From the Quill
Clarion-Ledger Perspective Editor Sid Salter reflects on the 1997 tobacco settlement and a joint appearance of attorney Dickie Scruggs, then-Attorney General Mike Moore and then-lobbyist Haley Barbour at Ole Miss: “(Former Gov. Kirk) Fordice died. Barbour’s now governor. Moore’s defending Scruggs’ son, Zach, on the same charges to which his father pleaded guilty - and the same questions linger today that lingered in 1997 at the Ole Miss Law School about Mississippi’s tobacco litigation…”
Gale Denley’s column from Bruce has taken the leap on to the WWW, to the satisfaction of longtime readers.
Northside Sun publisher Wyatt Emmerich ponders the nature of fate, faith and inevitability: Deep down, we know this. We fear that phone call in the middle of the night. It is one of two things: a wrong number from a drunk or tragedy. The phone rings. Our heart skips a beat. Drunk or tragedy. Which will it be?