owned by the university adjacent to the school district’s Partnership Middle School. There was no stand-alone plan for a MSMS campus.
Jiben Roy: The story of loneliness
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) finds that in 2024, 30% of adults say they have experienced feelings of loneliness at least once a week, while 10% say they are lonely every day. Is loneliness steadily increasing? Yes, indeed.
Our View: At last, on MSMS, Nora Miller is more Tom Petty, less Doris Day
Since the idea of moving Mississippi School for Math and Science from its home on the campus of Mississippi University for Women to a new site at Mississippi State University first emerged late in the 2024 legislative session, MUW president Nora Miller seemed to have struggled to find her voice.
Sid Salter: State’s modest gas tax hike is only a good first step to modernize our roads and bridges
High on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is a curious edifice, the Old State Capitol (formally, after the 1994 restoration, the Louisiana Museum of Political History) is a Gothic architectural wonder built to resemble a castle.
Our View: Gone fishin’ – and so has the whole office
Regular patrons of J. Broussard’s restaurant and bakery in downtown Columbus may have noted a June 21 post on the restaurant’s social media accounts announcing it would be closed “for a little summertime R&R” with the restaurant reopening on July 10 and the bakery opening the following week.
Letter: Will panhandling law be struck down?
In Louisiana 2017, Slidell had an ordinance restricting panhandlers which included a license fee to panhandle. A federal court found that violated First Amendment protections
Letter: Those who voted for OBBB should be voted out
The Big Beautiful Bill is an embodiment of the assumption that the rich deserve the best—ideally, to live forever; and the poor deserve nothing, to
Possumhaw: Thrifty and Frugal
Pulling these two books off the bookshelf I took them with me to the porch to spend some time with coffee and Wilhemina.
Thom Caraccio: Uncle James and his 40 year old dog
As I jog down the road of Columbus memories, there are numerous people I can never forget.
Roses and thorns: 7-5-25
A rose to Starkville residents and business owners who have joined the Starkville Police Department’s camera registry. SPD began the program in 2021 with the
Letter to the editor: Khadirah J. Allen
Believes Starkville should reopen business owner’s drive As an interested citizen observing the Highway 182 Revitalization Project through the media, I have followed the recent
Ask Rufus: The Strikin’ Snakes of the 50th FTS
In an Inactivation Ceremony at Columbus Air Force Base last Wednesday, Lt. Col. Nicole Janson commander of the 50th Flying Training Squadron, passed the squadron’s guidon to Col James Blech, the commander of the 14th Flying Training Wing.
Wyatt Emmerich: Amazon data center: Haste makes waste
The new Amazon data centers in Madison will consume 50 to 100 percent as much electricity as every other home, business and industry on the Entergy Mississippi grid combined.
