Before Brown v. Board of Education ordered desegregation of public schools, before Emmett Till’s murder woke up the nation, before the Freedom Riders drew attention to conditions for black people in the South, before the Voting Rights Act guaranteed everyone equal access to the polls, there was Jackie Robinson.
Back in the days when daily newspapers published free obituaries, reporters assigned to write them sometimes jokingly complained about retired farmers. Their list of survivors tended to be long, thus requiring more time to type them into the obits, as well as increasing the possibility for error, such as misspelling a name.
Robert F. Smith is a billionaire hedge fund operator whom few Americans had heard of before this week. That is changing, as his surprising pledge at Sunday’s Morehouse College commencement ceremony in Atlanta is making national news and virtually guarantees he’ll be in high demand as a future graduation speaker.
It’s hard to imagine that I won’t go to another high school baseball game this season. Man has it been a whirlwind. A 14-inning thriller for the right to go to the state championship seems like a fitting end, but I really had wished it would have ended a different way.
STARKVILLE – How big an impact does forestry make on Mississippi’s economy? For the last six years, the Mississippi State University Extension Service says that forestry contributed more than a billion dollars annually with an estimated value of $1.2 billion in 2018 alone.
Reporters in this state can testify it’s nearly impossible to get information about an arrest made by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics and other state investigative bodies.
From the bagpipes to the presentation of flags and roses, Thursday’s Fallen Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony was a touching tribute to the eight men who have died in the line of duty in Marion County.
The proposed mayor of Bellevue says there’s a question for Columbia about who will be the closest city to its east: a newly incorporated Bellevue or Hattiesburg extending nearer through annexation.
And John Adcock said in a talk to the Columbia Rotary Club May 7 that he believes Bellevue would be a really great neighbor.
The Columbian-Progress followed a recent article about population decline in Marion County with a reader poll asking opinions on how to best reverse that decline.
Readers were given only the following answers from which to choose and their answers broke down in the following percentages:
The evidence continues to grow that technology companies, in their single-minded determination to develop better products, essentially are spying on their customers.
