Other Editors: Felon voting bill will have to wait
Though the effort was unsuccessful this year, a bill to restore voting rights to certain felons had bipartisan support and should be reintroduced in 2025.
Dustin Gentry: Medicaid is a blessing, not a burden for Mississippi
Medicaid Expansion in Mississippi has been wrongly construed as a vehicle to support non-working, able-bodied people who do not deserve free (to them) healthcare.
Sid Salter: In Mississippi’s Medicaid debate, look at rapidly increasing rural mortality rates
As Mississippi legislators head to conference on the state’s first sincere consideration of some form of Medicaid expansion, we’ve heard alarms sounded by the right and the left on why the state alternately should or should not expand Medicaid coverage for the state’s working poor.
Letter: Response to Shad White: College is about thinking critically
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true
Slimantics: No good or bad, just important
I had been sports editor at The East Valley Tribune, located in the Metro Phoenix area, for only a few months when the newspaper’s editor, Alan Geere, announced in our editor’s meeting that we would be trying something different for the July 22, 1998 edition of the paper.
Letter: A bad plan is a bad plan
The Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors at its April 1 board meeting approved a proposal for Slaughter and Associates, an urban planning firm based in
Possumhaw: Somewhere between here and there
For the last eight years I’ve been tapping out these columns on my Dell 11 inch laptop. I loved that little computer.
Roses and Thorns: 4-13-24
A rose to Chuck Yarborough and his history students at Mississippi School for Math and Science for another outstanding production of Tales From The Crypt.
Mona Charen: The GOP is the party of Putin
“Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base.”
Thom Caraccio: It’s Shake and Bake and I hailped
TV commercials were born about the same time as I was. They have been stitched into our lives to the point where we hardly give them a thought.
Ask Rufus: A timeline of the founding of Columbus
I’m always digging into southern history with Carolyn Kaye and Gary Lancaster, and new information is constantly turning up.
Shad White: Fixing the university enrollment cliff
Our universities are facing a looming crisis. The news outlet Inside Higher Ed recently stated that “the number of traditional college-aged students will peak in 2025 and then decline dramatically for several years.”
Froma Harrop: The anti-abortion right is not into compromise
Getting rid of Roe v. Wade was sold as a sensible and mollifying approach to the abortion controversy. It would let each state ban or codify a right to abortion in accordance with local culture.
Letter: Hates to see division over annexation
It pains me greatly to see the division that has reared its ugly head once again between the two governing bodies in the city and
Adam Ganucheau: The Christian argument for Medicaid expansion
The bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Jackson is glued to the legislative debate over Medicaid expansion.
Letter: Supports Trump
After reading the letter by Mr. Whitten I just wanted to respond. I know President Trump isn’t perfect, but neither are any of us. I
Letter: Offended by Trump’s Mandela comparison
Recently I observed a message from Donald Trump stating that he was comparing himself to Nelson Mandela. That is one of the worst lies he
Our View: Is third time the charm for OCH sale?
Noted mathematicians and historian Morris Kline once observed that the most fertile source of insight is hindsight.
Sid Salter: Prison system history begs to break the recidivism cycle
After more than 40 years of reporting and writing about crime and punishment in Mississippi, I’ve seen the pendulum swing from “get tough” to “out of sight, out of mind” to “who’s making money off the system now?”
Jiben Roy: The ideas – the most important
The other day I was watching a Bengali TV serial called “Hunter.” It was about the killing of a sparrow. At the end, it gave the link on which it is based.