Redistricting: A long, hot summer in Jackson
A lot has been said, especially here in the Delta, concerning the forthcoming changes set to occur in congressional redistricting. No doubt, a lot more will be said. New political territories will certainly reopen old political wounds, as the jockeying for position gets underway. Because Mississippi will lose one congressman, 200,000 people must now be drawn into the 2nd district under the new guidelines. Almost anyway you slice this, the majority of these new voters will be white.
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The perpetuation of welfare
BY JACK CRISS DBJ Executive Editor
The old saying is that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Whoever made this apt statement could have easily been talking about modern welfare as we know it in the United States.
At one time in our nation’s history, if you were down on your luck, or suffered some misfortune through no fault of your own, neighbors or private charities came through to help. Assistance was not namelessly legislated as became the case. People were usually only too happy to help their fellow man in times of distress. These days are almost long forgotten, as now your tax money is distributed far and wide to the anonymous disenfranchised from Somalia to Watts.
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Delta Development
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May 1, Issue
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Wyatt Emmerich: Printer’s ink is in his blood
Third-generation newspaper publisher Greenwood native, expanding his family’s legacy
 BY JACK CRISS DBJ Executive Editor
With the recent purchase of the 12,000-circulation Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, MS, Emmerich Newspapers owner Wyatt Emmerich has added another publication to an already impressive regional roster. More importantly, the 42-year old entrepreneur has continued a tradition started in the 1920’s by his grandfather. The story of Wyatt Emmerich, and his grandfather and father, is truly one of the inspiration in the annals of Mississippi business history.
“My grandfather started in the newspaper business in McComb in the Twenties,” Emmerich recalls. “At the time, the industry was a very fragmented one, and technology was quite crude, totally different from how it is today. The cost of printing was enormously high, and type had to be set by hand.” Oliver Emmerich had been a county agent prior to his entering the newspaper business. When asked to write a column about his job, Mr. Emmerich found he was better at writing about the job than doing it, as Wyatt Emmerich tells it, and subsequently purchased the McComb Enterprise.
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Winterville Mounds receives official recognition as National Historic Landmark
Recognition means much to Winterville
BY ROBERT MCFARLAND, JR. DBJ Contributing Writer
On the afternoon of April 7, over 100 attended an official ceremony recognizing the Winterville Indian Mounds (and museum) just north of Greenville as a national historic landmark. Elbert Hilliard, Director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, presided over the event.
“I am very gratified how the people of Greenville, Mayor Paul Artman’s office, The Greenville Garden Club, the Winterville Mound’s Committee and so many others have contributed to giving Winterville Mounds a new look and a new beginning,” says Eleanor Humphreys, branch director.
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