Voice of the people: Jim Hunt
Memories of WWII “D-Day and 70 years” on the front page graphically depicts the patriotism of The Dispatch. The picture of the Normandy Landing of
Froma Harrop: Fight heroin with marijuana
A plague of heroin addiction is upon us. Another plague. Heroin was the crisis that prompted Richard Nixon to launch the war on drugs in 1971.
Voice of the people: Jane and Jim Hunt
Mississippi needs Cochran Two Associated Press Writers, Phillip Elliott and Emily Wagster Pettus question whether Chris McDaniel’s idea for education in our state and city
Charlie Mitchell: Election processes vary more than people know
When a Sunday school class needs to elect a treasurer, a name is put forward and everybody says “aye.”
That’s that. Nice and simple.
Possumhaw: Gather the hay while you may
Sitting on the homemade bench, my one hand rested on Rex’s head. My fingers moved slowly and absentmindedly around his neck and over his long ears. The other hand held a book while I read to him.
Voice of the people: Melanie Corbell
Reporter’s on-air comments Let me start by saying I live in Columbus and have for the last 24 years. Before that I lived in Louisiana.
Ask Rufus: A simple framed Silver Star
Friday was the 70th anniversary of D-Day. It’s a day when I always think of my Uncle Orman Kimbrough.
Birney Imes: Local gardeners put on the dog
In the spring Columbus residents quietly and with little fanfare transform their town into an oversized botanical garden.
Froma Harrop: Not much to lose in move from coal
Barack Obama need not ask how well he’s doing in coal country, because the answer is always the same: Not well.
Ernie Pyle: D-Day, a pure miracle
Due to a last-minute alteration in the arrangements, I didn’t arrive on the beachhead until the morning after D-day, after our first wave of assault troops had hit the shore.
Ernie Pyle: A Long Thin Line Of Personal Anguish
In the preceding column we told about the D-day wreckage among our machines of war that were expended in taking one of the Normandy beaches.
Ernie Pyle: The Horrible Waste of War
I took a walk along the historic coast of Normandy in the country of France.
Lynn Spruill: Exercise is for the mind
There was a jogger the other day trotting down Starkville’s Main Street and he conjured up a dreadful case of jealousy that lingers even now.
Voice of the people: Cameron Triplett
From the June 5 paper Let me back up a bit first. I don’t know where Slim calls “home” (Tupelo, I think), but I grew
Our View: Old habits are hard to break
You know you have a habit when you preform the behavior even without thinking about it.
Case in point: Columbus city government.
Voice of the people: Jane and Jim Hunt
Let our leaders know how you feel If you have been reading The Dispatch recently, you have noticed its on-target editorials. One of the more
Leonard Pitts: While our planet melts, GOP pleads ignorance
It is irreversible now.
And there’s a word that should get everybody’s attention.
Our View: A question of leadership
When the state charter school authorizing board rejected a Columbus group’s plans to open a charter school on Monday, we could not help but notice the irony found in the board’s reasoning.
Kathleen Parker: With Bergdahl release, the answer had to be yes
The exchange of five Guantanamo detainees for the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has reminded us of three unpleasant facts of life.
Slimantics: We don’t even get to buy our own politicians anymore
Today marks the end of one of the most regrettable political campaigns in recent Mississippi history.