Letters to the Editor
Post overlooks Coast
Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Lives were lost. Families were torn apart. To those of us that lived there, the world would never be the same. Not a day went ...
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Turned off by 1490 Am
I surely hope that plans include a return of Live at the Klondyke to the air. As a regular listener, I have really missed the program. I have turned the radio on a couple times, but it doesn’t eve...
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Police out in force to crack down on DUIs
As long as I have been a law enforcement officer, I’ve never gotten used to the sorrow I feel when I’m called to the scene of a crash where a young person has died due to impaired driving. Yet thi...
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Writer wrong in characterization of public schools
I question Mr. Hollowell as to how he arrived at his assessment of the Vicksburg Warren School District. I have taught in the district for 25 years. If I had felt my life was in jeopardy on any da...
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Rumors and innuendo
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I was shocked to read how R.G. Hollowell is ready to pass judgment on our schools simply from what he has heard. Having had one child graduate from St. Aloysius and another graduating from Vicksbur...
Quiet no more
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I sat by very quietly, as has everyone else, and let our newly elected president have free reign at changing the country that our forefathers built with blood and tears. I am highly upset over the...
Social Security didn’t cause debt, must not be raided
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Friday was the 75th anniversary of the Social Security program. Lately, we’ve heard some politicians in Washington talking about making changes to Social Security, such as cutting the benefits we’v...
U.S. stands alone
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Here is a list of all of the developed nations of the world who still offer birthright citizenship to babies born to tourists and illegal immigrants: The United States. That’s right, every other m...
Schools in poor shape
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Our schools are in pitiful condition. According to recent information, they are within about 2 points of being taken over by the state. Also, records indicate Warren County spends almost twice the ...
Buy better buses
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I am concerned with the age of some of the school buses in our district. Most parents don’t know what the numbers on the buses mean. The first two numbers are the year model. If a bus has a number...
National News

President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the economy, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, at the Cuyahoga Community College West Campus in Parma, Ohio.  (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Politically weakened but refusing to bend, President Barack Obama insisted Wednesday that Bush-era tax cuts be cut off for the wealthiest Americans, joining battle with Republicans — and some fellow Democrats — just two months before bruising midterm elections.


Wed Sep 08 17:58:08 -0500 2010

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - The top two national security advisers in President Barack Obama's Cabinet on Wednesday denounced plans by a small church in Florida to burn the Muslim holy book to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying it would inflame tensions and put Americans abroad at risk.


Wed Sep 08 18:18:25 -0500 2010

A British Petroleum (BP) logo is seen  at a petrol station in south London April 27, 2010. BP deflected much of the blame for a rig blast that led to the United States' worst-ever oil spill, releasing an internal report on Wednesday which said that drilling contractor Transocean had missed danger signs. REUTERS/Toby Melville/FilesAP - BP took some of the blame for the Gulf oil disaster in an internal report issued Wednesday, acknowledging among other things that it misinterpreted a key pressure test of the well. But in a possible preview of its legal strategy, it also pointed the finger at its partners on the doomed rig.


Wed Sep 08 15:35:16 -0500 2010

President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the economy, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, at the Cuyahoga Community College West Campus in Parma, Ohio.  (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Politically weakened but refusing to bend, President Barack Obama insisted Wednesday that Bush-era tax cuts be cut off for the wealthiest Americans, joining battle with Republicans — and some fellow Democrats — just two months before bruising midterm elections.


Wed Sep 08 17:58:08 -0500 2010

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - The top two national security advisers in President Barack Obama's Cabinet on Wednesday denounced plans by a small church in Florida to burn the Muslim holy book to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying it would inflame tensions and put Americans abroad at risk.


Wed Sep 08 18:18:25 -0500 2010

A British Petroleum (BP) logo is seen  at a petrol station in south London April 27, 2010. BP deflected much of the blame for a rig blast that led to the United States' worst-ever oil spill, releasing an internal report on Wednesday which said that drilling contractor Transocean had missed danger signs. REUTERS/Toby Melville/FilesAP - BP took some of the blame for the Gulf oil disaster in an internal report issued Wednesday, acknowledging among other things that it misinterpreted a key pressure test of the well. But in a possible preview of its legal strategy, it also pointed the finger at its partners on the doomed rig.


Wed Sep 08 15:35:16 -0500 2010