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Send cheer around the world this year

Sears doesn’t bother sending its annual Christmas wish book to most of the world.

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Newspaper readers are smarter, sexier

Hey you! Yes, you, Mr. or Ms. Reader. In case you were wondering this Sunday morning, you look ...

Ben Hillyer

Give your child chicken pox on a stick

Nothing says love like a chicken pox lolliop. At least that is what a few parents think when ...

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Are initiatives an indicator of future government?

Up until recently, most everyone agreed that people are most influenced, energized and attracted to other people, not ...

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Party system, dirty ads only hurt our state

Over the last couple of weeks, normally mundane trips to the mailbox became something of a daily adventure.

Ben Hillyer

Maybe I’m worried that he won’t worry

My 2-year old son climbed Mount Everest Thursday morning. Although the pile of boxes in the back of ...

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We’ve got what you need to know

It’s time we were up front with each other. All of you need information to make life run ...

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Don’t edit out the facts this election cycle

Pressure and heat can squeeze normally good people into doing some pretty bad things. That’s particularly true in ...

Ben Hillyer

Mystery overshadows public hearing

Anyone who believes an effective government requires open communication and a vigorous public debate of ideas should be ...

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Can we prove perception wrong?

It only took two meetings for a newly formed group of community members to stumble upon a key ...

Columnist: Kevin Cooper

Where is the respect in government?

What’s happened to our government? Collectively, nearly all levels of government seem to have lost the respect of ...

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Redistricting is a smelly process

At some point during adulthood most of us realize just how interwoven into our lives politics truly are. ...

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 ...

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September leaves, October’s here

Another month is behind us. September was good for fishing, and October will be even better. I would ...

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