There has got to be a better way to build streets and highways in Mississippi, and maybe a Mississippi Transportation Infrastructure Bank is part of it.
When I started covering the White House, more than 50 years ago, I believed that the smarter a president was, the better he would be. That was wrong.
Think of your turkey as a blank canvas. That's kind of what it is, you know.
Thanksgiving is a most wonderful holiday time. Yes, we are thankful for the usual - loving family, friends, visits, feasts. I think of a few other things, too, in great thankfulness.
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Home Improvement: Window King |
| Investment services: Fred B. Holmes & Associates |
Audiology: Derek Erickson, M.S. CCC-A |
| OB/GYN: Dr. Jones |
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The autumn migration of shorebirds is at its height. This morning flights of ruddy turnstones have arrived along the stretch of beach that we walk daily. It is difficult to believe that these pretty, little birds have flown here from their summer nesting grounds in Arctic tundra. We admire their orange legs, the calico pattern of their plumage and their handsome head markings. Flying away at the approach of humans, the birds sound a long, rattling cry.
Southern Airways, then the prime air carrier for Gulfport Municipal Airport (three years before the airport joined Biloxi and Harrison County to become regional) announced it was having a $2 million problem. "Cuba won't give us our money to cover the losses suffered in 1972" when a skyjacker took off with its passenger jet and landed it near Havana. The airline especially needed the money at that time because it was installing sterile concourses at all its airports, including Gulfport, to detect...
