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