News
Beware of daylily plant bug
Occasionally gardeners will notice mid-sized (roughly ¼ inch long), orange and black bugs feeding on buds and blooms of daylilies. Often these are not very ...
Staff Reports, Author at Prentiss Headlight
Opinion
A surprising week in Mississippi politics revolves around entrenched division, apathy
From the U.S. Capitol to rural polling places in Mississippi in midterm congressional primaries, it has been a week of surprises and political drama that ...
by Staff Reports, Thursday, June 16, 2022 7:51 am
Opinion
Readers ponder the future of how we pay for future road and bridge maintenance
After a recent column on the soaring retail cost of gasoline and the concomitant impact those prices have on related fuel taxes and the proliferation ...
by Staff Reports, Wednesday, June 8, 2022 9:19 am
Opinion
Gas price nightmare exacerbated by stagnant gas taxes impact on future maintenance
American taxpayers, who are also gasoline customers, are in an economic vise on questions of the cost of gasoline and the tax revenue gasoline purchases ...
by Staff Reports, Wednesday, May 25, 2022 1:13 pm
Opinion
Mistrust, political division, and isolation threaten more than elections, economic policies
Pew Center Research reflects a widely shared belief in this nation that distrust of the federal government and distrust among fellow Americans is a fundamental ...
by Staff Reports, Friday, May 20, 2022 8:09 am
Opinion
A vital record: Journal article chronicles path to changing Mississippi’s state flag
In any given publication since 1939, The Journal of Mississippi History has been an invaluable record of the institutional memory of the state of Mississippi. But few ...
by Staff Reports, Wednesday, April 27, 2022 7:44 am
Opinion
Mississippi poultry producers got early lessons in global trade conflicts with Russia
Forget for a moment, if you can, the horrible human cost of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set aside the sad visages of the dead ...
by Staff Reports, Wednesday, March 23, 2022 2:31 pm
Opinion
Will Mississippi voters regain the ability to engage in the voter referendum process?
As the 2022 regular session of the Mississippi Legislature moves forward, the question of the future of medical marijuana in the Magnolia State remains in ...
by Staff Reports, Friday, January 14, 2022 9:46 am
Opinion
California, Massachusetts laws could raise food prices far beyond their state’s borders
Voters in California and Massachusetts have directly passed laws regulating the conditions in which pigs, hens, and calves are housed in industrial agriculture production facilities ...
by Staff Reports, Monday, December 27, 2021 12:28 pm
Opinion
Sen. Inouye was a product of a nation striving to unite, defend freedoms, heal differences
One of the more meaningful events during the observances last week of the 80th anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941, attacks on Pearl Harbor was the ...