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Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
December 19, 2018

SALTER: Christmas holiday’s bounty belies hard realities of poverty, hunger in Mississippi

By: Sid Salter Perhaps if I were a preacher, which I’m decidedly not, and I offered a sermon, which this decidedly isn’t, I’d call it: “Christmas and The Farm Bill.” While most of us in this country and in this state celebrate the birth of Christ with family feasts that call Norman Rockwell paintings to…
Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
December 12, 2018

SALTER: McNeece was a fourth-generation community journalist and a lady of great substance

By: Sid Salter My friend Lisa Denley McNeece would have made light of the cruel absurdity of her death on Sunday at her home in Bruce. Under singularly unexpected circumstances, she just died. She was a vibrant 56 years old. The doctor told the family he suspected a massive embolism or blood clot. Loved ones…