Opinion

Thankful for Jesse Jr.’s enduring Christmas spirit

Walking across the rickety front porch, I tapped on the glass in the wooden door and could hear ...

Opinion

The value of two memorable Christmases

A few weeks ago before an EAGLE staff meeting, some of us were sitting around discussing Christmas. How ...

Opinion

It’s possible: Mississippi could send a Democrat, too

For the second time, the extreme political right overplayed its hand and delivered a Republican U.S. Senate seat ...

Opinion

Mississippi in the midst of its biggest “tax shift” ever

A “tax shift” is devastating to working people, but is usually pretty hard to spot.  Simply put, it ...

Columns

Is the pen mightier than the sword?

I recently started writing for the Oxford Eagle, and every day I sit back and think to myself, ...

Opinion

Remember nursing home patients at Christmas

By Danny Tyree At this festive time of year, it is good to remember those who will probably ...

Opinion

Thank God for baby girls and nurses

My daughter graduated from nursing school this week, and it occurred to me the moment she clinched the ...

Opinion

What makes up a Millennial or Gen-Zer?

By T.J. Ray His questions were lucid and his passion about them was quite apparent. The young fellow ...

Opinion

Invest into the LOU community this holiday season

According to Vince Lombardi, “the measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.” ...

Opinion

Ready to reunite with The Force once more

I haven’t pre-purchased any tickets, which may be a big mistake, but some time this weekend I hope ...

Opinion

Gerrymandering: A portmanteau threat to democracy

The dictionary tells us that a portmanteau is a word blending the sounds and combining the meaning of ...

Opinion

True to history, Mississippi both gracious and vicious

My, my, my. Such language. Granted, having Donald Trump at the opening of a civil rights museum was ...

Opinion

Finding out Santa is so much more than a jolly old man bearing gifts

‘Tis the season when Jolly Ol’ St. Nick comes into our lives for a brief, albeit magical month. ...

Opinion

An Ode to Billie Joe: Fifty years and counting

By Hans Sinha It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day.. Fifty years ago, Bobbie ...

Opinion

Charitable giving – An American Tradition

By Tom Purcell Ah, the giving season is upon us – the best time of the year to ...

Opinion

MAGIC not helping state’s vehicle inventory

By Charlie Mitchell Well, they tried. Credit the Legislature with attempting, by golly, to devise a system to ...

Opinion

After years of discussion, many projects are finally coming to fruition in Oxford

If I had a nickel for every time I wrote a story about the new Baptist Memorial Hospital-North ...

Opinion

Still partial to silver, white and live trees

By Joel McNeece My wife Lisa and I spent the Thanksgiving weekend putting up our Christmas decorations at ...

Opinion

An honest question: What, or who, am I?

By TJ Ray It is so very difficult in these exciting times of changing hair color and sex ...

Opinion

Will the Kurds be this generation’s Montagnards?

By Hans Sinah While Americans may disagree on the best policy and strategy to turn the Middle East ...

Opinion

“Not Good Enough” is not good enough

By Tony Caldwell Many of us struggle with self-defeating thoughts, low esteem, and other such barriers to well-being. ...

Opinion

Treating symptoms no cure for mass murder disease

By Charlie Mitchell When a patient shows up with an ailment, a doctor is sometimes able to cure ...

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