Editorials

The price of energy efficiency

Mississippi homeowners who are thinking about becoming seriously energy efficient now have one good estimate on how much that might cost: $15,000.

NASA’s next giant leap

Last weekend’s 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing prompted a number of television shows and newspaper stories. Their general theme was that going to the moon was expensive and risky — but worth it.

Voting system is vulnerable

While Mississippi continues to largely ignore the warning that its dependence on paperless voting machines is asking for trouble, here comes word of another vulnerability that these older computerized voting systems probably have.

When some of you read this your preconceived ideas of my writings or what others have said about the newspaper will prevent you from taking my intent from this column: It is called in scientific terms, “intuitive epistemology”. My mother often referred to this as hard-headedness.

Reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s

Here’s a headline on The Washington Post website that ought to get everybody’s attention: “Doing these five things could decrease your risk of Alzheimer’s by 60 percent, new study says.”

Reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s

Here’s a headline on The Washington Post website that ought to get everybody’s attention: “Doing these five things could decrease your risk of Alzheimer’s by 60 percent, new study says.”

On the job

to the very end

Here’s an interesting report from The Associated Press: Out of 1,423 participants in a poll, nearly one quarter of them said they never plan to retire from work.

On the job

to the very end