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“We just educate the ones we have.”  — Cleveland School Superintendent Jacquelyn Thigpen

 Those words have a familiar ring to them. I remember Greenwood school officials saying something very similar almost three decades ago when the white flight from this city’s public schools became irreversible.

I have just read your editorial praising your friend, former State Representative Bo Eaton and publishing all his criticisms of the current legislature. While I think there is plenty of disagreement on Rep.

Two weeks into the college football season, Mississippi’s three NCAA FBS teams are pretty much where we thought they would be.

If you don’t appreciate the floral offerings at our local Kroger, you have no soul, for flowers, for seasonal and varied color.

The aftermath of Harvey turned the rich, alluvial soils of the Mississippi delta into a quagmire. Cotton, heavy with unopened bolls, became a tangled mat. Corn that was more than 12 feet tall barely reached your knee in height. Water was halfway up the stalk on soybeans in the swags and tail diches.

Mississippi is a small state where people are closely connected. I got to know Bo Eaton because my wife Ginny “used to rock me to sleep” as his babysitter in Taylorsville, Miss.

I don’t always believe stories from Mississippi Power or from its parent Southern Company about the Kemper Lignite Plant. But when I do, it’s because I’ve been kidnapped, tortured, drugged, and forced to watch endless video loops of CNN and MSNBC and Chris Mathews. (Apologies to The Most Interesting Man in the World and Dos Equis beer.)

Ms. Adria Walker, editor-in-chief of Millsaps College’s student newspaper, says that it is “Time to Let Go of Major Millsaps,” referring to both the man who founded the school and to the school mascot.