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Hosemann wants to delay 2021 session as COVID-19 spikes. House leaders remain hesitant.

By ADAM GANUCHEAU - MISSISSIPPI TODAY ADAM GANUCHEAU - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Tue,12/29/20-3:39PM, 13,459 Reads 124,196 Statewide
Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said he plans to talk with House Speaker Philip Gunn on Tuesday afternoon about postponing the 2021 legislative session from January to March as COVID-19 numbers continue to spike in Mississippi.
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Kelley Williams, Jr.

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Dialogue in the era of social media

Wed,09/30/20-9:38AM, 13,412 Reads 313,085 Statewide
When my columns appear in the Northside Sun my publicist, er, wife, often posts a link to the online versions on her Facebook page. On one such occasion recently a friend of mine from Berkeley challenged me on a couple of points in my article. This led to a dialogue between us from which I extract some general principles.
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Sebastopol News

By LINDA L. CORLEY LINDA L. CORLEY
Wed,09/27/17-11:44AM, 13,319 Reads
Homecoming Week
Sympathy is extended to the family of Doyle Lee Fisher.
Prayers and concern for the following people: Kemper and Wyatt Gomillion, Tam Risher, Carleton Thrash, Virginia Gould, Debbie French, and the many others we do not know at this time.
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Dr. Arnold Smith, below, became wildly fixated on Lee Abraham, above -- an obsession that prosecutors claimed led to an unsuccessful assassination attempt on the Greenwood attorney in 2012. Smith has not had to face a criminal trial because of his mental illness and settled in 2019 a lawsuit filed by Abraham.

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Trial might never happen for alleged murder-for-hire plot

By TIM KALICH TIM KALICH - Greenwood Commonwealth
Sun,05/01/22-1:38PM, 13,308 Reads 172,348 Statewide
It had the makings of the trial of the century.
Dr. Arnold Smith, an eccentric but accomplished oncologist with a maniacal obsession about Lee Abraham, had been charged with hiring a felon to try to assassinate the Greenwood attorney, but the felon was gunned down instead.
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