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 ...

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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 ...

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Justice Scalia’s words on Second Amendment absolutism are true and prophetic

On the brutal reality of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting – and all the others in our country ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Leaked high court decision puts Mississippi center stage in nation’s abortion debate

As predicted months ago, Mississippi is now the epicenter of America’s divisive, bitter abortion rights debate. The Supreme ...

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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 ...

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Medicaid expansion vote fears linked to failure of ballot initiative fix by the Legislature 

One of the state’s more mainstream conservative business groups last week unveiled a unanimous resolution endorsing Medicaid expansion ...

Opinion

Regular session closing with chambers unable to agree on restoring initiative process

Since 1992 and at earlier points in the state’s history, Mississippi voters have been able to bypass the ...

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Candidate John Arthur 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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