Letter: Life under a dictator
In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler wrote that he abhorred democracy because it gave a voice to non-Germans, particularly Czechs, Slavs, Balts and, of course, Jews.
Other Editors: The Jan. 6 riot reaches the Supreme Court
The people who breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are being held accountable, and attempts to rebrand them as patriotic choirboys are a sign of the bizarre political times. Yet is it unduly stretching the law to prosecute Jan. 6 rioters using the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002?
Our View: Attendance policies are healthy for boards and their members
It’s fair to say that most towns and cities rely on volunteers to meet the needs of their citizens, mainly by serving on boards and commissions.
Our View: Historic places are chances to share a shared history
It seems self-evident today, but the most interesting aspect of the 181-year-old Friendship Cemetery is not the headstones and grave markers but what lies beneath them.
Letter: Starkville’s use of ARPA outshines county
During the fall of 2021, Starkville received $3.2 million from the American Rescue Plan Act and in December 2022 received another $3.2 million, totaling $6.4
Letter: Education in the democratic republic
Back in the 1600’s, when the idea of a democratic republic was invented, guys like Spinoza and Diderot wrote that the biggest obstacle to success
Other Editors: Thank you, Mississippi taxpayers, for funding Medicaid expansion in 40 other states
Happy Tax Day, when millions of us Mississippians will send our hard-earned money to 40 other states that are providing health care coverage to millions of poor, working people.
Froma Harrop: As Nebraska goes, so could go Maine
Every state is different. Nebraska is quite different. It is one of only two states that doesn’t use the winner-take-all system in presidential elections. Along with Maine, it allocates its Electoral College votes to reflect the results in each of its congressional districts.
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.”