From the Quill
The Daily Journal editorial board on the pomp and circumstance over a certain automaker…”Toyota officially and ceremoniously broke ground Wednesday for its $1.3 billion Highlander SUV assembly plant near Blue Springs, and in the process gave an unstinting, ringing endorsement to the regional development process leading to the giant automaker’s choosing Mississippi over two dozen other states.”
Robert Lee Long of the DeSoto Times Today on the tobacco issue…“Somewhere in Washington D.C. at a high-powered law firm, lobbyists, lawyers and tobacco company executives are lighting up cigars in celebration of the demise of a Partnership For A Healthy Mississippi. Ditto for jubilation over the state’s failure to pass out a cigarette tax hike this year.”
Clarion-Ledger Perspective editor Sid Salter has a couple of worthy reads from the past week, including this verbose correction to a series of errors in the April 15 edition of the C-L. Also, he puts in the VA Tech massacre in context with past tragedies and current fascination with the unimportant.