Opinion

Orwell knew the inherent power of the big lie

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”—George Orwell ROLLING FORK—The truth can, indeed, set you free, ...

Opinion

2020 census has a dismal map for Mississippi

When Mississippi reported a population decline in the 2020 census, everybody knew the bad news was coming for ...

Opinion

Will eliminating income tax grow Mississippi?

Gov. Tate Reeves, House Speaker Philip Gunn and others who tout eliminating Mississippi’s personal income tax as a ...

Opinion

Many issues settled as session end nears

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana legislative session enters its last week with Republican leaders’ main tax ...

Opinion

Can state make a hard turn toward growth, prosperity?

Mississippians, especially young college-educated Mississippians, have been voting with their feet against our state’s status quo. The Magnolia ...

Opinion

How many roads, indeed?

Editor’s Note: This column is dedicated to the life and times of, and the legend that is Henry ...

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State court relies on literal reading for ruling

Gov. Tate Reeves made three appointments last week to the Mississippi Community College Board — appointments from the ...

Opinion

Proving grammar can be funny

“Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.”—William Safire ROLLING FORK — No, I do not think ...

Opinion

Political correctness to be the death of us all

By Ray Mosby “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”— George Orwell ROLLING ...

Opinion

A word of advice for today’s graduates

Graduation season always puts me in a nostalgic frame of mind. It was a great time in my ...

Opinion

You can not throw a human being away

By Wyatt Emmerich After hearing Bradley Lum speak to our Rotary Club, I was so pumped. I could ...

Opinion

Auditor’s school project would be helpful here

The Natchez-Adams School District, and to a much lesser extent Adams County Christian School and Cathedral, will soon ...

Opinion

Russia’s Putin making aggressive moves near Alaska

By Ray Mosby “They’re our next-door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, ...

Opinion

Wicker opposes Biden’s rush toward socialism

By Roger Wicker About a year ago, when the coronavirus first gripped our nation, House Democratic Whip James ...

Opinion

Mississippi legislators sidestep some division

By Emily Wagster Pettus Mississippi lawmakers grabbed national headlines this year by banning transgender athletes from competing on ...

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Gunn doesn’t see health care as a Christian issue

Health care advocates, many health care providers and others who desperately want to see the state expand Medicaid ...

Obituaries

Reminisce about a great newspaperman

“Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories about the deaths of kings…”—King Richard II CLARKSDALE—It ...

Opinion

Tax overhaul gains momentum, but what approach?

With two weeks of the legislative session complete, Louisiana’s Republican legislative leaders have speeded ahead with a rewrite ...

Opinion

Many lessons we should take from COVID

From the start of the Covid epidemic, I felt like “excess deaths” was the key statistic to follow. ...

Opinion

Supreme Court deciding on taking away voter’s right to place issues on ballot … again

A former legislative leader who was not enamored with the state’s initiative process used to call it “government ...

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