In no particular order, here’s some general opinions and thoughts into the evolving story about our public utility company and its leadership. Something Material? ClarksdaleNews has been talking with some CPU officials. It is clear that some think the investigation will, or has, revealed something of material consequence on our three suspended executives. What that […]
“You been seein’ the McCain funeral, we been watchin’ it,” and with that Michael Hunter floored me again. We talked about McCain briefly, I should’a dug into it more, to better understand what Michael thinks about all of that, but our conversation quickly moved on to Michael remembering the last time we met, and how […]
One of ClarksdaleNews’ main goals is to give voice to our citizens. If you feel like you want to say something, or that you don’t have a place to be seen and heard, you got that place now. All must be within our ethics and standards, of course (here), and we are most interested in […]
ClarksdaleNews found comments from some of our citizens on a Facebook page trail interesting, and worth sharing. Although all names were in public on that Facebook page, they have been removed here. Only their comments follow exactly as stated. The Headline: I truly feel sorry for CLARKSDALE! You can go just a few counties away […]
From all of the information, back and forth claims and accusations, rising tension and public uncertainty, we certainly want to see the situation at CPU to reach a conclusion quickly (and to know exactly what it is). This is especially so because of the rapidly rising legal costs to the citizens of Clarkdale (CPU legal […]
Needless to say, I had a wonderful time with this award winning production company who just visited us here in Clarksdale. Here’s their letter to us, and all of us can be glad that our community was friendly, as usual, and eager to put our best faces forward. Dear Clarksdale (this was also sent to […]
OPINION The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. William Blake My hometown has never been short of opinion. Me either. Our opinions often come from something we really know about, and most of us are rather sure our opinion is truly informed. Yet, it’s also […]
An Unexpected Coming Together to Find a Solution (pt 2 of this story here) The phone rang here late at night after we had just put up the first round of the honorary Arts & Culture District signs in downtown Clarksdale. It was our State Representative Orlando Paden. It was a courtesy call that someone […]
The Sheriff and the Chief of Police, just Wow! Prologue I’m not sure how to best tie together the importance of part 2 in the Dollar Bill story without background context. For the last few years ClarksdaleNews has been working on a number of projects, all have one common thought and goal: Clarksdale progress, for […]
OPINION ClarksdaleNews has had recent interactions with CPU with General Manager Mark Johnson, Chief Financial Officer Steve Reed, and Public Relations Director Chris Campos. There also has been frequent work done with many of CPU’s managers and crewmen. Much of this involvement had to do with mounting the Arts & Culture District signs downtown, and […]
