From the Quill
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal editor Lloyd Gray recalls the turmoil in Oxford 45 years ago surrounding James Meredith’s enrollment at Ole Miss: “For me personally, it was the beginning of the knowledge of the incredible burden of race that our state had long carried, and would carry for years to come. It was the beginning of an understanding that lifting that burden by changing the social order could take generations, but that we had no choice but to get to work.”
Greenwood Commonwealth editor and publisher Tim Kalich mulls the passing of a good boss and even better friend: “Dave came into my life at a time when my own father was becoming less a part of it. My parents had divorced, and my father soon afterwards relocated to California. My mother had taken it hard, and home at the time wasn’t a very happy place. I found some normalcy inside the cinder-block walls of the restaurant, a half-mile walk from my house.”
The Clarion-Ledger’s Chris Joyner blogs about the fact-finding behind an eye-opening story in the paper concerning crime rates in many Mississippi communities: “The full UCR, released last week, gave stats for smaller cities around the nation, giving us a chance to look at dozens of Mississippi cities. That look found that smaller cities like Laurel and Moss Point were fighting their own war against crime.”
