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Don’t undermine scientific discovery  — ever, but especially now

While the pandemic is by no means over, Covid-19 isn’t the only threat to public health we face.…

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Attending the Masters was an incredible experience

We saw the swing but were far enough up the number one fairway that we couldn’t hear the…

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Ukraine’s suffering reminds us of our blessings

There are so many disturbing images coming out of Ukraine.  It is just overwhelming to see all the…

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Eaves didn’t win, but had few rivals as a populist campaigner 

Like Ross Barnett, Jim Buck Ross, Robert “Blowtorch” Mason, and J.P. Coleman before him, highly successful trial lawyer…

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Thankful for making strides in health and in life

I lingered over coffee as nighttime cobwebs slowly lifted. After my second cup my plans for the day…

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Wise words shared by Uncle George

The phrase “Man’s inhumanity to man” is first documented in a Robert Burns poem.  Inhumanity is defined as…

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Spring break offers microcosm of life

My column last Saturday was more than just a fun exercise in creative writing for me about a…

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Join a BBB workshop leadership, service

The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council (YAC) and the Oxford-Lafayette County Economic Development Foundation (EDF) will present a Big Bad…

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Rank-and-file legislators have no influence in budgeting process

Conferencing, the strange period of the legislative session, has begun — a time when rank-and-file members have little…

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Lawmakers could force local officials to raise property taxes

The Mississippi Legislature may end the 2022 session taking credit for a historic tax cut while leaving local…

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Take time to celebrate Vietnam Veterans Day

Celebrated every March 29, Vietnam Veterans Day is set aside as a day for Americans to honor the…

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We don’t have to walk alone

The brisk March wind whistles through the eves on the house and the chimes on the back porch…

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Join the Arts Day 2022 celebration

In an era in which technology, mobility, and mass communication have tended to create a composite national culture,…

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Close the skies, save Ukraine 

On March 6, my op-ed “America Must Support Ukraine in its Fight for Freedom” was published in The…

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A healing Spring Break

Ole Miss’ Spring Break stirred thoughts of a much-needed therapeutic respite of mine a few years ago. After…

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Spring signals return to garden and its bounty

Now that it’s spring, we want to get out and dig in the dirt, plant some flowers, and…

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Harris family cast an impactful shadow in state’s journalism 

Third-generation Mississippi newspaper publisher William Henry (Billy) Harris Jr., 70, died March 1 at North Mississippi Medical Center…

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Slow and steady wins the race

In this absolutely lovely time of year when the trees begin to bud out and the temperatures dance…

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It’s Easy Being Green (on St. Patrick’s Day)

Have you ever noticed how some groupings of people (professions, ethnic groups, special interests, etc.) get a week…

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In spring, this man’s fancy turns to cars

According to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Locksley Hall,” “In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts…

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Spring break is on the horizon

Spring is on the horizon.  How do I know this?  Well, here comes daylight saving time, a sure…

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Surviving ballot initiative measure a compromise

State Sen. John Polk, R-Hattiesburg, the chairman of the Senate Accountability, Efficiency and Transparency Committee, kept observers wondering…