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On Sat, 02/20/2021 - 10:30 AM

People who choose to live in town give up some choices when they move inside the city limits.
Laws and ordinances let us know what the rules are and are designed to protect the quality of life for the thousands of people – young and old, rich and poor, black and white – who live in town.

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EDITORIAL: Do you really love Clarksdale?

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On Sat, 02/13/2021 - 04:00 AM

If you “Love” Clarksdale, then buy your Valentine a gift from a Clarksdale store this week.
January and February are two of the toughest months in the retail and restaurant business. Cold weather and short days tend to make people scurry home after work, and besides you gave your beau something at Christmas!

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EDITORIAL: Let's collect unpaid fines

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On Sat, 02/06/2021 - 06:00 AM

Coahoma County Supervisors are seeing the cost of everything they do going up, they’ve bought three trucks for their use and as with all government entities they are hiring people they know and giving them a job.
But they are also concerned about a decline in gambling revenue and don’t want to raise taxes.

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EDITORIAL: Let's welcome back tourism

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On Sat, 01/30/2021 - 06:00 AM

Something was missing from Clarksdale last year.
Tourist from all over this great nation and the world were not walking our streets, in our restaurants and joints, shopping in our stores and sleeping in our hotels, motels and bed-and-breakfast inns.
And we missed them.

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Editorial: Time to focus on unity

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On Fri, 01/29/2021 - 03:45 PM

It was no surprise that a plea for unity was the central piece in President Joe Biden’s inaugural address.

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EDITORIAL: The Delta’s shining star

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On Fri, 07/17/2020 - 03:22 PM

Elections are over, football is here and the cotton bolls will soon burst as Clarksdale and Coahoma County enjoy yet another harvest season.

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EDITORIAL: Lines of Liberty

By Floyd INgram / Press Register, READ MORE > 2,376 Reads
On Thu, 07/02/2020 - 11:28 AM

“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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EDITORIAL: Time to plant

By Floyd Ingram / The Press Register, READ MORE > 2,181 Reads
On Fri, 04/10/2020 - 08:14 AM

A quick look around will tell anyone this is the season to plant.

We've had our cold weather and yes, the rain has slowed most farmers down, but the Sun shines a little longer and hotter each day and the green has bloomed strong. Even city folk can look around and see it is Spring and that means it is the time to plant.

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EDITORIAL: The stimulus

By Floyd Ingram / The Press Register, READ MORE > 2,743 Reads
On Thu, 04/02/2020 - 05:53 PM

The $2.2 trillion stimulus package just enacted by the U.S. Congress sports an incredible number.

With the U.S. population estimated at 331,002,651 March 30 that factors out to $6,646.47 per person. But don’t look for a check for that amount in the mail. There are others with their hand out, too.

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FLOYD INGRAM: Let’s look on down the road

By Floyd Ingram / The Press Register, READ MORE > 2,138 Reads
On Mon, 03/23/2020 - 12:46 PM

You hold in your hand the solution to the nations’ toilet paper shortage.

No, you Delta clodhoppers, I mean the news and information that allows you to make wise and informed decisions about your life.

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