Flood maps: From advisory to preliminary
Two years ago we commended the Federal Emergency Management Agency for revising maps of the flood plain in Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties with unprecedented speed following Hurricane Katrina.
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ANYONE.ANYWHERE.ANYTIME. But not Bower ... at USM ... in 2008
As the University of Southern Mississippi football coach, Jeff Bower gave the Golden Eagles a swagger. The stadium was christened The Rock. Billboards boasted: Anyone. Anywhere. Anytime.
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Trent Lott walks away a winner
Trent Lott is going to resign his seat in the United States Senate. Well, why not?
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More than 50 billionaires have received handouts from a program created to help struggling small farmers
When the agriculture lobby tries to justify its hugely expensive and inefficient system of taxpayer-paid subsidies and price supports, it invokes the "small family farm," conjuring up Grant Wood's famed "American Gothic" painting of a farm couple.
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Pass Christian scores a point on annexation
Henderson Point is the last remaining unincorporated area along Beach Boulevard in Harrison County.
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Life, freedom and nature's bounty; America has much to be thankful for
Americans have been observing Thanksgiving since Gov. William Bradford of Plymouth Colony issued a proclamation of thanks-giving in the autumn of 1621.
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A good example in Harrison County is not lost on Jackson County
David LaRosa and Joe Tucker could hardly have become tax collectors under more different circumstances.
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Congratulations to Gulf Coast for its winning ways
What is now Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College started playing intercollegiate football in 1926. The very next year, Gulf Coast won the state junior college championship.
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Inspections and introspection
If you're like a lot of Americans, you think that a yearly physical is a good idea even if you dread it. You make the appointment. You show up, chat with the doctor, submit to poking, prodding and a battery of tests. You may even grudgingly climb on the scale. You feel better afterward, just knowing that someone has checked under the hood.
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Cochran's desire to stay in Senate is welcome news for Mississippi
Considering the accolades that greeted Thad Cochran's announcement that he will seek a sixth term in the Senate, you would think he could be re-elected by acclamation.
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One smoke-free day might last forever
If you're a smoker, and you haven't had your first drag of the day, can you wait a little longer? Maybe an hour? Then, maybe another?
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MDOT's delay will almost certainly be deadly
Just since Hurricane Katrina, three people have been killed at the intersection of U.S. 49 and Mississippi 67 in north Harrison County.
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Lynn Meadows and Ohr-O'Keefe lift spirits along the shoreline
Last week, construction seriously resumed at the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum in Biloxi. This week, ground was broken on an impressive expansion of the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center complex in Gulfport.
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Honor and help for veterans on Veterans Day
On Veterans Day it's appropriate to reflect that while we deservedly honor our veterans, we fall a little short for those veterans whose journey back into civilian life is a rocky one.
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AN APPRECIATION
On May 12, 1962, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur spoke to the Corps of Cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Part of what he said is reprinted below in observance of Veterans Day.
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Yet another life is lost at 49 and 67
Would a traffic signal at the intersection of U.S. 49 and Mississippi 67 have saved the life of John Goodrich, 54, of Saucier, who was killed in a traffic accident there on Thursday?
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The ever-changing ebb and flow of politics
To appreciate where we are politically, we need to remember where we have been.
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Paradise is still in peril along the Pascagoula
Four years ago this month, the Sun Herald published a three-part series titled “Paradise in Peril: Preserving the Pascagoula.”
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South Mississippi needs to flex its muscles at the polls today
South Mississippians need to flock to the polls today to show that Hurricane Katrina did not rob this region of its political influence.
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Choctaws should play by the same rules as others on the Coast
Gov. Haley Barbour is correct to oppose an effort by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians to land a casino on the Gulf Coast that would have an unfair competitive advantage over all of the existing gaming establishments.
