http://www.starherald.net en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:11:00 +0000 http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_086091152.html http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_086091152.html There are many stories from Mississippi’s civil rights era in which the people breaking the law were the very ones wearing badges after taking oaths to uphold the law. But Ralph Hargrove Sr., a 44-year Jackson Police Department fingerprint expert and identification specialist who retired in 1986, wasn’t one of those rogue lawmen. Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:56:00 +0000 http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_030105622.html http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_030105622.html On a recent Saturday (Jan 19) and Monday (Jan 21), I attended two outstanding events organized by the Martin Luther King, Jr Commemoration Committee. Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:37:00 +0000 http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_353103714.html http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_353103714.html It’s that time of year again, time for old Saint Nick to visit all the good boys and girls. It’s a time I remember well from my childhood.If memory serves me correctly, it was the Christmas of 1984 and I, being a 12-year-old boy, wanted nothing more than an Atari game system for Christmas that year. Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:35:00 +0000 http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_353103634.html http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_353103634.html We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:49:00 +0000 http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_340095225.html http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_340095225.html Here are a few tips for the Holiday season.A burglar or thief shops before Christmas just as we do. However, did you know they shop for easy pickings immediately after Christmas just as many of us do, the difference is that we pay for what we get and they (thieves) just take what we got. Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:17:00 +0000 http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_324111753.html http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_324111753.html Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:04:00 +0000 http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_318110515.html http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_318110515.html I’m sure there were many people in Attala and Choctaw counties who were just as shocked as I was when I learned that an article had been printed in Penthouse magazine on Weir football. Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:31:00 +0000 http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_297113105.html http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_297113105.html As I sit down to write this, my son Matthew is on his way back to Ole Miss for his final couple of months and my wife Janet is on her way back from Arkansas, after visiting her mother and aunt. I reckon this set my mind to wondering and memories I’ve long forgot into motion, in my minds eye. We had like a little bachelor party this weekend as it was just Matthew and myself, of course Jason and my brother Joel had to come up and feast with us last night. Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:12:00 +0000 http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_255091242.html http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_255091242.html The proposed increase in both the collection of city, city school and county school taxes is just plain wrong. It’s that simple. Basically, it’s another tax and the last thing we need is another tax. Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:58:00 +0000 http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_241085849.html http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_241085849.html As I sit down to write this weeks article its pouring down rain outside and I already have a dose of cabin fever. But praise the Lord for it as we sure needed it. My place was gunpowder dry. Any way I’m getting a earlier start on writing this, thanks to the rain as normally I’d be out doing something by now. Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:41:00 +0000 http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_234114240.html http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_234114240.html The season where more gunpowder is burned than all others put together is upon us. Dove season will be open in a couple of weeks. It’s a season where it is usually hotter than a July firecracker and a time of year that is not pleasant to be in a field waiting on a gray bomb to fly by to test your wing shooting skills to the max. Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:51:00 +0000 http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_227115023.html http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_227115023.html As this weeks paper comes out, my wife and I will have been married twenty six years. I must say it has been an adventure. We began in the outdoors, so she can’t say she did not know what she was getting into. Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:32:00 +0000 http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_220103254.html http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_220103254.html Everyone who ever wet a hook ought to have a place he can call his secret hole. I’ve been fortunate over the years to have had several of such places. Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:29:00 +0000 http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_220102936.html http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_220102936.html The Mississippi Department of Education from its lofty perch has taken out the high calorie, sugar-loaded drinks and snacks out of public schools.Snack time now consists of milk, water, juice and granola instead of Cokes, chocolate and honey buns. Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:32:00 +0000 http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_213153342.html http://www.starherald.net/opinion/local_story_213153342.html On this upcoming Tuesday, you, the voters of Attala County will have the opportunity to go to the polls to decide both local and statewide races.And it seems as every year goes past, we get more and more apathetic about elections. As the younger generations become of voting ages, they just don’t seem to care that much about elections, especially on the local level.