Columnist: Kevin Cooper

What is it about hot-air balloons?

Thousands of people flocked to Natchez this weekend to stare at hot air. For more than 25 years, ...

Ben Hillyer

Don’t race around taking photos

If you think the skies will be full this weekend just wait till you see the ground. For ...

Ben Hillyer

Make your balloon race perfect

When it’s perfect, it is perfect.

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Have you seen your money go by?

Apathy. It’s a six-letter word with the meaning and consequences of a four-letter word.

Ben Hillyer

Art can expose real Natchez

When Birney Imes’ photographs of juke joints from the Mississippi Delta were published in 1990, it introduced, to ...

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Young folks today … who understands?

The answers to two important questions may just tell me all I need to know about you.

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Some things are impossible to understand

Mother nature nailed it Saturday morning. Right on cue as the calendar flipped to a new month, fall ...

Ben Hillyer

Some groups haven’t lost sense of pride

Imagine what the world would look like if we approached our challenges in life like a 2-year-old. Nothing ...

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Colonial solutions may aid today’s woes

Duncan Park neighbors have married the anti-social media that modern technology has birthed and the closeness required in ...

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Readers make daily difference

Don’t you people know how to spell? Why can’t you hire a good proofreader?

Ben Hillyer

Are we grading the right tests?

When it comes to education, how should the community measure success? In a day and age when the ...

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School answer will be draped in stick-to-itiveness

Tension had a seat at the table Monday night; it seemed nearly every invited guest had brought it ...

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Dogs can get over their differences

Perhaps the world would be a little easier to navigate if we all had tails. Only a few ...

Ben Hillyer

Eola brings back memories after 74 years

Epho McEntyre could teach us all a few lessons about the memories we hold onto in life. When ...

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City must address needs at NPD

A nightmare spanning nearly two and a half years, and, hopefully, costing at least a few City of ...

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Where has unity of 9/11 gone?

Ten years after terrorists attacked our nation, has anything good come out of 9/11?

Ben Hillyer

Is media a needed part of anniversary?

How will you spend your Sept. 11? It wasn’t a question I had considered until I read the ...

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Sept. 11 seems so close, yet so far

It seems unfathomable to me that anyone might not remember Sept. 11, 2001.

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Case leaves unanswered questions

Has anyone seen the Mystery Machine lately? If you aren’t familiar with it, you probably didn’t watch many ...

Ben Hillyer

Things are getting rocky in the house

Any day now I am going to post a sign on my front door that says, “Gravel for ...

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