Opinion
Fielder’s Choice
By Barry Burleson Great news from Toyota Bill Renick made an educated guess a few weeks back in his talk to the Holly Springs Rotary Club. He
said he believed an announcement would come in the next few months from
Toyota concerning the future of the Blue Springs site. Full Story
Close to Nowhere
By Linda Jones
Can we all say ‘hot enough?’
• Sue Watson, our intrepid news reporter, heard on the radio
Tuesday that the hottest temperature ever recorded was on September 13,
1922 — in El Azizia (also known as Al ’Aziziyah), Libya — the mercury
hit 136. OK, so it’s near the Sahara Desert, so we know it’s really hot
there. And, according to Wikipedia, there are no weather stations
actually in the desert, so it’s probably hotter there. Full Story
Wyatt’s World
By Wyatt Emmerich ‘General welfare’ doesn’t mean unlimited power I wrote recently about our nation’s long-running debate over where governmental power resides - at the state or national level. Our
federal Constitution specifically “enumerates” what powers belong to
the federal government - health care is not one of them. Full Story
Senator Roger Wicker makes weekly Republican address to the nation regarding oil spill response “Hello,
I am Senator Roger Wicker from Mississippi. As we enter the third
month of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, we continue to learn more and
more disturbing information about gross negligence on the part of BP --
and about some proposals from the Obama Administration that will do
more harm than good. Full story
Letters To The Editor Wall Street reform:
Dear Editor, Something
happened on the way to Wall Street reform. The federal legislation now
in the final stages of Congressional approval was supposed to address
the causes of the recent financial crisis and reorganize the way Wall
Street does business to protect taxpayers from a future crisis. While
the legislation does address some important concerns, it imposes
tremendous new burdens and restrictions on traditional banks like mine
that had nothing to do with causing the crisis in the first place. Full Story
The South Reporter office will be closed Friday, July 2, for the Independence Day holiday. Deadlines will remain the same!
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