Editor's Notebook

Government is too involved in our everyday lives. That’s the popular mantra for this political season.
Yet, every time we turn around, there is another bill that finds a way to get involved in our everyday lives.
This week, it’s a bill that would educate youth sports leaders and participants about concussions and would make [...]

Seriously?
Greg Davis wants to pin blame on his alderman for him being an idiot?
The only thing the Southaven Board of Aldermen should have done differently in the last several months is for one of them to have taken their mayor out behind the woodshed for a lesson in humility and humanity.
Apparently, Southaven mayor Greg Davis [...]

Labels are a hard thing to get rid of.
In real life, they have that sticky adhesive that is bound to ruin any piece of clothing if gets attached.
In the political and perceptive world, labels are much the same.
During the last election cycle, many Mississippi Democrats were labeled as free spenders for voting on particular tax [...]

In a Sun Herald story this morning, it was reported that Carl the Downtown Rooster, who roamed Ocean Springs streets since last summer, has been relocated to Vancleave, where he has a pen and the companionship of six hens.
Two women who work at a local grocery store found a home for him with nice pens [...]

Just sitting on your couch and listening, some of Newt Gingrich’s latest ideas might seem to be a little — OK, a lot — off the wall.
Amazingly enough, some of Newt’s ideas might actually be good for Mississippi’s economy in general and the Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, specifically.
In fact, many of Newt’s ideas [...]

Gov. Phil Bryant said a lot of things Tuesday night in his first State of the State address.
He’s for more jobs. …
He’s against obesity. …
And he’s for education and energy. …
But there was one quote that stood out as Bryant proclaimed that he is also for economic development.
“Economic development is the sun in our universe [...]

Allen Pepper had a genuine love of people.
It came across every time you ever saw him.
Tall and slim, with a chiseled faced that seemed to never show the burden of the decisions he made daily as a federal judge, Pepper had a way that eased folks in trying times, delighted them in good times and [...]

Spirit of the Marathon is the best documentary I have ever seen, and I have seen it so many times I can’t count. Plus, I have listened to all or part of it on every run of more than an hour for more than 18 months. So, to learn in the last couple of days [...]

What great timing.
According to news outlets across the globe, the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin may have finally been proven.
A new study by Italian scientists may not be definitive on its origins, but it does refute the popular notion that it was faked during the Middle Ages.
According to ABC. experts at Italy’s National Agency [...]

Have you ever noticed that just about every neighborhood has a “trash dog”?
You know, the dog that wanders through every few days and picks out one house to hit, knocking over a trash can and dragging away all the good stuff it can and leaving a giant mess in its wake.
Or maybe it’s just the [...]