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An education from mother to son is a special kind of love
Last Sunday marked the third year that my wife Emily celebrated being a mother on Mother's Day. It's hard to believe that our son Aaron will turn three years old in July. The whole experience sheds...
May 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Always learning from life’s little lessons
On the day of my graduation from Immaculate Conception High School for Girls in 1993, my life's dreams were big. I planned on a jet-setting career in journalism - traveling the world, running out o...
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Tax fairness gets a victory with Marketplace Fairness Act
The U.S. Senate has taken a big step toward leveling the playing field between Internet and brick-and-mortar retailers - and helping out strapped state treasuries to boot. Monday, senators passed t...
May 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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When it comes to mothers, I’ve got great role models
As the days click by in the third trimester of my pregnancy, the upcoming celebration of Mother's Day has brought much reflection to the kind of mother I wish to be. Luckily, I have been blessed w...
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Kalich: Obama misjudges on sequester flight delays
It was said of 1930s fascist dictators Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler that regardless of the atrocities during their brutal regimes, they did "make the trains run on time." Even that has been ca...
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Political rivals come together at Bush’s library opening
All the living former U.S. presidents, along with the current one, coming together for the dedication of the George W. Bush presidential library Thursday was a refreshing respite, albeit a brief on...
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Putting people back to work a good investment
by Amanda Sexton Ferguson, Editor and Publisher
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
Last week, the Mississippi Legislature met in a special session called by Governor Phil Bryant to discuss an incentive package for a Japanese tire manufacturer hoping to relocate to the West Point ...
Governor Bryant backing Jim Hood's BP lawsuit
by Charles Dunagin Enterprise-Journal
Apr 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
Jim Hood's lawsuit against BP and other companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill three years ago probably has some of his Republican antagonists scratching their heads. However, Republ...
Are these corporate giveaways and incentives worth it?
by Tim Kalich, Greenwood Commonwealth
Apr 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
Word is that the Mississippi Legislature will be called into a special session soon to consider an incentive package for a new major industrial prospect. Details are sketchy, as they always are abo...
Be patient: Newly-paved road a blessing to city
by Amanda Sexton Ferguson, Editor and Publisher
Apr 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
For the past couple of weeks, crews have been busy repaving Middleton Road in Winona. With three-fourths of a mile to pave, traffic delays are expected and sometimes annoying. However, with severa...
Boston bombings: We should focus on those who helped
by Tim Kalich, Greenwood Commonwealth
Apr 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
What is the best adjective to describe the twin bombings at Monday's Boston Marathon that killed three and wounded more than 140? Horrific? Unfathomable? Depraved? Terrifying? All would qualify for...
Faith in criminal justice system tested, but still intact
by Chris Allen Baker The Scott County Times
Apr 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
While I still believe in our country and our system of democracy and criminal justice, I have to admit that faith has been shaken at times. I have seen juries let defendants go free when there wa...
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