Opinion

Lazarus let emotions get best of him

Mike Lazarus, who recently was defeated by Wes Middleton for a second time for the District 1 county ...

Opinion

Where everyone knows your name

Last Saturday night, I was at Andrew’s Tavern in the 300 block of Main Street. It was a ...

Business

Mickey Howley’s Street Talk: Build smarter not farther

As of this writing, the forecast for the next week has high temps all over 100 degrees and ...

Opinion

Natchez still nourishes the ‘foodie’ in us all

Family lore says that I was a picky eater as a child. Spaghetti and meatballs, hot dogs, roast ...

Opinion

OPINION COLUMN: For Adams County Sheriff’s deputies, it’s all in a poorly-paid day’s work

$16.01. That’s the starting hourly wage for a new, inexperienced deputy in the Adams County Sheriff’s Office. $13.23. ...

Opinion

Cleaning out the notebook: From baseball to health care

From deep sea tragedies to nail-biting baseball games, it’s been a doozy of a week. And with summer ...

Business

It’s time to play favorites in the Miss-Lou

Admit it: You play favorites. We all do. Whether it’s that favorite old t-shirt that you just can’t ...

Opinion

A new book brings a lesson on six degrees of separation

We have a running joke in our family that we like to call “six degrees of Natchez.” It ...

Opinion

Time to empty the reporter’s notebook again

Somehow April has passed and May is upon us … is anyone else out there suffering 2023 whiplash? ...

Business

Ah, the smell of moist wood in the summertime!

It is that time of year when love is in the air. I saw it last Sunday night ...

Opinion

Society faces a problem ‘far beyond’ anything we can fix alone

“It’s a culture that’s quick to take offense and ready to resort to violence at the drop of ...

Business

Understanding retail consumption benefits the whole

If the last column bored you with concentric circles, downtown being the epicenter of all three, this one ...

News

Emptying out the reporter’s notebook

Boxes of notebooks are an occupational hazard for a journalist. Moving back to Mississippi from Alabama, I discovered ...

News

From the mayor’s desk: Remembering Dan Dillard

This week, we said goodbye to a great public servant of Natchez, Daniel George Dillard – longtime alderman, ...

Opinion

They are all good dogs

We had to say goodbye to a beloved family member recently. Sport, the ever-happy Springer Spaniel we’d loved ...

Opinion

Seeing the face of God among us

The questions never came with a warning. When my children were little, the questions came, most often, at ...

Z- Main story box

Fresh paint and sweet olive: Renewal is happening!

Renewal is happening in Natchez! Everywhere you look you see it – you can even smell it. A ...

Opinion Columnists

Maybe the ‘winning’ lies in simply being willing to try

Years ago, my late father decided he wanted to get involved in his daughters’ education. Recently relocated to ...

Opinion

Jenkins’ focus good fit for promoting Chamber, Natchez

Lyn Fortenberry Jenkins may not consider herself a morning person, but she’s doing her best to fake it. ...

Opinion

For Liberty and the salute of labor

On Sept. 7, 1942, nearly 20,000 shipyard workers and guests gathered at Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore, Maryland. They ...

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