STARKVILLE — How ready were gamblers to return to Mississippi Gulf Coast casinos after COVID and the resulting shutdowns? Read more

States like Texas, Georgia and Florida that have been in the national news recently for efforts that many say will make it more difficult for their citizens to vote still have a long way to go to catch Mississippi. Read more

I couldn’t help but think of Billy McCoy recently as I was traveling back from my family’s vacation. Read more

You will be most successful if you pursue a career that you are able to do. Some jobs do not mentally or physically suit our abilities. Some people find work to do but are only able to maintain their vocational effort until they are 50 or 55 years old. This is fine as many people are able to… Read more

We have always had them among us: fortune tellers, diviners, readers of palms, tarot cards, tea leaves, stars, horoscopes, discerners of animal entrails, calling on gods of wood and stone, and all sorts of other “seers” who have attempted to convince the gullible that they have the power to … Read more

If you wonder what Republicans are accomplishing in Washington, look no further than the Senate Armed Services committee, where a majority of them voted to create the predicate for drafting women into the military. Read more

Give a person a fish and they will eat one meal. Teach a person how to fish and they will eat for a lifetime. Read more

Mississippi could be on the verge of what used to be one of the fiercest spectacles in politics – a speaker’s race. Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Even for the hot and dirty clean-up after two years of absence, it was good to get back to our Neshoba County Fair cabin after last year’s pandemic hiatus. Read more

Mississippi legislators will decide next year whether to keep the state Parole Board as a separate entity or transfer the board’s functions to the Department of Corrections. Read more

People on the far left have become so predictable that their statements are no longer “breaking news.” They would be hilarious if they weren’t outrageous or if they didn’t contribute to the undermining of human rights and freedom in other countries. Read more

No one is trying to topple the Alamo quite yet, but a new revisionist book on the foundational event of Texas history partakes of the iconoclastic spirit of our time. Read more

Chances are that you’ve heard the expression, “nice guys finish last.” Nothing could be further from the truth. This statement is used by many to justify less than ethical treatment of others. Read more

OMAHA, Neb. – What does winning the championship game in the 2021 College World Series mean to the average Mississippi State fan? In a word, everything. Read more

‘Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” – Pete Townshend in The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again” Read more

There’s a big difference between wisdom and knowledge. Understanding this is a significant factor in how much you accomplish. What you know, and how you apply it, can be very different. Being wise is much more than being knowledgeable. Read more

Mississippi’s agribusiness community and the state’s labor organizations both saw a major Supreme Court decision issued in a California case that centers on the intersection of union access to private property in union organizing activities. The case is styled Cedar Point Nursery and Fowler … Read more

Mississippians might need to buckle up for the next several months. The issues pending before the Mississippi Legislature could be some of the most impactful in recent history. Read more

‘We loathe mass incarceration. We loathe police brutality. But most of us have absolutely no idea how to address the critical flaws in our judicial system.” – Shaun King Read more

BOONEVILLE — In the pristine sanctuary of the lovely Gaston Baptist Church – a rural church in northwest Prentiss County roughly triangulated between Booneville, Rienzi, Thrasher and Jumpertown – family, friends, and political associates of the late Mississippi House Speaker William J. “Bill… Read more

In the parlance of Mississippi Supreme Court justices, the word “shall” means maybe when it comes to fully funding public school districts. But when justices are talking about giving themselves a pay raise, “shall” means shall – or got to get ’er done. Read more

“Tell the world. Tell this to everybody, wherever they are. Watch the skies everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies.” – Journalist Ned Scott character in “The Thing from Another World” (1951). Read more

The Supreme Court’s recent decision, Fulton v. Philadelphia, is justifiably getting mixed reviews. Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris just returned from Guatemala where she discussed the “root cause” of the post-election “surge” of “migrants” to our southern border. Harris said, “People leave home ... because they don’t have opportunities there to fulfill their basic needs like feeding their ch… Read more

