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Possumhaw: Why leaves change colors
Outside the window it was raining leaves. From the kitchen window the leaves of the black cherry tree looked red, but up close they were the colors of leaping flames, red, yellow and orange. I gathered leaves and returned to the kitchen.
Kathleen Parker: Binders are what's wrong with politics today
Rheta Johnson: Kinda like Cuba, cruisin' the coast
George Will: Seeds of our dysfunction
Elections supposedly prevent convulsions, serving as safety valves that vent social pressures and enable course corrections. November's election will either be a prelude to a convulsion or the beginning of a turn away from one.
Ask Rufus: 1818, A Year of Changes
The first structure built in Columbus was a log house erected in the late fall of 1817, but it was not until December 1819 that the new settlement was officially recognized as a town. In the Tombigbee River Valley 1818, the year that was in between, was a transitional year.
Susan Estrich: World Series time
Who are these undecided voters? The one thing that seems clear is that there aren't many of them. The harder question is how anyone who really does plan to vote could still be struggling with whom to vote for.
Our view: Harry, Ralph need 'a night in the box'...
Strother Martin's character in the movie, "Cool Hand Luke" said it best: "What we have here is failure to communicate.''
Our view: Term limits: an idea whose time has come
One of the universal criticism of a free press is that bad news seems to dominate its pages. Although that claim is more imagined than real, it is a charge that newspapers cannot dismiss out of hand.
Slimantics: Mississippi needs a different 'growth industry'
It was a March afternoon in 2007. I was sitting in my bunk at Durango Jail, reading a year-old copy of TIME Magazine the crack staff of the Maricopa County Jail system had provided for the reading pleasure of the inmates they had stacked like cordwood into Building 4, A Pod.
Much at stake for Mississippi in 2012 elections
Some would call it The Mississippi Paradox. One the one hand, we say we want the federal government off our backs, yet on the other we say want more dollars coming to Mississippi from Washington. The presidential election will dramatically have an effect on both these statements.
Possumhaw: Season of spiders
Hanging between the cedar post and the gardenia bush is the web of a garden spider.
Birney Imes: A walk in the park
Voice of the people: Tom Velek
It not typical for The Dispatch to publish snarky, anonymous articles. Yet on Friday there it was, "Is Hazel in charge of the Columbus Soccer Complex?" The article was complete with a haughty yet meaningless literary/cinematic reference. The writer seems to be trying to make a point about the intelligence level of those that planned the stunning, new Columbus soccer complex. The article, however, does more to illuminate the writer's lack of experience with similar facilities and the typical usage of this complex.
Our view: 'Ideas Tour' an encouraging initiative
Mississippi Speaker of the House Philip Gunn brought his "Mississippi Solutions -- An Ideas Tour" to Columbus on Tuesday. About 75 citizens, a third of them 10th-graders from Lowndes County Young Leaders group, packed themselves into the old municipal courtroom at City Hall.
It's time for 'Abstinence Plus Everything'
In Sunday's Dispatch, reporter Sarah Fowler tackled a problem that has reached epidemic proportions in Mississippi -- teenage sex.
Voice of the people: Cameron Triplett
When I read the article, Study: Free birth control leads to fewer abortions, I had one of those "Well, duh!" moments.
Possumhaw: Time to get checked
Last year Carole found out she had a mass. Carole is one of those people who does everything right. She eats right, exercises and gets annual mammograms. So when the doctor said he saw something suspicious, Carole wasn't worried. If it was cancer it had to be small. Right?
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