From the Quill
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…