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Slim Smith: Roe v. Wade and Prohibition

By Slim Smith • June 23, 2022

By the time you read this, Mississippians may have lost the right to have an abortion.

Our View: GTRA’s operation, succession plan offer clear message: We need more Mike Hainseys

By Dispatch Editorial Board • June 22, 2022

It’s an old saying, one appropriate to the occasion: Nobody ever talks about the planes that land safely.

Ben Shapiro: The death of the elite ‘center’

By Ben Shapiro • June 22, 2022

The false center cannot hold.

Sid Salter: The partisan standoff over funding: The uncertain future of the Social Security program

By Sid Salter • June 22, 2022

Stop the presses: Democrats and Republicans disagree over the future of what used to be called “the third rail” of American politics — the Social Security program. Water is also wet…

Slimantics: Summer days are memory-makers

By Slim Smith • June 21, 2022

Today is the summer solstice, often referred to as the longest day of the year. Of course, all days consist of 24 hours, so what is meant by the longest day of the year is that summer solstice is the day there is more daylight than any other.

Other Editors: The high cost of homicides

By Greenwood Commonwealth, June 11 • June 21, 2022

After the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, law enforcement critics said local governments needed to defund the police. Shad White, the state auditor for Mississippi, has released a report that says exactly the opposite.

Froma Harrop: Fortune favors the brave not always

By Custom Source • June 21, 2022

“Fortune favors the brave” was the slogan for Crypto.com, a cryptocurrency company now laying off hundreds of workers.

Possumhaw: Beauty and the birds

By Shannon Bardwell • June 20, 2022

It seems a little late for all the bird nesting going on here in the Prairie. For weeks we watched the red-shouldered hawk seize an abandoned crow’s nest high in the crook of a tree. We learned her call and heard her often. Sitting on the front porch using binoculars we could see her head bobbing around in the nest. Some few days later she started flying in and out repeatedly.

Bobby Harrison: Miss. did what S. Dakota couldn’t: block Medicaid expansion

By Bobby Harrison • June 20, 2022

The South Dakota Republican leadership, like many of their counterparts in Mississippi, oppose accepting federal funds to provide health insurance for primarily the working poor.

Mona Charen: It’s what Trump had a responsibility to know

By Froma Harrop • June 20, 2022

Watergate, whose 50th anniversary is upon us, is remembered for the question: “What did the president know and when did he know it?” But in our age of post-truth politics, the question loses its punch. The Jan. 6 committee devoted the second of its public hearings to demonstrating beyond doubt that Donald Trump knew he had lost the 2020 election.

Roses and thorns: 6-19-22

By Dispatch Editorial Board • June 18, 2022

A rose to all the fathers out there today on Father’s Day. Established in the United States as a national holiday by Congress in 1972

Partial to Home: On tour with Dr. Jimmy

By Birney Imes • June 18, 2022

The elevator door opened and two third-year med students, both looking to be in their early 20s, got in. A white male and an African-American female.

Jabe Nicholson: Everybody has a Father

By Jabe Nicholson • June 18, 2022

Everyone — excluding Jesus — has a biological father. But life experience is very different. What everyone wants, and many never have, is a present,

Our view: PPP fraud should be prosecuted, but benefits of the program are obvious

By Dispatch Editorial Board • June 17, 2022

When the Trump Administration pushed the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) in 2020, it was widely praised as a godsend for businesses and their employees at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic created the worst unemployment rates since the Great Depression.

Letter: Endorses Michael Guest

By David M. Chism • June 17, 2022

I would like to remind the Republican voters of Oktibbeha and Noxubee counties of the congressional runoff set for June 28. Either set a reminder

Froma Harrop: High gas prices do not stop traffic

By Froma Harrop • June 17, 2022

It’s easy to find people who say gas prices will keep them from driving. They’re on the roads.

Wyatt Emmerich: No clear answer on school shootings

By Wyatt Emmerich • June 16, 2022

Freedom is paid for with blood. The Ukrainians are seeing that reality in a real and horrible way. America has seen it in numerous wars. We see it in the tens of thousands of car wrecks that maim and kill every year. We witnessed this reality last month in a rash of school shootings.

Ben Shapiro: Joe Biden’s economy is a disaster

By Ben Shapiro • June 16, 2022

This week, the stock market took a turn into bear territory on the heels of yet another brutal monthly inflation report. With the Federal Reserve considering larger rate hikes in order to tamp down record inflation, the possibility of a near-term recession now looms quite large, despite the feeble protestations of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

Our View: Starkville school district recognizes importance of dyslexia therapy

By Dispatch Editorial Board • June 15, 2022

Mississippi’s approach to providing tailored instruction for students with dyslexia has been a hit-or-miss effort, mostly miss.

Sid Salter: A surprising week in Mississippi politics revolves around entrenched division, apathy

By Sid Salter • June 15, 2022

From the U.S. Capitol to rural polling places in Mississippi in midterm congressional primaries, it has been a week of surprises and political drama that revolved around both intense political division and at the same time political apathy.

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