Opinion

The One Percent slaveholders

For 49 of the first 72 years of our constitutional system, 1789-1861, the President was a Southern slaveholder. ...

Opinion

Help those who help least among us

How a community deals with the least among us tells a lot about that community.

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Start piling on positive attitude for community

Have you noticed how piling onto another’s misfortune has become almost an American pastime?

Ben Hillyer

Who is right person to pilot commission?

Even though I love my neighbor, I am not sure I would want her to help run the ...

Opinion

Some things are worth expenditure

The results of a couple of recent polls on The Natchez Democrat website are perplexing to me.

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Downtown Natchez needs some stone soup

Downtown Natchez could use another good pot of stone soup, and it appears one is being cooked up, ...

Opinion

A tale of two presidents of warring states

In June 1808, Samuel and Jane Davis’ son Jefferson was born near Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Opinion

Call out falsehoods posing as news

There, in my Facebook feed was a great example of a growing problem that can take a hold ...

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Does bridge predicament offer opportunity?

Scarred by cancer and slowed by strokes, the fire in Butch Brown’s belly still burns for Natchez, particularly ...

Opinion

How I’m keeping cool this summer

Summer is here! Well, not officially. Technically the first day of summer is not until June 21.

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Farmers Market is a great outing

Saturday morning, the Downtown Natchez Farmers Market opened for its summer run, but if you think the market ...

Ben Hillyer

Bridge lights: Once stimulus, now just pork

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act from the Obama Administration was meant to create jobs and stimulate the ...

Opinion

Natchez was Abu Dhabi of its day

“Without slaves there could be no planters,” observed Joseph Holt Ingraham of Natchez in 1835. “Without planters there ...

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Time to pause, remember our veterans

Tomorrow our nation pauses to honor our nation’s fallen heroes, and we have a bunch of them, approximately ...

Opinion

We already knew Natchez was best

Friday afternoon USA Today announced Natchez made the list of its Top 10 Best Historic Small Towns.

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

AAA’s will turn Natchez around

A collective sense of dread looms about the direction in which the Natchez area is headed.

Opinion

Mississippi was a slave-majority state

In Mississippi, in the year of the Confederacy’s founding, 55 percent of its people lived in bondage.

Opinion

Bishop Gunn helps Natchez ‘Shine on’

Bishop Gunn has certainly done well for themselves.

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Today is unique compared to other holidays

If mere mortals ever deserved a day set aside in their honor, mothers are certainly amongst the most ...

Ben Hillyer

Rational discussion would help

If you knew chemical pathogens were being dispersed into your town on a daily basis, what would you ...

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