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  • Rec Complex Will Benefit Citizens

    The following letter was published today in the Natchez Democrat.


    Like many people in this community, I strongly support the concept of a recreation complex, but I worry whether our elected officials are capable of pulling it off. They haven’t been too impressive lately.

    However, I [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 2:31pm EST

  • I Was a Movie Star Today - Sort Of

    Over the past four years I've been through four hurricanes and made three insurance claims. Each time, I think they're going to cancel me - or jack up my premiums. Nope. Not only that, but my insurance company (Travelers) was wonderful. So wonderful in fact that I decided to write [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 9:26pm EDT

  • An Open Letter to Alderwoman Arceneaux-Mathis

    This letter was sent to Alderwoman Arceneaux-Mathis by Tom Scarborough, but he never received a response. It is published here by permission.

    Dear Ms Arceneaux-Mathis:

    I am writing to you today to express my deep unhappiness with the decision of the mayor and Board of Aldermen to terminate [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2009, 7:57pm EDT

  • Planning Vice Chair Comments

    Ed Godfrey, Vice Chair of the Planning Commission, sent this letter to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen and is reprinted here with permission.

    I was first appointed to the Natchez Board of Adjustment in 1992. After fifteen years on the Board of Adjustment it was merged with [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2009, 12:53pm EDT

  • Journey Stories Exhibit at Historic Foundation

    It would seem to me that the Smithsonian Institute would be quite meticulous in choosing sites for it's traveling exhibits, so the fact that we have this extraordinary SI gem spending a little over a month in Natchez, is extraordinary in itself. Mimi Miller has been working elbow to elbow' [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 12:52pm EDT

  • Why are Health Care Costs So High - and Growing

    The real problem is that our health care delivery system is based on a model that makes no economic sense. The system is broken and needs to be redesigned. The current debate seems to assume this is a fight between the free market and socialism. Although there are people who [...]
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    Posted: September 06, 2009, 4:39pm EDT

  • Health Care Reform or Bankruptcy - Take Your Pick

    Have you heard all the scary things that will happen if health care reform passes? Most of them are untrue or misleading, but that doesn't matter. Unfortunately, big issues like this are never won with facts, reason, or logic. Emotional appeals always win the day - and there is no' [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 9:27pm EDT

  • Insurance Companies - Evil Incarnate

    Let me be up front - I hate health insurance companies. They are the reason I quit practicing psychology. They are also the reason I work at the Library. I was self employed my whole life and always had health insurance. I was diagnosed with cancer in 2001, and my [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 10:32pm EDT

  • Town Hall Meeting Boring and Depressing

    As I left the Town Hall meeting, I asked myself why in the world I went - and encouraged others to do the same. No good answer.

    The first downer was discovering I had no Internet access, since I had planned on live blogging the event. No Internet in [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 5:32am EDT

  • Uncovering the truth

    I was reading a detective novel today by James Lee Burke. His detective lives in New Iberia, Louisiana. The writer seems to have a little trouble with female characters though -- the ones in his book are two-dimensional figures who always want sex. I think life does not imitate art [...]
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    Posted: August 22, 2009, 12:19pm EDT

  • There You Go Again, Sarah Palin


    Sarah Palin, the health care expert, is continuing to share her wisdom. She writes on her Facebook page that the plan making its way through Congress will "inevitably" lead to health care rationing. Palin claims the president wants to enact a rationing system that would
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    Posted: August 21, 2009, 9:54pm EDT

  • Thanks, Sarah Palin

    Thanks to the blatant lies told by Sarah Palin (as outlined in my previous post) America's senior citizens are now going to have one less benefit. Palin's "death panels" lie has been spread around the country and has been picked up by some other Republicans who really should know [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2009, 6:36pm EDT

  • The Government is Taking Over Health Care!

    How many times have you heard that (or some variation) recently? But ask them what they mean and you get some really crazy answers.

    For example, Sarah Palin recently said

    ". . . my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front" [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 7:29pm EDT

  • Do Americans Have a Right to Health Care?

    We are the only country in the industrialized world that doesn't have universal health care - and many developing countries that are far worse off than we are provide it.

    First, let's make clear what universal health care is. It simply means all citizens have health care., and the [...]
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    Posted: August 05, 2009, 5:40pm EDT

  • A chance for a second childhood

    I wrote this post for my blog but thought I'd put it here too because I am so excited about coming to visit Natchez again after 30 years away. Elizabeth

    I grew up in Natchez, Mississippi, and loved it. We moved away when I was 12, and my mother' [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2009, 3:07pm EDT

  • Pickering "Affair" Is Getting Really Creepy

    The Pickering lawsuit was first broken by Ipse Blogit, who has done an outstanding job of following through on what was an initial piece of good luck. As I read more about the case, I became intrigued with "C Street" - the place where Pickering lived while in Congress.
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    Posted: July 21, 2009, 10:56pm EDT

  • Why Congressman Pickering Didn't Become a Senator

    WOW! We have a little soap opera going on.

