Debra Saunders: Trump faces 34 felonies at trial. But was there a crime?
I can’t tell you how many people I know who do not like former President Donald Trump yet nonetheless smell prosecutorial overreach in Manhattan.
Our View: Release of school bond details a victory for district, citizens, newspaper
Two weeks before Columbus voters go to the polls to determine the fate of a $36 million bond issue for repairs and improvements in the Columbus Municipal School District, citizens finally have the information they need to make an informed decision.
Mona Charen: The Gaza protests are a mirror image of MAGA
Within the past 48 hours, student protesters occupied Hamilton Hall at Columbia University and then were forcibly removed by New York police. I knew that building well when I was an undergrad there in the 1970s.
Froma Harrop: Banning menthol cigarettes was always a bad idea
The Biden administration recently stopped a plan to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes. The excellent arguments for why they are dangerous were overcome by good arguments for why making them illegal didn’t make sense.
Mississippi Editors: Unconstitutional bill earns veto
The Mississippi Legislature got it half-right when it passed legislation earlier this year to insulate county election commissioners from partisan politics.
National Editors: Biden says he will debate Trump. When?
Is President Biden going to debate Donald Trump as the November election nears? “I am. Somewhere. I don’t know when,” Mr. Biden said Friday in an interview with Howard Stern. “I’m happy to debate him.” Nice to hear, though we’ll believe it when we see it.
Slimantics: Mississippi’s 11th-hour Medicaid expansion agreement is a hateful mockery
No state has a higher percentage of poor folks than Mississippi. And no state hates poor folks more than Mississippi, either.
Letter: Thank you from the YMCA
On Saturday, the Frank P. Phillips Memorial YMCA in Columbus celebrated its 100-year anniversary of its founding with a Community Block Party at our Downtown
Sid Salter: County Hall of Fame celebrates some bygone values in the current athletics landscape
It was my privilege a decade ago to speak at the inaugural Scott County Sports Hall of Fame induction when the organization was founded. For the induction of the 2024 class, organizers invited me back to help honor this year’s class.
Letter: Appreciates support of sports hall of fame
Personally and on behalf of the board of directors, I want to thank The Commercial Dispatch for your coverage of the launching of the Lowndes County Sports Hall of Fame which was reported in the April 24 edition and the encouraging words in the April 27-28 edition.
Our View: Public deserves details on $36M CMSD bond
On May 14, the Columbus Municipal School District Board of Trustees and Superintendent Stanley Ellis will ask voters to approve a $36 million bond to add, improve and renovate facilities in the district.
Possumhaw: Walking in Wales
Perhaps last Tuesday you noticed Possumhaw did not find its way to the newspaper.
Letter: Mayor endorses full Medicaid expansion
As Mayors we are entrusted with the responsibility to help create healthy communities. Communities where families can flourish, civic institutions are cooperative, and where businesses
Thom Caraccio: Thom and the Bandit… and a coffee cup
In 1971, when I was forced out of Mississippi at the point of a gun into exile in South Florida…
Roses and thorns: 4-27-24
A rose to Henry Matuszak and other members of a new nonprofit that will honor the sports legends of Lowndes County. Matuszak, a former long-term
Ask Rufus: ‘By the flow of the inland river; Whence the fleets of iron have fled.’
The poem “The Blue and the Gray” by Judge F.W. Finch of New York was inspired by the April 25,1866, actions of the ladies of Columbus decorating the graves of both Union and Confederate soldiers buried in Friendship Cemetery.
Jiben Roy: Somewhere something’s happening
It is very much true. Something is always happening. Either by nature or by humans.
Letter: Campus workers of Mississippi, unite!
This May 1, members of United Campus Workers of Mississippi (UCW-MS), a union representing faculty, students and staff across the state, are delivering petitions to
Slimantics: Confronting the past, ending the silence
Leroy Clemons was 6 years old, living in Philadelphia, Miss., in the summer of 1964 when hell came to town.
Our View: Is spring cleaning for hazardous waste? This weekend it is.
It may be tradition or, perhaps, that burst of energy you feel when spring weather arrives. Whatever the motivation, spring cleaning has become part of