Stan Tiner, the editor of The Sun Herald, and Joshua Norman, a reporter who graduated from NYU in 2000, spoke at the Kimmel Center Tuesday about writing during Katrina and and her aftermath.
Changes in Tunica since the arrival of gambling a decade-and-a-half, once dubbed the poorest town in America, have not been as dramatic as other communities across the county, said Brooks Taylor, editor and publisher of the Tunica Times, but an influx of casinos there has had an overall positive impact.
Taylor was recently interviewed by a Delco Times reporter in Delaware County, PA, about Tunica and what has happened there since the casinos opened. A rural town, Tunica had an unemployment rate on par with Joliet, PA when casinos arrived, though it hasn’t seen the kind of influx of people Joliet has since.
Ramblings and rumblings from Mississippi newspapers…
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in Tupelo: Oxford’s movement toward a smoking ban in indoor spaces open to the public needs the support of health advocates, all non-smokers who value their health, and the University of Mississippi and Baptist Memorial Hospital/Oxford — the two most significant economic forces in Oxford and Lafayette County…
Larry Liddell, former managing editor of the Clarksdale Press Register, on why this season’s Ole Miss Rebels are the worst incarnation in the team’s history…
Birney Imes, editor of the Commercial Dispatch in Columbus, on efforts to improve public schools in his city and why they won’t move forward unless citizens “honestly and faily examine every option“…
Bill Jacobs, editor of the Brookhaven Daily Leader, recalls his community’s efforts to land a Wal-Mart Distribution Center and 600 jobs nearly 20 years ago…
The days of sitting in a classroom for history classes has long been forgotten by many of the Active Adults from First Baptist Church of Kosciusko who made a recent trip to Port Gibson. The trip by bus, down the Natchez Trace Parkway, turned into a day-long history class.
The group made a bus ride along the street with tours of the First Presbyterian and St. Joseph’s Catholic Churches. Joining the group was Emma Crisler, editor-publisher of The Reveille, Port Gibson and Claiborne County’s newspaper. She shared her knowledge of the town’s history.
Sportswriter Mark Beason, the new editor of Mississippi Outdoors, a bi-monthly magazine published by the state Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, was the guest speaker at his hometown Rotary Club in Philadelphia. Prior to joining the magazine, Beason was a correspondent at the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in Tupelo and sports editor for the Daily Times Leader in West Point.
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