    Our former Congressman Chip Pickering chose not to run for reelection and was not appointed to Trent Lott's US Senate seat when he resigned - even though it was always assumed that Chip was being groomed for that seat. There' [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2009, 4:22pm EDT

  • Crickets chirping under my bedroom window


    I moved away from Mississippi about 20 years ago, and one of the things I'd always missed were crickets chirping underneath my bedroom window at night. The sound sort of soothed me when I was a kid.

    I came to England to find there were' [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2009, 3:17am EDT

  • Life is a bowl (or two) of cherries


    We've talked about tomatoes on the blog, but not about cherries. This must be rectified.

    Every summer I look forward to the cherry season. I think I could live on these things. They are only in the British supermarkets for a brief time so I' [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2009, 4:04am EDT

  • My husband the oil mogul

    When my grandmother died a few years ago, I inherited about 1/500th of an oil well in Mississippi. My husband, a poor English boy who grew up watching Dallas on television, almost died himself of happiness.

    "Relax," I said. "I didn't really inherit a complete oil well. We aren't" [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2009, 3:08am EDT

  • Public enemies


    The release of the new movie about John Dillinger reminded me of secret family history that I wanted to make sure I told my daughter so the information wasn't lost.

    I had a great-aunt who fell in love with one of the Dillingers -- Frank' [...]
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    Posted: July 03, 2009, 7:17am EDT

  • Gone with the Wind published on this day in 1936


    Gone with the Wind was published on this day in 1936. Every Southern girl of my generation knows the story well. And as we know today, and here I am quoting a source on the Internet: "Many historians regard the book as having a strong ideological" [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2009, 9:43am EDT

  • The Evolution of a Tomato




    (This was an email sent to my kids and a few others and one of those "others" asked me to share on the blog.) 


    Okay.  You may find this trivial ...but, I'm so proud' [...]

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    Posted: June 21, 2009, 8:44am EDT

  • What we would be wearing in 2000 as predicted in 1930s

    Check this video out. It was made in the 1930s to predict what we would be wearing in the year 2000. I would love to wear a glass dress, and wearing a flashlight on your head to search for an honest man seems like a good idea too.
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    Posted: May 27, 2009, 7:13am EDT

  • Gotta Love the Natchez Life

    Today I was reminded why I love the life in Natchez.

    This afternoon I went to a magnificent duo piano concert at First Presbyterian Church, which is impressive in its own right. These two world class pianists were brought to Natchez through connections with a church member. It [...]
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    Posted: May 24, 2009, 9:12pm EDT

  • Demise of an Oak

    I was walking my dog along the Natchez bluff this morning when I noticed an oak tree had recently been cut down. I know the city lost many trees during the recent storm, but I don't think this tree was a victim of that, other' [...]
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    Posted: May 17, 2009, 1:59pm EDT

  • Happy Equal Pay Day!

    Today is Equal Pay Day, and the American Association of University Women (AAUW) has just released a new state by state earnings comparison by gender. And guess what? Mississippi is not last! In fact, we're ranked 40th in earnings ratio between male and female full time workers, age 16' [...]
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    Posted: April 28, 2009, 9:02pm EDT

  • "Must Do" Events for the Weekend & More

    Greetings All... Just taking an opportunity to do a little community broadcast for those of you who aren't traveling to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival this weekend and are wringing your hands over what to do instead. Well, the Symphony of Gardens Tour is this weekend, rain or' [...]
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    Posted: April 28, 2009, 4:02pm EDT

  • English pubs are dying

    I read this article on a US website. It certainly romanticizes English pubs. The ones in London can be really nice but, lemme tell you, the ones near where I live are gross things, full of unhealthy people where fights break out and property is damaged.

    In the old [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 3:55am EDT

  • Jogging our memories

    You know you totally forget about something then someone else brings it up as a meaningful memory then you can suddenly recall a slice of your past life vividly?

    That happened to me when I read about Kevin Sessum's memoir, Mississippi Sissy.

    Here's a summary of the book [...]
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    Posted: March 31, 2009, 8:14am EDT

  • The sky's the soft blue of a work shirt

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    Isn't this a beautiful poem that my friend just sent me:

    Today, the sky's the soft blue of a work shirt washed
    a thousand times. The journey of a thousand miles
    begins with a single step. On the interstate listening
    to NPR, I heard a Hubble scientist
    say, "The" [...]
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    Posted: March 21, 2009, 3:33pm EDT

  • Have you ever put a lampshade on your head when tipsy?

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    In a speech to Irish leaders on St. Patrick's Day, Barack Obama jokingly urged the audience to go easy on the spirits. "Stay as long as you want, try to avoid putting any lampshades on your head, because there are a lot of photographers here," he said. When did putting' [...]
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    Posted: March 19, 2009, 4:09am EDT

  • Scanwiches

    Check this site out, and be sure and scan your next sandwich for the site.

    Scanwiches



    My sandwiches are too boring to scan. I get a turkey, cheese and lettuce sandwich every day at the office. The deli staff at Nokia [...]
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    Posted: March 16, 2009, 8:19am EDT

  • Stuck at Rowan Oak

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    I made one of my mother's staple recipes recently, Salmon Cakes. They are easy, delicious and nutritious. My family fights over them -- they are that tasty. Here's how to make them:

    Can of salmon, drained, and thrown into a mixing bowl. Add bread crumbs [...]
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    Posted: March 11, 2009, 9:29am EDT

  • Who's Buying Natchez Regional?

