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Chaney: Historic funding strengthens rural fire protection across Mississippi for another 30 years

By Mike Chaney - Magnolia Tribune, READ MORE > 365 Reads
On Tue, 10/21/2025 - 03:14 PM

Below is a political opinion column by Mike Chaney:

State Fire Marshall and Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney touts passage of Senate Bill 2802 during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session.

Zetus Volunteer Fire Department (VFD) in Lincoln County has long operated on the principle that if you do it right the first time, you won’t have to go back and fix it later.

Chaney: Historic funding strengthens rural fire protection across Mississippi for another 30 years

By Mike Chaney - Magnolia Tribune, READ MORE > 365 Reads
On Tue, 10/21/2025 - 03:14 PM

Below is a political opinion column by Mike Chaney:

State Fire Marshall and Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney touts passage of Senate Bill 2802 during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session.

Zetus Volunteer Fire Department (VFD) in Lincoln County has long operated on the principle that if you do it right the first time, you won’t have to go back and fix it later.

Score one for Iceland: LSU’s Sveinsson wins Fallen Oak Invitational title

By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, READ MORE > 524 Reads
On Tue, 10/21/2025 - 03:10 PM

Many of the most accomplished college golfers in America gathered here over the weekend for the Fallen Oak Collegiate Invitational. So, naturally, the individual champion hails from about 3,700 miles away in Gardabaer, Iceland.

LSU sophomore Gunnlaugur Arni Sveinsson, the world’s No. 11 ranked amateur golfer, shot rounds of 66, 70 and 67 for a 54-hole total of 13-under-par 203 for the victory, one shot better than Alabama’s William Jennings.

Reddit AMA recap: How does Mississippi spend its opioid settlement dollars?

By Mississippi Today Staff, READ MORE > 275 Reads
On Tue, 10/21/2025 - 02:42 PM

Mental health reporter Allen Siegler recently published a series of stories investigating how Mississippi’s elected officials have been managing about $124 million of Mississippi opioid settlement money — money that the state is receiving as a result of lawsuits against companies that profited off a devastating overdose crisis.

His findings were staggering.

Harrison: US Supreme Court considers gutting Voting Rights Act that has transformed Mississippi

By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, READ MORE > 254 Reads
On Tue, 10/21/2025 - 02:38 PM

Below is a political opinion column by Bobby Harrison:

Mississippi has one of the nation’s highest percentage of Black state legislators.

That should not be a surprise since Mississippi has the highest percentage of Black people of any state in the nation.

Harrison: US Supreme Court considers gutting Voting Rights Act that has transformed Mississippi

By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, READ MORE > 254 Reads
On Tue, 10/21/2025 - 02:38 PM

Below is a political opinion column by Bobby Harrison:

Mississippi has one of the nation’s highest percentage of Black state legislators.

That should not be a surprise since Mississippi has the highest percentage of Black people of any state in the nation.

James Moore holds a log that records opioid-related deaths in the area as he talks about its significance at Moore’s Bicycle Shop, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Hattiesburg, Miss. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today

Moore: Father reflects on his son’s overdose death and ways to battle opioid crisis

By James Moore - Mississippi Today, READ MORE > 400 Reads
On Tue, 10/21/2025 - 11:18 AM

Below is an opinion column by James Moore:

Editor’s note: October is National Drug Prevention Month, making an essay on the ongoing opioid epidemic both timely and pertinent. Mississippi Today Ideas publishes guest essays on the issues impacting the state.

Moore: Father reflects on his son’s overdose death and ways to battle opioid crisis

By James Moore - Mississippi Today, READ MORE > 400 Reads
On Tue, 10/21/2025 - 11:18 AM

Below is an opinion column by James Moore:

Wicker: Annual defense legislation passed by Senate good for Mississippi, nation

By Senator Roger Wicker, READ MORE > 249 Reads
On Mon, 10/20/2025 - 03:14 PM

Below is a political opinion column by Roger Wicker:

U.S. Senator Roger Wicker touts Mississippi’s role in the nation’s defense.

This month, during a period of intense disagreement between Republicans and Democrats, something encouraging happened.

U.S. senators from both parties came together and passed our draft of Congress’ annual national security bill. Seventy-seven out of 100 lawmakers voted in favor of this important bill, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which sets policy and salaries for the U.S. armed forces.

