Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Do we need to have people do everything for us?

Once you get a taste of “first-class” anything else is unacceptable. Just ask the good folks living in ...

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Here’s to an exciting, bright new year

As a child, the end of the year was daunting. Three hundred, sixty-five days once seemed an eternity.

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Natchez blessed with many gifts

All of the Christmas preparation ends today: Christmas Eve. The Christmas season usually causes us all to pause ...

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Community needs to shape interstate discussions

An interstate through Natchez? The concept must seem as novel to most of us as the notion to ...

Opinion

To ‘feel like a motherless child’

This is not the column I had planned for today. But then, my plan had not taken account ...

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Different reactions to abuse stories curious

News tends to come by either eyedropper or fire hose. Last week was certainly on the fire hose ...

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

One-year-old son offers life lessons

Saying time flies is a cliché, but such things become overused phrases and earn that name because they ...

Opinion

Time to tell the truth, the whole truth

For a century and more Neo-Confederates have woven webs of deception about the origins of the Confederate States ...

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Is state agency undermining economic development?

Joe Max Higgins has never been accused of being a wallflower.

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

What are we thankful for this holiday?

For what or whom are you most thankful? The question is often asked this time of year as ...

Opinion

Are we ignoring dead canary’s song?

Once, coal miners took canaries with them into their underground shafts. The small birds, being much more vulnerable ...

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Fortunato was one of NFL’s greatest players

The National Football League lost one of its greatest linebackers last week, and sadly many modern sports fans ...

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Who is best suited to be next justice court judge?

Five people are vying to be the next Adams County Justice Court Judge for the Southern district. The ...

Opinion

Becoming Abraham Lincoln, Part II

Abraham Lincoln, as we discussed two weeks ago, began his adult life as a racist, as did most ...

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

We must teach tolerance, compromise to our children

Of late, I’ve begun to realize the world around us is not terribly different in temperament than our ...

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Loudest voices do not need to control future

Natchez lives and dies, unfortunately, by the powerful voices of the mighty few.

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Population decline affects us all

Anyone who has lived in Natchez and Adams County for any length of time can quickly point to ...

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

We need less vilification, more of a willingness to come together

As the parent of two small children the last two weeks has me confounded. Fortunately, with one age ...

Opinion

The tragic history of Chicken

In the game of “chicken,” two individuals, maybe armed with Buicks, hurtle toward each other at breakneck speed. ...

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Bryant still needs to take stance on flag

This morning for the sake of accuracy, I must swallow a little crow. That’s OK. As my mother ...

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