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First day of summer: When is summer solstice 2017?

We could say that summer in Oxford is great so far except that it is not summer yet. ...

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Please, one reality at a time

“There’s small choice in rotten apples.”—Shakespeare I am really quite tired of re-litigating the last election, and as ...

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Stop the presses! Sanity returns!

By TJ Ray Sometimes in life people experience Huh? moments. Those are those rare times when the sudden ...

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Ensuring high school grads are equipped for citizenship

By Tom Purcell “I may have to do WHAT to receive my high school diploma?” “Pass a U.S. ...

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Cornflakes and Bioethanol

By John W. Jurss To continue our series on existing and emerging renewable energy technologies, this article focuses ...

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Seeing the worst and best

By Joel McNeece Thursday, June 1 was a horrible day, and yet I saw some of the best ...

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LOFT could use sponsorships

As an Oxford-Lafayette community member or business, have you ever considered different ways of giving back to the ...

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The state of mental health care in Mississippi

For many years, there has been a strong national movement to serve children and families in their homes ...

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Judge Wingate says Epps no small-time offender

By Charlie Mitchell There’s no way to know what former Mississippi Commissioner of Corrections Christopher Epps expected when ...

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World Clubfoot Day now has significant meaning to my family

No parent wants to hear that their unborn child may have anything where the words “congenital deformity” are ...

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Joe Rogers: Cuba’s faded glory

Among the first things I noticed after arriving in Cuba was the attractiveness of the young female customs ...

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Government’s BMI chart hard to swallow, but here’s trying

The surprised look on my wife’s face was startling. She had just logged onto a medical web portal ...

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Are you what you read?

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to ...

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Mental Health: Changing the conversation

By John Damon The early Greeks believed in a mind-body dualism or that the mind and body are ...

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Playing games with the squirrels

By TJ Ray I had to quit after the third round was found. Looking for spent bullets can ...

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Fear of relegation motivates

By Joel McNeece Relegation may be the answer to the troubling discourse in our politics today. The relegation ...

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When life changes

Twenty-two years ago today, my life changed forever. Fortunately, that change was for the better. Twenty-two years ago ...

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Yes, it really is possible (and necessary) to disagree with someone without resorting to personal attacks

Hate mail is nothing new for me or anyone in my profession. I’ve been in journalism for 10 ...

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Two on Facebook: One says ‘lynch;’ the other says ‘serve’

By Charlie Mitchell Morgan Freeman, celebrated actor and thoughtful person, says forget about it. Mitch Landrieu, mayor of ...

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Honoring those who gave all so we can have all

Each year I have the honor of attending the Memorial Day Ceremony at the National Guard Armory that’s ...

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Joe Rogers: The Southern grilling gene

A Jackson friend, Averyell Kessler, recently balked at an email she’d gotten from a cooking site, titled “How ...

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Now hating is self-justifying

“They’re beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we elected king. Armchair warriors often fail ...

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