Letters
Making Roads Safer
Imagine driving behind someone who is swerving from side to side. For years, we would have probably assumed that driver was drinking and driving.
Saggy Pants and JSU
While I understand the cartoon was intended to poke fun at Stokes' attempt to better our region's youth, it took an unfair swipe at Jackson State University students.
To The Reverend Jim Futral
To The Reverend Jim Futral, Executive Director, Mississippi Baptist Convention
[Letters] Congress, Support Mississippi Students
Under the budget approved by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Phil Bryant, Mississippi's Institutions of Higher Learning will receive $2,400 less per student for fiscal year 2013 than they ...
[Letters] Circus Abuses Animals
In response to the article, "Under the Big Top" in (Vol. 10, Issue 40) June 13-19: The article was written with a magical and nostalgic feeling. But the reality of ...
Vol. 10, No. 38
Make Charter Improvements Now
In a recent column, ("Why Charter Schools Died," Vol. 10, Issue 34, May 2-8, 2012) state Rep. Cecil Brown laid out the many flaws with the charter-school bill proposed this ...
Brown Rings Hollow
Vice President for Policy, Mississippi Center for Public Policy, Jackson
Rep. Cecil Brown's explanation as to why he opposed charter-school legislation this session ("Why Charter Schools Died," Vol. 10, Issue 34, May 2-8, 2012) rings hollow given that he was ...
Ashamed
As a white Mississippian, I feel ashamed of the Voter ID bill that just passed. Sen. John Henderson is right: no matter how it's dressed up, it's still Jim Crow. ...
Support for Charter Schools
I am a single parent of three school-age children, and I, like so many parents in DeSoto County support the Mississippi Charter School bill.
Vol. 10, No. 20
My name is Howard Klerk, and I am the president of the National Board of Trustees of The National Organization of Parents of Murdered Children Inc. based in Cincinnati, Ohio. ...
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See the latest 100Knowledge06 Everybody has a 'story' about the 'so-called' businesses that are going to leave Jackson or not come here. You guys ...
May 22, 12:43 a.m. on Open Letter to Jacksonians from Dorothy Triplett
darryl A thousand apologies. I should have said, "unfettered government."
May 21, 11:09 p.m. on Open Letter to Jacksonians from Dorothy Triplett
darryl Please believe me when I say that Capitolinsider and myself are not whining. And to think that misery is what ...
May 21, 11:01 p.m. on Open Letter to Jacksonians from Dorothy Triplett
Capitolinsider No, my issues are of governance and an upwardly mobile populous. While I do not like the man due to ...
May 21, 10:50 p.m. on Open Letter to Jacksonians from Dorothy Triplett
darryl Well, you do apparently. And, thank you, I will. From my vantage point outside the Jack-Kush limits, I will greedily ...
May 21, 10:38 p.m. on Open Letter to Jacksonians from Dorothy Triplett
Open Letter to Jacksonians from Dorothy Triplett
By Donna Ladd