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Running the gauntlet of idiocy that is Oxford traffic

By Steve Stricker Columnist This past Tuesday I passed a parked pickup with stickers completely blocking the rear ...

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Vietnam Veterans Day date is significant

By Gene Hays MSgt, USMC (Ret) Celebrated every March 29, Vietnam Veterans Day is set aside as a ...

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Working poor getting health care is economic development

By Sid Salter Columnist In recent decades, Mississippi has defied the odds in economic development. Landing first Nissan ...

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For Heaven’s sake, please use soap

By Les Ferguson Jr. Columnist In the old sitcom Fresh Prince of Bel Air, the theme song sung ...

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Sunday visits at the cathedral with no doors

By Harold Brummett Denmark Star Route Sundays are nothing like it used to be. As a child and ...

Lifestyle

Season change calls for cleaning out junk drawers

By Bonnie Brown Columnist As I shared with you all in earlier columns, I always feel the need ...

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Withdrawal pains from sons’ visit is a good ache

By Steve Stricker Columnist Of all the heroes in my life, I am very proud to say with ...

Lifestyle

Let’s see health care as a civil right

Sandra C. Melvin Guest Columnist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stated, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice ...

News

It’s time to modernize public notice rates in Mississippi

From the Mississippi Press Association Mississippi’s newspapers have been trusted with publishing legally required government notices for decades ...

Lifestyle

Cedar Oaks is a treasure, with the bees gone

By Harold Brummett Denmark Star Route Several years ago my daughter Patti and I went to a Marty ...

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The mother of all misheard lyrics

By Les Ferguson Jr. Columnist I have it on good authority that a friend once had a celebrity ...

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Calls to change MAEP funding formula have consequences

By Sid Salter Columnist The Mississippi Adequate Education Formula had its genesis almost 30 years ago in politics ...

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Let’s hope AI can teach manners

By Bonnie Brown Columnist What is AI (Artificial Intelligence)?  Well, it’s hard to explain because I don’t have ...

Lifestyle

Some things can’t be explained, or can they?

By Steve Stricker Columnist Lent, March 2022, ongoing restoration by a team of 50 scientists of the Church ...

Lifestyle

Black History Month: Brave Marine died fighting to the end

By Gene Hays MSgt, USMC (Ret) Vietnam War – U.S. Marine Corps – Medal of Honor – Miguel ...

Lifestyle

Some things never change

By Jan Penton Miller My Papaw, the late William Carroll Palmer, Sr. could strike up a conversation with anyone. ...

Business

PERS casts a long shadow for lawmakers

By Sid Salter Columnist Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann recently identified the long-term financial stability of the Mississippi’s ...

Lifestyle

No cure for regret at memorial service

By Harold Brummett  Denmark Star Route I have heard it said someone cannot miss what they have not ...

Lifestyle

Cofield’s Corner

By John Cofield In 1980 Hollywood came to call on Oxford once again for the filming of a ...

Lifestyle

Simple days, runaway pigs remembered

By Bonnie Brown Columnist Gettin’ old ain’t for sissies!  This has become my mantra in recent years.  As ...

Lifestyle

Much more to lives than etched epithets

By Les Ferguson, Jr. Columnist I’m not a fan of cemeteries and graveyards. I get their purpose. I ...

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