Vicksburg Post executive editor Charlie Mitchell on the state of the state’s public universities…”To hear Tom Meredith tell it - and he does it well - Mississippi’s eight public universities are jet engines idling on the runway of life in this state, merely in need of a tank of fuel to take off and soar…”
All DeSoto Tribune editor Larry Hudson learned about a successful marriage he learned in the kitchen… “I’m continually amazed at the little things you have to do that make relationships work. Over the years, I’ve been told that you shouldn’t marry someone you can live with, you should marry someone you can’t live without. That’s good advice. But I’ve also learned that it’s not just hearts and flowers and romance that make a good marriage.”
Mark Thornton, editor of The Star-Herald, on why his 2-year-old’s troubles with the law had to be reported…”The quickest way for a community newspaper to lose credibility is to endorse Hillary Clinton for president. The second quickest way for a community newspaper to lose credibility is to play favorites when it comes to reporting. We can’t afford to have a good ol’ boy system in which Joe Sixpack’s DUI is published in the paper but Jim Businessowner’s isn’t.”
Birney Imes, editor of The Commercial Dispatch, on everyone feeling the Christmas spirit in Columbus…”A curious thing…few people I spoke with Friday night expressed a Christmas wish for things, rather they want simply to be with family or have continued health for themselves and loved ones.”
Clarion-Ledger Perspective editor Sid Salter blogs on the quagmire that has become U.S. 51 in Madison County, a daily chief irritant of this blog’s editor…”Of course, MDOT might be able to fix Hwy. 51 faster if they weren’t putting so much money into publishing “The People of MDOT” (in house agency magazine), recording radio commercials so Butch Brown can personally wish us all a nice Christmas, and keeping the Taj Mahal up to snuff over on West Street.”
