STARKVILLE – School desegregation in Mississippi was a tough, messy and often a very dangerous business. None knew those truths better than the white and black Mississippi school superintendents, principals, classroom teachers, coaches and students who were charged a half-century ago with catching the judicial hot potato known as Alexander v.
Politicians are expected to give a rosy picture during their executive addresses. And especially when it’s their final one before leaving office, as it was for Gov. Phil Bryant Tuesday, then the speech is a way to frame the discussion about their legacy.
I read with much interest the front page article in The Enterprise-Tocsin by Bryan Davis titled “Coming home – Aspiring surgeon Simpson to teach science at Ruleville” and, yes, I receive our hometown of Indianola’s newspaper weekly. For me this story was about a young man’s career aspirations and his planned path to achieve it.
Gross domestic product is the most basic and important measurement of an economy, and a new statistic allows it to be tracked at the local level for the first time.
Momentum is building across Mississippi to allow rural electric cooperatives to provide high-speed internet. The state House Public Utilities Committee passed a bill Monday that would do so, and it seems likely that the idea will ultimately pass with support from both Republicans and Democrats.
Delbert Hosemann is a spry 71. He has the slim build of the longtime long-distance runner he is. Although he’s not done a half-marathon in two years, he still runs 3 or 4 miles every other day and keeps a 9-minute-per-mile pace. That wouldn’t be shabby for someone 30 years younger.
This is the big one, the year so many election positions are on the ballot that it’s hard to keep up with them all. And based on the number of qualifiers already for offices in Marion County, it’s going to be a busy political season.
A book released this week by a veteran reporter points out the problems, proven by both science and experience, caused by marijuana use.
Criminal justice is probably the most fundamental responsibility of government. It’s no easy task. There is a trend, both nationwide and statewide, to reduce incarceration levels, which are the highest, by far, in the world.
In Ecclesiastes 3, the Bible says “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under Heaven.” The time for me has come to begin to say farewell to the place I’ve called home for nearly a decade. Yes, you’ve probably heard by now that I’m leaving Columbia.
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