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Editorial Roundup: Mississippi
Recent editorials from Mississippi newspapers: ___ April 20 The Greenwood Commonwealth on baseball and the pandemic: Baseball is a game in which coaches and managers are taught that if they want to increase...
Conservation groups sue Engineer Corps over Yazoo Pumps
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A coalition of conservation groups is suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over a massive flood-control project in the south Mississippi Delta they say was hastily approved in the final days of the Trump administration. American Rivers, National...
Editorial Roundup: Mississippi
Recent editorials from Mississippi newspapers: ___ April 11 The Dispatch on criminal church scandals: “It doesn’t matter what you do as long as you look good doing it.” A fruitless...
Vicksburg port options: Move to new site or expand in place
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Engineers in Mississippi are evaluating a potential new site for the Port of Vicksburg, a few miles south of the current location. Elected officials from Vicksburg and Warren County met Wednesday to discuss whether to expand near the current port...
A love of small spaces: Vicksburg native builds tiny house
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Ever since he was a little boy, David Osburn has had big plans for a tiny house. When he was 12, the Vicksburg native sketched out his first plan to turn an old school bus into a small home. By age 13 or 14 he was refining the blueprints and...
Editorial Roundup: Mississippi
Recent editorials from Mississippi newspapers: ___ April 6 The Vicksburg Post on voter turnout: We’ve written this editorial before so it would be far too easy to simply cut, paste and change a few numbers....
Family volunteers together at Mississippi vaccination event
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — The Walters family is no stranger to helping those in — and outside — their community. During summers they have worked with Service Over Self, the one-week-long youth-led mission project, and both Abigail Walters Harper and her brother Evan...
Editorial Roundup: Mississippi
Recent editorials from Mississippi newspapers: ___ March 26 The Vicksburg Post on the coronavirus pandemic: In an editorial in mid-May, we questioned and criticized the Warren County Board of Supervisors’...
Mississippi man to be sentenced on 2 murder convictions
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man is set for sentencing Monday in the shooting deaths of a father and son. Jurors on March 19 convicted Steven Lewis, 37, of first-degree murder in the death of 47-year-old Alex Jennings Sr. and second-degree murder in the death...
Editorial Roundup: Mississippi
Recent editorials from Mississippi newspapers: ___ March 23 The Greenwood Commonwealth on student debt forgiveness and for-profit schools: Much of the attention about student debt during last year’s...
