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Reader speaks out against Boy Scouts

June 14, 2013

To the Editor of the Starkville Daily News:

No group can expect universal acceptance

June 14, 2013

If I have a soapbox, it's simply this: tolerance and acceptance are not the same thing.
Conversely, that also means the singular act of failing to accept something isn't the same as intolerance.

Intolerance breeds irrational claims

June 13, 2013

By Mary Garrison

It's a widely-known fact that of all the things I can't stand, intolerance lingers somewhere close to the top of the list.

Yes, I'm aware of the irony.

Do not think faster is always better

June 11, 2013

By Zack Plair

One of the more clever marketing schemes going these days is AT&T's ad campaign with the man in the classroom among a handful of elementary-aged children.

Chronicles of a serial plant killer

June 7, 2013

By Mary Garrison

I am a serial murderer.

At least, in the plant world. And maybe the fish world. And possibly the duck world, too, but that one was an accident and I was only 4 years old, so it doesn’t count.

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Letter to the Editor

June 6, 2013

By Hal M. Polk, Starkville

Dear Editor:

Included is an observation related to the recent Mayoral election here in Starkville.

An open letter to Gov. Phil Bryant

June 6, 2013

By Mary Lea Nations

Dear Governor,

Overcoming queen of microwave cuisine moniker

June 5, 2013

By Mary Garrison

Those who know me well know I have no culinary prowess of which to speak. That isn't to say I'm completely useless in the kitchen. I have a handful of things that I'm really good at actually. It's just that these things are limited.

Being ‘old soul' isn't always so bad

June 4, 2013

By Zack Plair

I've had to come to terms over the years with the fact that I'm what you would call "an old soul."

I don't own a GPS navigator and probably never will. I'd rather look at a map. And when I need to know a landline phone number, I still use the phonebook.

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Let us take a Memorial Day break

May 31, 2013

By Marty Wiseman

The memories of April 21, 2008 when we went to the Boston Marathon still lingered in our hearts and souls on April 15...
Emily Jones Deluded Diva My neighbor, (I'll call her Brenda for the sake of anonymity), is one of the best things that...
By RUTH MORGAN For Starkville Daily News General Wiley Norris Nash was one of Mississippi as well as Starkville’s most...
Creation is imagination, and being a visual artist I'm attempting to be creative, inventive, and imaginative. To...
Monday was a really bad day.  Huey P, my oversized HP laptop computer, just up and died. He had no symptoms indicating...

 

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