Wicker: Annual defense legislation passed by Senate good for Mississippi, nation

By Senator Roger Wicker, READ MORE > 249 Reads
On Mon, 10/20/2025 - 03:14 PM

Below is a political opinion column by Roger Wicker:

U.S. Senator Roger Wicker touts Mississippi’s role in the nation’s defense.

This month, during a period of intense disagreement between Republicans and Democrats, something encouraging happened.

Wooten: Journalist/former Guardsman details difference in University of Mississippi National Guard deployment and current actions by Trump

By Terry Wooten - Mississippi Today, READ MORE > 172 Reads
On Mon, 10/20/2025 - 02:58 PM

Below is a political opinion column by Terry Wooten:

Editor’s note: This essay is part of Mississippi Today Ideas, a platform for thoughtful Mississippians to share fact-based ideas about our state’s past, present and future. You can read more about the section here.

Wooten: Journalist/former Guardsman details difference in University of Mississippi National Guard deployment and current actions by Trump

By Terry Wooten - Mississippi Today, READ MORE > 172 Reads
On Mon, 10/20/2025 - 02:58 PM

Below is a political opinion column by Terry Wooten:

Friedeman: The good prayer life? Keep bothering God

By Matt Friedeman - Magnolia Tribune, READ MORE > 282 Reads
On Mon, 10/20/2025 - 12:38 PM

Below is a religion column by Matt Friedeman:

Most of what is enduring in our world requires persistence and faithfulness.

A lot is mysterious about this thing called Christian spirituality, and much is not in the least bit mysterious. Case in point: as regards our prayer lives—how can we discern what pleases Him and what does not?

Friedeman: The good prayer life? Keep bothering God

By Matt Friedeman - Magnolia Tribune, READ MORE > 282 Reads
On Mon, 10/20/2025 - 12:38 PM

Below is a religion column by Matt Friedeman:

Most of what is enduring in our world requires persistence and faithfulness.

St. John: So, I guess this is it

By Robert St. John, READ MORE > 277 Reads
On Mon, 10/20/2025 - 12:18 PM

Robert St. John says his wife reminded him recently that most of what lasts in life isn’t what we plan—it’s what grows around us while we’re busy working.

In Focus: When Will Black Lives Matter to Blacks?…

By Steven Jarrod Smith, READ MORE > 253 Reads
On Fri, 10/17/2025 - 09:50 PM

As another weekend passes in Mississippi, the echoes of gunfire haunt our Black communities—especially at homecomings, football games, and cherished gatherings meant for celebration, unity, and pride. Instead of joy, we find grief: mothers screaming, children injured, families shattered by bullets that did not come from outsiders, but from our own neighbors.

Opinion: No matter what anyone says, peace in the Middle East is difficult to envision

READ MORE > 399 Reads
On Fri, 10/17/2025 - 06:48 PM

President Trump deserves great credit for his administration’s work to stop the destruction in the Gaza Strip and to free the last Israeli hostages, held captive for two years after the terrorist attack on civilians in 2023.
The president, who was in both Israel and Egypt on Monday to celebrate the achievement, predicted the end of the war between Israel and Hamas represents “the historic dawn of a new Middle East.”

Opinion: No matter what anyone says, peace in the Middle East is difficult to envision

READ MORE > 399 Reads
On Fri, 10/17/2025 - 06:48 PM

Washington State’s 2,000-mile trip is par for course in college sports today

By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, READ MORE > 641 Reads
On Thu, 10/16/2025 - 03:18 PM

The Washington State Cougars are flying more than 2,000 miles across the continent to play Ole Miss Saturday for what will be the Rebels’ homecoming game. That’s a long, long way to travel for what appears to be a gross mismatch.

Arrington: Historian looks at Mississippi Medicaid through Rep. Robert Clark’s early advocacy

By Derrion Arrington - Mississippi Today, READ MORE > 213 Reads
On Thu, 10/16/2025 - 03:14 PM

Below is a political opinion column by Derrion Arrington:

Editor’s note: Historian Derrion Arrington reflects on early positions taken by Robert Clark, who in 1967 became the first Black Mississippian elected to the state Legislature in the 20th century, and how those issues championed by Clark are being addressed today.

Mississippi’s struggles with Medicaid are deeply tied to the state’s broader history of social, racial and political tension.

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