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
Letter: Indicted politicians
In the early 1920’s, a politician who had been indicted, convicted and imprisoned wrote: It makes no difference whatever whether they laugh at us or
Lesley Davis: Biden administration declares war on biology—and on women
Last week, the Biden Administration issued a radical Executive Order through the Department of Education which effectively erases equal rights and opportunity for women.
Letter: Kristallnacht 2.0
Martin Niemoller was a Lutheran Pastor in Germany who was in Nazi prisons and concentration camps from 1937 until 1945 when those held in Nazi
Wyatt Emmerich: A flawed study on Medicaid expansion
As the state legislature debates expanding Medicaid, the Wall Street Journal recently published a column from a think tank arguing that Medicaid expansion has caused hospital profits to drop, thus Medicaid expansion is bad.
Sid Salter: After Wayfair, collecting (and paying) sales tax across state lines remains confusing
Back in 2018, the Supreme Court changed the way remote sales tax was assessed and collected, and in doing so, how government revenues will be impacted moving forward. The ruling came in a case styled South Dakota v. Wayfair.
Armstrong Williams: The lesson for gun owners in James and Jennifer Crumbley convictions
The convictions of James Crumbley and his wife, Jennifer, for their role in their son’s mass school shooting in Michigan, which resulted in the tragic murders of four and injuries of seven, tells us one thing: If you are an irresponsible gun owner, you will pay the price if a crime is committed with your gun.