Our view: A prudent strategy
Sometimes the best step forward requires taking a step back.
On Tuesday, the Columbus City Council appeared to be set to enter a three-year contract with a commercial consulting firm at the urging of Councilman Charlie Box.
Slimantics: Carver, Perkins, Vaughn unlikely leaders of the LGBT parade
Someday, when the story of the LGBT struggle for Civil Right in Mississippi is told, people such as Ben Carver, Roy A. Perkins and Henry Vaughn will be regarded as pioneers of the movement.
Voice of the people: Cameron Triplett
According to Wyatt Emmerich Mississippi is vastly improving fiscally and in government accountability and openness under Republican leadership.
Our view: What we can learn from dolphins
In studies of bottlenose dolphins, marine biologists have discovered something interesting about their behavior toward sick or injured pod mates.
Wyatt Emmerich: Fiscal responsibility to be focus of upcoming legislative session
Thanks to the Stennis-Capitol Press Forum, I was able to receive a briefing on the current Legislative session from both the leaders of the Mississippi House and the Senate.
Voice of the people: Sanders Weatherby Sr.
The railroad street crossing This letter is in reference to the proposed closing of a certain railroad street crossing in the south side of the
Voice of the people: Berry Hinds
Concerned about transparency The Columbus city council tabled a motion to enter into a contract with a retail recruiting company to allow time to talk
Outtakes: Harper recovers well from surgery
He is a Labrador retriever and anyone who owns one will understand this. Harper, my dog, eats stuff. When it comes to what, he does not discriminate.
Our view: A step we all must take
In America, we set aside special days to commemorate, reflect and renew our resolve about a subject. These national holidays come and go, but often the fervor the holiday ignites is gone as quickly as the holiday itself.
Froma Harrop: Is West Virginia a cult?
After decades of suffering environmental torture at the hands of polluting industries, West Virginians might regard a chemical spill that poisoned the drinking water of 300,000 residents — and is still scaring folks after the dangers have presumably passed — as a last straw. But there never seems to be a last straw for them.
Just what we need, another committee
In the beginning, God formed a committee to discuss the status of earth.
The committee met regularly for a few millennium before releasing its report, which concluded that the earth was “without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.”
Voice of the people: Cameron Triplett
Private and public schools I just love the nom’s de plume used by some of the posters to The Dispatch website. Some are humorous, and
Possumhaw: Frozen lakes can be fatal
The lake was frozen solid and there, in the center, was a pile of white duck feathers. I ran for the telescope and stood at the window to see if the ducks were moving at all; it was hard to tell. I panicked. Could I save them if they weren’t already dead?
Ask Rufus: The Columbus Mint Julep
January may be a strange time to bring up the mint julep but maybe it makes a good forerunner to springtime and warmer weather.
Roses and thorns 1/19/14
A rose to all the volunteers around the Golden Triangle who are commemorating the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday this weekend. On Saturday, Columbus-area folks
Leonard Pitts: A big issue for small minds
Everybody’s got something.
Maybe it’s something you were born with, maybe something that happened to you, maybe something you did to yourself through bad habits or neglect. But everybody’s got something, some physical or emotional blemish measuring the distance from you to perfection.
Birney Imes: Watching eagles at Locafoma Lake
On a recent Saturday morning an intrepid group of nature enthusiasts gathered on a strip of pavement at the eastern edge of Locafoma Lake in the Noxubee Wildlife Refuge. They had braved wind and sub-freezing temps in hopes of seeing the Refuge’s resident eagles. They had not come in vain.
Kathleen Parker: Let’s give pot smokers a little leeway
Everybody’s doing it — confessing their youthful, pot-smoking ways — so here goes.
I don’t remember.
Kidding, kidding. Anyone over 30 recognizes the old adage: If you remember the ’60s, you weren’t there. Nyuk-nyuk-nyuk.
Charles Krauthammer: How in good conscience?
By early 2011, writes former defense secretary Robert Gates, he had concluded President Obama “doesn’t believe in his own [Afghanistan] strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his.”
Our view: Time for railroad to do the right thing
Back in August officials from the Mississippi Department of Transportation, Kansas City Southern Railway and the Columbus City Council held a public hearing to discuss a proposal to close six Southside railroad crossing while adding safety upgrades to other crossings.