Thom Caraccio: Married man’s manual
Ask yourself this. If you were expected to learn how to fly a Boeing 747 or perform a brain operation with a surgical laser, they would at the very least provide you with a thick manual. Or at least SOME kind of pamphlet!
Jiben Roy: Life & death in nature
Look at the Azalea flowers! How beautiful they were!
Ask Rufus: Walking through history
It is springtime, and next week is shaping up for some pretty days. It will be the perfect time to go for a walk on the Columbus Riverwalk.
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.
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.
Possumhaw: Walking in Wales
Perhaps last Tuesday you noticed Possumhaw did not find its way to the newspaper.
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…
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.
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.
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.
Thom Caraccio: I want a phone… to actually call someone
Was Steve Jobs a good person? Well, destroying society and all of human civilization kinda takes you out of the running for “Mr. Nice Guy of the Millennia.”
Ask Rufus: Dr. John Richards, Columbus’ connection to the Titanic
Last Tuesday afternoon I was on Mississippi Supertalk Radio’s “Good Things With Rebecca Turner” program telling about a Mississippi connection to the Titanic.
Sid Salter: In Mississippi’s Medicaid debate, look at rapidly increasing rural mortality rates
As Mississippi legislators head to conference on the state’s first sincere consideration of some form of Medicaid expansion, we’ve heard alarms sounded by the right and the left on why the state alternately should or should not expand Medicaid coverage for the state’s working poor.
Slimantics: No good or bad, just important
I had been sports editor at The East Valley Tribune, located in the Metro Phoenix area, for only a few months when the newspaper’s editor, Alan Geere, announced in our editor’s meeting that we would be trying something different for the July 22, 1998 edition of the paper.
Possumhaw: Somewhere between here and there
For the last eight years I’ve been tapping out these columns on my Dell 11 inch laptop. I loved that little computer.
Thom Caraccio: It’s Shake and Bake and I hailped
TV commercials were born about the same time as I was. They have been stitched into our lives to the point where we hardly give them a thought.
Ask Rufus: A timeline of the founding of Columbus
I’m always digging into southern history with Carolyn Kaye and Gary Lancaster, and new information is constantly turning up.
Sid Salter: Prison system history begs to break the recidivism cycle
After more than 40 years of reporting and writing about crime and punishment in Mississippi, I’ve seen the pendulum swing from “get tough” to “out of sight, out of mind” to “who’s making money off the system now?”
Jiben Roy: The ideas – the most important
The other day I was watching a Bengali TV serial called “Hunter.” It was about the killing of a sparrow. At the end, it gave the link on which it is based.