The Star’s Sunday editorial was terrible

I’m proud to learn from gleaning your info about residents not wetting themselves over pumping up the jam in the Downtown Money Hole.

The Star earlier tells of soon to come festive banners (60-70) let’s use 65 that’s $200 a pop compliments of MS Development Authority providing a more festive appearance like putting lipstick on a pig.

So the public polled isn’t drinking the Cool Aide (sic) just keep using your newspaper to make people “feel guilty” but guys those you poll have witnessed the progress, promises & bright ideas that our area has been paying debt service towards.

You see the good people have developed an understanding of Meridian Progress/ Development it stinks and they don’t want to step in. I think think you get it. I know I do. PS send Paula Merritt to the MAX Center where she can take photos of Barney, Floyd & Andy wanting for “the Gold Truck” it’s arriving down the Green Mile/ the blighted Doorway please be there. We’re proud of it WE BELIEVE ummmmm gooooooooood.

Bill Heidelberg

Meridian

Pursuing our nature to be free

There is a rite of passage that has been beckoning since the beginning of time – ruth and freedom and the precedent at which we as a species demand it.

Through life we reach a moment that defines us. We search for meaning. We search for that moment that releases are ambitions and we feel pure. We feel accomplished. We feel free. That moment has brought man to its knees and lifted us into the heavens. It has created and it has destroyed. It has lived and it has died within us; through us.

Our fathers came to that moment as we have and soon our sons and daughters will be sanctified within that moment. Who are we? Why are we? Do I live for myself or am I stronger than that? How can I help to fulfil our father’s design?

Creation lives within determination. It thrives within our will for freedom; within our will to survive. It thrives within reason, empathy and emotion. But behind all this there is a constant that remains. The everlasting truth that we are meant to be born free.

It is an animalistic nature that men of many color and faiths have tried to demise. They have tried to render it defenseless throughout time, only to return to the fact that humanity and freedom are forever resolute.

Daniel Gray

Collinsville