It takes a while to hit you sometimes when you’re witnessing a serious, yet seemingly innocent issue. For me it took about a month for this idea to formulate fully because I hadn’t put much thought into it to actually connect the dots and realize I wasn’t witnessing isolated incidents.
STARKVILLE — As of this year, nine states and the District of Columbia — including Alaska, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Maine, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont and Washington — have legalized the possession and recreational use of marijuana.
Mississippi is at the epicenter of one of America’s most terrible man-made disasters — the foster care system.
When I was a little boy my mother washed my mouth out with soap for saying a bad word — probably one I had overheard from my father.
I am not proud to report that the mouth-washing discipline — common in those days — had no long term effects.
Trick-or-Treat is almost here and for most of us that means one thing – candy. When the young ghosts and goblins come trekking to our doorsteps or wandering downtown to merchants or to churches for Trunk-or-Treats, they’ll be looking for certain candies.
Readers of this column know that I believe there is nothing new under the sun. Times change. Faces change. Technology advances. But all the basic themes of humanity were established long ago. As King Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 1:9. “What has been will be again. What has been done will be done again. There is nothing new under the sun.”
The Columbian-Progress published 1,638 local news stories in the past 12 months. That’s an extraordinary output for an organization with only two full-time journalists on its editorial staff.
“Everything in this newspaper is important to someone.” It’s become something of a mantra for me, in recent years.
We are seven weeks into the regular season for high school football, and with district action heating up the picture for the four area teams has begun to crystalize.
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