TIM KALICH | The Greenwood Commonwealth

By TIM KALICH - Editor, 233 Reads
Posted On Sat, 04/10/2021 - 02:00 AM

Although the Senate this year shelved House Speaker Philip Gunn’s effort to enact a decadelong phaseout of Mississippi’s individual income tax, the issue is not likely to go away.

Surgeon says keto diet can help diabetics, overweight people, others

By TIM KALICH - Editor, 536 Reads
Posted On Wed, 04/07/2021 - 02:00 AM

Dr. John Lucas III has several passions, surgery and Scouting among them. One of his latest is spreading the word about the benefits of the keto diet, especially for many diabetics and most anyone who is overweight.

Greenwood’s best point

By TIM KALICH - Editor, 371 Reads
Posted On Fri, 04/02/2021 - 09:05 PM

At the end of a radio interview this past week, the host of the program, David Dallas, said he wanted to ask me the final question he puts to all of his guests.
“What do you like most about Greenwood?”

Brown: Many still reluctant to send children to school

By TIM KALICH - Editor

, 70 Reads
Posted On Wed, 03/24/2021 - 01:09 AM

The Greenwood Leflore Consolidated School District’s attempt to wean students back into in-person instruction has met with more reluctance than school officials had anticipated.

Nancy New scandal grows

By TIM KALICH - Editor, 77 Reads
Posted On Fri, 03/19/2021 - 11:10 PM

The court system will have to determine whether Nancy New is a crook or just a victim of some very shoddy bookkeeping.

About 2 months' worth of virus relief funds left

By TIM KALICH - Editor, 52 Reads
Posted On Wed, 03/17/2021 - 01:54 AM

Greenwood Leflore Hospital has about two months left of coronavirus relief money before what was once a nearly $25 million well will run dry.

Next vaccines' timetable uncertain

By TIM KALICH - Editor, 39 Reads
Posted On Wed, 03/17/2021 - 01:54 AM

Greenwood Leflore Hospital has been told that it is going to start getting shipments of COVID-19 vaccines to help in the campaign to inoculate the general public against the disease.

But it doesn’t yet know how many doses it will receive or when they will be coming.

Pulley did Moore no favor

By TIM KALICH - Editor, 106 Reads
Posted On Sat, 03/13/2021 - 01:05 AM

Reginald Moore may be wishing these days that his DUI charge from last November had been prosecuted.

Had Kelvin Pulley, the Leflore County prosecutor, presented the evidence to the judge, chances are, whatever the verdict, it would have been a one-day story and blown over quickly.

Former MBN agent often speaks on dangers of vaping

By TIM KALICH - Editor, 48 Reads
Posted On Wed, 03/03/2021 - 03:03 AM

During his 26 years working for the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, Jimmie Nichols Jr. didn’t spend a lot of time worrying about vaping.

Now he’s being asked to preach about its dangers, especially to teens whose rising use of e-cigarettes is being called an epidemic.

Tax overhaul unlikely to fly

By TIM KALICH - Editor, 52 Reads
Posted On Sat, 02/27/2021 - 02:52 AM

The effort of House Speaker Philip Gunn and other Republican leaders in that chamber to overhaul the state’s tax structure is most likely doomed.

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Tuesday, April 13, 2021