“These are the times that try men’s souls.” The famous quote by Thomas Paine has definitely never been true than right now. The coronavirus has affected every aspect of our lives and as tired as most of us already are of it, we still have a ways to go.
As late as Tuesday, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves and Dr. Thomas Dobbs, the state health officer, were saying that ordering people to stay at home statewide was not necessary.
We interrupt our regular coronavirus coverage in this space for a special bulletin: I have inched closer toward my goal of a clear, crisp, perfectly framed photograph of one of Columbia’s famous white squirrels.
The $2.2 trillion stimulus package just enacted to soften the huge economic blow to the United States from the coronavirus has no precedent as far as magnitude.
Now that Americans are sufficiently scared by COVID-19 to start washing their hands, it’s time to start thinking about the economic damage caused by social distancing.
Of the many downfalls of the coronavirus pandemic, chief among them the lives lost to the disease and the families affected, COVID-19 is also responsible for stealing the lifelong memories high school seniors across the country make.
Even the most ardent critics of Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves must admit that he’s had a rough patch through little fault of his own during his first three months in office.
First, a statewide prison crisis, which had been building for years, broke early in 2020, leading to scores of deaths and gang riots.
Dear Editor,
To those of you who are in favor of annexation: Mayor McKenzie, Board of Aldermen and those at large, or as I would say, “hiding,”
Dear Editor,
If annexation is granted by the courts, it will inevitably be the newly annexed tax payers who are blamed for the tax increases levied by the city to ALL city residents. The majority of the 900-plus residents in the proposed annexation area simply do not want to be annexed into the city.
There are several causes about which I am very passionate, and among the top is respect for the military and our veterans.
