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MARTY RUSSELL: A day without water at least needs warning
On Monday when I spent an entire day without water at my house.
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EDITORIAL: Cautious optimism
Mississippi needs to move ahead with Toyota links.
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BOBBY HARRISON: Justification for fewer school days indicts some in the system
To advocate shortening the school year because kids are not learning anyway seems to be an indictment of the system – or at least some in the system.
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EMILY LE COZ: The path of the truth seeker is lonely and dark
My friend recently chose to follow her heart; it led her into uncharted territory.
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EDITORIAL: Neighborhood life
Tupelo’s building blocks are the places people live. The quality of life in any city begins with neighborhoods. They are the building blocks for
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Letters to the Editor
Letters from the NEMS Daily Journal newspaper.
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EDITORIAL: South Gloster
Seize obvious opportunity along a major traffic artery.
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LLOYD GRAY: Students need to be in school more, not less
Allowing five fewer days in school simply isn’t appropriate when Mississippi students and their teachers are struggling now.
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JUANITA GAMBRELL FLOYD: Relentlessly seek well-being of loved ones
by Juanita Gambrell Floyd
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On Tuesday, Feb. 2, I received a phone call from my sister, Barbara, frantically stating, “Mama has fallen. Valerie is taking her to the hospital!”
TIM WILDMON: Sometimes, the best defense is a good pre-emptive punch
by Tim Wildmon
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Understand father comes from early lessons.
M. SCOTT MORRIS: One of these days, I'll walk the red carpet
by M. Scott Morris/NEMS Daily Journal
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As you get older, the list of things that you're never going to do gets longer.
RHETA GRIMSLEY JOHNSON: Daddy, in black tie, was the original rock-star butcher
by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
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Daddy was a butcher. He went on to do other things in the grocery business, but during my early, most formative years, he cut meat.
EDITORIAL: Depressed for hope
by NEMS Daily Journal
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Nobody escapes the lows of a life full of successes.
EDITORIAL: Compromise OK’d
by NEMS Daily Journal
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The Legislature’s quick passage on Wednesday of $82 million in restored funding for public education, corrections, community colleges and mental health indicates public opinion overrode Gov. Haley ...
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Cancelled flights are seen on the departure board at Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos during a strike in Spata on Thursday, March 11, 2010. Greek public transport was halted, flights grounded and state hospitals left with emergency staff only on Thursday as workers held yet another general strike to protest painful spending cuts. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)AP - Riot police fired tear gas to disperse protesters throwing rocks and firebombs outside Parliament as more than 10,000 people marched through central Athens Thursday during a nationwide general strike against the government's harsh new austerity measures.


Thu Mar 11 05:43:01 -0600 2010

This handout picture released by the Israeli Government Press Office in February 2010 shows an undated ID photo of British journalist Paul Martin. The Islamist Hamas movement ruling Gaza has released the reporter, the only foreigner to be arrested by the group since it seized power in 2007.(AFP/GPO/File)AP - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says "good faith negotiations" can recognize Israeli security needs and the Palestinian goal for a viable state.


Thu Mar 11 05:35:22 -0600 2010

FILE- This file photo made available by Dr Laura Martin, daughter of Paul Martin, on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010 shows British journalist Paul Martin in Cape Town, South Africa in December 2006. A Gaza lawyer says he expects British free-lance journalist Paul Martin to be released from Hamas custody on Thursday, March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Dr Laura Martin, File)AP - A British journalist has been released from Hamas custody after a month's detention and is on his way out of the Gaza Strip.


Thu Mar 11 05:09:33 -0600 2010

An HSBC branch in central London. The chief executives of major UK banks Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered all decided to renounce their bonus entitlements for 2009 amid public outrage over excessive bankers' pay.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AP - Information on 15,000 HSBC customers with Swiss accounts has been stolen, the British bank said Thursday, potentially exposing foreign clients to prosecution by tax authorities in their home countries.


Thu Mar 11 05:52:40 -0600 2010