Opinion
Opinion: Federal court’s Obamacare ruling would end popular benefits
Right before Christmas a U.S. District Court Judge in Texas ruled the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare,…
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Opinion: State correction agency wise to back off inmate book ban, welcome help for inmates
Originally published in The Greenwood Commonwealth newspaper: It was a misguided and probably unconstitutional policy, so it’s wise…
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State leader: Mississippi is winning; Is he correct or just wishfully thinking?
Last week, Mississippi’s top economic developer Glenn McCullough Jr. penned a guest column published in many of the…
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We are not the enemy: Time to stand up for freedom of the press
Enough already. The last couple of years have been an unending barrage against the freedom of the press…
Opinion
A mascot all Rebels can love
Ole Miss mascots have been providing drama, water cooler conversation and news stories for 15 years now. You…
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It’s time to get real about Mississippi’s crumbling infrastructure
Mississippi’s crumbling bridges are in microcosm a glimpse at a much larger, national problem.
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Donald Trump’s new advisor: Maury Povich? (Cartoon)
With so many sex and pregnancy scandals in Trump's White House, a new kind of advisor is needed.
Opinion
A Mississippi truth warrior changes jobs
The falling political dominoes since Thad Cochran’s Senate retirement have resulted Rep. Andy Gipson landing as state agriculture…
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Let’s stop talking about Mississippi’s infrastructure woes and do something about it
I’ve decided that infrastructure is the new weather: everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything about it.
Opinion
Why was the Confederacy so obsessively devoted to preserving slavery?
As the great historian C. Vann Woodward told us, “Nowhere else did a slave society wage a life-and-death…