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Our View: From failing schools come failing communities

Ever year at this time, the Mississippi Department of Education releases its "report cards" for schools and school districts throughout the state.

Wyatt Emmerich: Towards safer streets

Posted yesterday in Local Columns

As fall approaches, the days get shorter with increasing rapidity.

Editorial cartoon for 10-20-17

Posted yesterday in National Columns

Our View: A weekend chock full of options

Posted 10/19/2017 in Dispatch Editorials

Aprils and Octobers are distant relatives (calendar-wise, at least), but share common traits.

Bill Crawford: Is Amazon becoming the new local job killer?

Posted 10/19/2017 in Local Columns

Rural communities just thought Walmart was the great job killer. Now comes Amazon.

Editorial cartoon for 10-19-17

Posted 10/19/2017 in National Columns

Connie Schultz: 'He didn't even remember his name'

Posted 10/19/2017 in National Columns

His name was La David T. Johnson.

Slimantics: The tragic sadness of 'Me, too'

Posted 10/18/2017 in Local Columns

I have never been an accomplice to a crime. Put another way, I have never been a victim of sexual assault/sexual abuse/sexual harassment. Those who have know precisely what I mean.

Editorial cartoon for 10-18-17

Posted 10/18/2017 in National Columns

Leonard Pitts: Making people uncomfortable is the point

Posted 10/18/2017 in National Columns

It "makes some people uncomfortable." That was the explanation Kenny Holloway, a school board official in Biloxi, Mississippi, gave the Sun Herald newspaper last week, for the board's decision to remove from its eighth-grade curriculum a Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic, Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Slimantics: Sometimes, even kids should be 'uncomfortable'

Posted 10/17/2017 in Local Columns

Last week, the Biloxi School District removed Harper Lee's classic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" from its eighth-grade language arts curriculum after complaints from some of the students' parents.

Voice of the people: Berry Hinds

Posted 10/17/2017 in Letters to the Editor (voice@cdispatch.com)

Editorial cartoon for 10-17-17

Posted 10/17/2017 in National Columns

Froma Harrop: Trump's long contentious history with health care

Posted 10/17/2017 in National Columns

The story of Donald Trump and health coverage rightly starts with the story of Donald Trump and William Trump.

Possumhaw: Them old cotton fields

Posted 10/16/2017 in Local Columns

A week ago, around every bend a field of cotton edged the road. The crops were defoliated, so stalks stood brown holding fluffy white cotton, like cotton candy on a stick. The fields are beautiful, lying in row after row as far as you can see.