Everyone travels along some path. There are many roads to choose from. Roads can lead to success, failure, or nowhere. The road you are now on is up to you. If you are not happy where you are headed, select a different road. Read more

Gov. Tate Reeves is adamant that he will not call a special session to enact medical marijuana and to fix the ballot initiative process until legislative leadership reaches a consensus on how to deal with the separate but related issues. Read more

STARKVILLE — The decision of Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves to tap his own chief of staff as the new leader of the Mississippi Department of Transportation bodes well for an organization that has seen more than its share of discord over the last two decades. Read more

“Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful to others. The same applies when you are stupid.”—Ricky Gervais Read more

A friend of mine who lives in Murphy, N.C. recently traveled to Tallulah Falls in North Georgia and posted about it on social media. Tallulah Gorge State Park is located in Rabun County, about 70 miles south of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I don’t hear many people in the area in … Read more

A New Jersey school district has voted to eliminate “the names of all religious and secular holidays from the school calendar … opting for the more generic description ‘Day Off.’” You can guess the reason. They used those increasingly popular words – “inclusive” and “equitable.” Read more

You already know the problems created by physical clutter. It takes a long time to find anything. Stuff gets lost. Efficiency drops. The mess grows on its own. Mental clutter affects you in the same way. You can’t remember things, your emotional state is dragged down, and effectiveness drops. Read more

Over the last two years, a global pandemic rocked the international economy and the civilized world withdrew and in great measure shut down for a time. Read more

Gov. Tate Reeves, House Speaker Philip Gunn and others who tout eliminating Mississippi’s personal income tax as a way to reverse the state’s population loss must explain DeSoto County. Read more

In 2020 over 64 million Americans were collecting Social Security. Read more

Mississippians have been fighting over what would seem the very straightforward power of state voters to bypass the Mississippi Legislature and directly propose state constitutional changes for the better part of a century. Read more

In 1996, former Gov. Kirk Fordice said the debate over whether to confirm the four white males he appointed to the Mississippi college board should not be a black and white issue but a matter of competence. Read more

“Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming Read more

In a state that gave former Republican President Donald Trump 57.8 percent of the state’s 2016 vote for president and 57.6 percent in the 2020 presidential election, Republican Third District U.S. Rep. Michael Guest found the courage to join 35 other Republican members of Congress in voting … Read more

As I write, last night our high school graduated just under 150 seniors. So another end of a school year has come. And what a school year it was. I have heard veteran educators comment that they had never lived through quite a year like this one in their entire career experience thus far unt… Read more

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When it comes to the provision of public health care in Mississippi, the partisan political considerations have changed little since Democratic former President Barack Obama signed his Affordable Care Act into law. Read more

The state’s political leaders who are cutting off federal coronavirus-related federal unemployment benefits could provide needy Mississippians cash assistance through another federal program. Read more

In 2001, House Speaker Tim Ford of Baldwyn supported the plan of fellow Democrats to place much of suburban Jackson in a congressional district with northeast Mississippi. Read more

In his “interim” national security document issued in March, President Joe Biden sounded sharp concerns about China, and he ramped up that tough talk in his first address to a joint session of Congress in April. Read more

A very important piece of legislation flew under the radar this session and was signed into law just as quietly. Read more

Health care advocates, many health care providers and others who desperately want to see the state expand Medicaid to cover primarily the working poor blame Gov. Tate Reeves for blocking the effort. Read more

Taking an ironic cue from the “sanctuary” movement used by mostly liberal communities that decided to take stands against enforcement and implementation of federal and state immigration laws and policies with which they disagreed, the Second Amendment Sanctuary movement was born in recent years. Read more

‘They’re our next-door neighbors and you can actually see Russian from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.” – Sarah Palin Read more

If Joe Biden wanted to spend massively in response to a nearly unprecedented public health emergency, he was elected too late. Read more

The Central Intelligence Agency is always looking to recruit new agents and advertising is one way it has done so in the past. The difference this time is in a newly created series of recruitment videos that reflect the spirit of the age in which we live, rather than appealing to abilities a… Read more