    Around September, we learned that Natchez Regional was up for sale and towards the end of the year, we learned there was a secret buyer. In early January, we were supposed to hear who that was. Well, we're still waiting. In the meantime, NRMC has filed for bankruptcy - which' [...]
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    Posted: March 08, 2009, 11:34pm EST

  • Beauty and terror


    Natchez was a wonderful place to grow up -- full of interesting people and places. We loved participating in the spring pilgrimage every year -- photo above is of me and my brother Kevin, all dressed up for the pageant.

    But there was a [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2009, 7:38am EST

  • International Tourist Impacts Projected

    The Mississippi Development Authority's Division of Tourism held it's annual Governor's Conference on Tourism in Hattiesburg on February 15, 16, & 17. The purpose of the conference is to help tourism professionals keep up to date with travel trends, learn new marketing ideas and strategies, and a myriad of other' [...]

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    Posted: February 23, 2009, 1:50pm EST

  • Arts Funding: Economic Stimulus or Joke?

    The National Endowment for the Arts received $50 million in the Economic Stimulus bill. Unfortunately, it's become a joke on right wing blogs and talk radio. Do they think artists don't work? Is building a car intrinsically better than painting a picture? I just don't get it - maybe if' [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2009, 9:37pm EST

  • Being intimidated by British accents

    I'm a Mississippi girl who married an English man and have lived in the UK for almost 20 years.

    I've been noticing that Brits are starting to call each other 'Hon' or 'Honey' with abandon. Being a Mississippi girl, I used to be the only person in the UK [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2009, 2:41am EST

  • Worst Husband Competition

    Which entry do you think wins the Worst Husband Competition?

    This one from Ireland?


    Or this one from Greece?


    Or what about this guy from Scotland?


    I vote for the last [...]
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    Posted: February 17, 2009, 3:12am EST

  • Incarcerating teenaged mothers

    My mother was a social worker and especially loved her job when we lived in Natchez, Mississippi, and she worked in an unwed mothers' home (called Kings' Daughters). It's so interesting to me how times have changed. In those days, parents sent their unmarried teenaged daughters to a maternity home' [...]
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    Posted: February 15, 2009, 6:00pm EST

  • Why Mississippi Is Always Last and What We Can Do About It

    You know how Mississippi is always ranked last in everything good and first in everything bad. It's embarrassing to be the laughing stock of the nation and also infuriating because we know what Mississippi really has to offer. Well, there may be something we can do about this - it's [...]
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    Posted: February 14, 2009, 10:48pm EST

  • Tidbits from the News

    Here are three stories I read today - the first made me laugh, the second made me angry, and the third was just interesting.
    Do you know what Twitter is? It is a social networking and microblogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates' [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2009, 10:26pm EST

  • Happy Birthday Charles Darwin

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    "Has the Vatican done something right? Yesterday, Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture declared that Darwin's theory and Christian faith were not only compatible, but that Darwin's views could be traced to St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinus, The Times of London reports. Ravasi said, 'what'" [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2009, 2:44am EST

  • We Can Fly




    I attended a seminar this morning sponsored by the Natchez Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Development Association. Though I'm not a business owner I wanted to glean information for, perhaps, personal application as well' [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2009, 11:07pm EST

  • Why I Left United Mississippi Bank

    Today I removed all my funds from United Mississippi Bank and deposited them in Britton & Koontz. Here's why - read carefully.

    This horror story has two parts, the first of which was beyond UMB's control.

    Part I

    Heartland Payment Systems (hereinafter called Heartless) processes credit [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2009, 6:13pm EST

  • The Solution to the Economic Crisis

    UPDATED
    I am so excited - I have found the solution to the economic crisis, thanks to an article on The New Agenda, of which my daughter is a cofounder.

    What is the solution? It's very simple. Women.

    I know you're thinking I have finally gone off [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2009, 9:35pm EST

  • Civil Rights in Natchez

    I lived through the Civil Rights struggle when I was growing up in Natchez. My father, Leo Scanlon, was the pathologist and coroner, so he had to go out almost every weekend to attend a murder scene, mostly for black men murdered by KKK members.

    I went to Montebello [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2009, 3:09am EST

  • Pat Head Summitt - A Heroine

    Growing up, I was a tomboy and played intramural sports, the only kind available to girls at that time. I always thought it unfair that girls didn't have the same opportunities that boys had in sports.I was very involved in the 1972 passage of Title IX,' [...]
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    Posted: February 07, 2009, 10:03pm EST

  • Small towns

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    When my father moved the family from beautiful eccentric Natchez to the teeny dull Halstead, Kansas, when I was 12, I was devastated. Halstead had about 2,000 people in it, and everyone knew everyone. I hated that. There was no anonymity. Anything you did was watched and talked about.

    [...]
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    Posted: February 06, 2009, 11:23am EST
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