Opinion

We must do better for our society

“Our moral compass is no longer pointing true.” That’s what Paul Leake said earlier this week when talking ...

Opinion

Remembering friends at the Mississippi Book Festival

Last week’s Mississippi Book Festival provided an opportunity to reconnect with old and dear friends in celebrating extraordinary ...

Opinion

State Treasurer: The national debt is a growing threat

In a previous column, I outlined the process by which we might amend the U.S. Constitution with a ...

Opinion

No one does fall like Natchez

Football, food, music and more await in the coming months and we can’t wait. After Hallmark Christmas movies ...

Opinion

State may not need all those cellphones

A billion here, a billion there; pretty soon you’re talking about real money. That oft-quoted phrase about government ...

Opinion

Promoting Natchez’s rich cultural heritage

A local man asked me about Visit Natchez and my work as the cultural heritage tourism manager. Specifically, ...

Opinion

Our community has flourished in part because of Co-Lin Natchez

Many of us Co-Lin at the old school building off U.S. 84, where Bob Dearing taught history. Oh, ...

Opinion

Natchez tax abatements – a valuable incentive

A little over a year ago, the City of Natchez broadened an important incentive for growth – our ...

Opinion

Will Southern Airways make a difference here?

To the editor: Reading in The Democrat the exuberant news that Natchez will get a scheduled airline, Southern ...

Opinion

City aldermen story criticized

To the editor: With regards to your article of the North Natchez Youth Center, it’s funny you didn’t ...

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Visit Your Community College on August 24

On Aug. 24, 1972, college students climbed into their Volkswagen Beetles, Pontiacs, Datsuns or if they were cool, ...

Looking Back photos

Looking back

William E. “Bill” Stewart snapped this photograph in the 1960s as he stood on Main St. and looked ...

Opinion

GUEST EDITORIAL: Parole board makes job harder

On a less positive note about Mississippi’s prison trends comes this finding by the Mississippi Center for Investigative ...

Opinion

Ham and eggs? Massachusetts, California engage in self-imposed food price inflation

By SID SALTER/Syndicated columnist The next time you travel to Boston, it might be wise on several fronts ...

Opinion

Rosco on the Radio: ‘The Miss-Lou region lost a giant’

Adams County Board of Supervisors President Wes Middleton opened the group’s meeting Monday morning with a moment of ...

Opinion

Ask me about the Symphony

It’s about tourism and economic development. It’s about investment in Natchez. It’s about JOBS… Something exciting is happening ...

Obituaries

Preservation Commission is doing its job

We need to cut the city’s Preservation Commission some slack. The Preservation Commission is being criticized for taking ...

Opinion

Judicial system unfair to victims and their families

To the editor: I, as a parent, taxpayer, voter and a citizen of Natchez, have never in my ...

Opinion

Sheriff: Reasons why dispatch should be its own entity

This is certainly not the letter that I wanted to be writing today but at this point, I ...

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Thank you, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker

During my recent State of the City address, a major focus of my message was to emphasize that ...

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