Bounds News

In 2006, well before the Great Recession, the Pew Research Center reported that about half of American adults thought that the nation's children would grow up to be worse off than people then were.

WHEN HANK BOUNDS, Mississippi's Commissioner of Higher Education, visited the Hattiesburg American editorial board this week, one key phrase that he mentioned must be the goal of every state university as it seeks to deal with the budget crisis.

Twenty years ago, Tom Ball and I went to Atlanta to attend the Georgia Cracker Crumble at the Omni - an event sponsored by the Georgia Press Association to support journalism scholarships in the Peach State.