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By Russ Latino - Magnolia Tribune, READ MORE > 200 Reads
On Mon, 07/28/2025 - 03:06 PM

Below is an opinion column by Russ Latino:

Food Network star Anne Burrell’s suicide shines a light on a growing epidemic. People who walk among us are battling demons unknown.

St. John: Lessons between courses

By Robert St. John, READ MORE > 289 Reads
On Mon, 07/28/2025 - 02:14 PM

Robert St. John says there is no meal, no city, no moment more fulfilling than the quiet joy of knowing your children are becoming exactly who they’re meant to be.

My wife’s off on a girls’ trip, and my son happened to have two days off work. That was all the excuse I needed. I booked a flight, packed a bag, and headed north. A couple of days in Chicago with him? That’s time I’ll always take.

Can Huff find early success for Southern Miss football?

By Parrish Alford - Magnolia Tribune, READ MORE > 934 Reads
On Mon, 07/28/2025 - 02:04 PM

This season Southern Miss will be equal parts football team and lab experiment.

Sometimes, the things we hate we also love.

The NCAA Transfer Portal began in 2018, Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) payments for college players three years later.

Together they’ve dramatically changed the landscape of college football, not for the better many college coaches and voices say.

Maybe we can get a yacht building company subsidized on the Rez.

Editorial Cartoon: Mississippians will be helping Jeff Bezos buy more yachts

By Wyatt Emmerich, READ MORE > 367 Reads
On Fri, 07/25/2025 - 05:26 PM

For the last 15 years, the consumption of electricity and the price of electricity has been stable and in line with border states.
That’s about to change big time as Entergy Mississippi plans to spend $3 billion to feed the new Amazon data centers, which will slurp up almost as much electricity as everyone else on the grid.

Salter: Jefferson’s gunboats, Nixon’s inflation-busting created Trump’s $9 billion in rescissions

By Sid Salter - Contributing Columnist, READ MORE > 229 Reads
On Thu, 07/24/2025 - 04:54 PM

Below is a political opinion column by Sid Salter:

Columnist Sid Salter says Trump’s plan to make funding cuts at NPB, NPR, and USAID is a rare presidential move, but certainly not a strategy of his creation.

Much of the legitimate news commentary and almost all of the social media missives praising or damning last week’s congressional approval of President Donald Trump’s $9 billion rescission package at least inferred that Trump was engaging in unprecedented actions and expanding presidential powers in a nefarious manner.

Salter: Jefferson’s gunboats, Nixon’s inflation-busting created Trump’s $9 billion in rescissions

By Sid Salter - Contributing Columnist, READ MORE > 229 Reads
On Thu, 07/24/2025 - 04:54 PM

Below is a political opinion column by Sid Salter:

Columnist Sid Salter says Trump’s plan to make funding cuts at NPB, NPR, and USAID is a rare presidential move, but certainly not a strategy of his creation.

Ross: Caught in the Epstein web

By Kimberly Ross - Magnolia Tribune, READ MORE > 223 Reads
On Thu, 07/24/2025 - 01:50 PM

Below is a political opinion column by Kimberly Ross:

The fallout from the Epstein files is a reminder that political capital is never more important than a deliberate and unrushed search for truth.

If you say the name Jeffrey Epstein, most people who are aware of him will have a strong reaction. After all, the well-known financier is well-known for something else entirely: his role as a predator.

Ross: Caught in the Epstein web

By Kimberly Ross - Magnolia Tribune, READ MORE > 223 Reads
On Thu, 07/24/2025 - 01:50 PM

Below is a political opinion column by Kimberly Ross:

The fallout from the Epstein files is a reminder that political capital is never more important than a deliberate and unrushed search for truth.

Still an ‘Okie from Muskogee’

By CHRISTOPHER REVES, READ MORE > 1,116 Reads
On Thu, 07/24/2025 - 11:04 AM

There was a song by Merle Haggard that was written in response to the anti-war songs of the 1960s and ’70s, “Okie from Muskogee.” There were all sorts of things that the ‘Okie’ didn't do, but the first thing was that he didn't smoke marijuana. This was a response to the hippie and anti-war sentiments and songs that permeated the landscape during the Vietnam years.

Still an ‘Okie from Muskogee’

By CHRISTOPHER REVES, READ MORE > 1,116 Reads
On Thu, 07/24/2025 - 11:04 AM

Opinion: Surprising numbers on immigrant deportations

READ MORE > 188 Reads
On Thu, 07/24/2025 - 10:20 AM

If reporting from NBC News is to be believed, President Trump’s pledges to deport record numbers of illegal immigrants contain more bark than bite.
Video of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arresting suspected illegals are all over television and the internet. “But here is the surprising fact behind the mayhem,” wrote Fareed Zakaria in a Washington Post column. “Donald Trump has deported fewer people per month than Barack Obama did, and barely more than Joe Biden during a similar span last year, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data obtained by NBC News.”

Opinion: Surprising numbers on immigrant deportations

READ MORE > 188 Reads
On Thu, 07/24/2025 - 10:20 AM

Trump is a con man

By Glynn Kegley, READ MORE > 286 Reads
On Thu, 07/24/2025 - 10:10 AM

Yes, the generation of soldiers that fought in WW2 was a great generation. But greatest might be hyperbole. 60% of them were drafted, and many of those that weren't drafted joined the Navy to keep from being drafted into the Army - many said so, even, including my father. In fact, he encouraged me to do likewise, and I ignored his advice to my detriment.

Trump is a con man

By Glynn Kegley, READ MORE > 286 Reads
On Thu, 07/24/2025 - 10:10 AM

Glad we’re rid of the ex-mayor

By Jay Wiener, READ MORE > 280 Reads
On Thu, 07/24/2025 - 10:06 AM

The October 1974 edition of The National Lampoon opened its “New on the March” page:

They've Fired the Sh$%
Heard Round the World
NIXON QUITS

Granting Cole Porter’s observation in “Anything Goes” that

“Good authors too who once
knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose
Anything goes”

Glad we’re rid of the ex-mayor

By Jay Wiener, READ MORE > 280 Reads
On Thu, 07/24/2025 - 10:06 AM

The October 1974 edition of The National Lampoon opened its “New on the March” page:

They've Fired the Sh$%
Heard Round the World
NIXON QUITS

Granting Cole Porter’s observation in “Anything Goes” that

“Good authors too who once
knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose
Anything goes”

Is Trump’s will the people’s will?

By Bill Crawford, READ MORE > 244 Reads
On Thu, 07/24/2025 - 10:02 AM

The U.S. Constitution was our founding fathers’ best effort to create a system where the “will of the people” could prevail. They established a congress of representatives of the people to provide that will. Of course, that only yielded the will of the congressional majority not of all people. Still, that was greatly preferred over the will of a monarch or ambitious president.

Is Trump’s will the people’s will?

By Bill Crawford, READ MORE > 244 Reads
On Thu, 07/24/2025 - 10:02 AM

AI will spur productivity

By Douglas Carswell - Mississippi Center for Public Policy, READ MORE > 191 Reads
On Thu, 07/24/2025 - 09:58 AM

Reading Wyatt Emmerich in the Northside Sun is usually one of the highlights of my week. Erudite and insightful, Wyatt delves into various topics with wit and wisdom. His recent editorial on AI (artificial intelligence), however, seems overly pessimistic.
Wyatt suggested that AI will make us a “nation of morons producing silly fake video memes with huge power bills.”

AI will spur productivity

By Douglas Carswell - Mississippi Center for Public Policy, READ MORE > 191 Reads
On Thu, 07/24/2025 - 09:58 AM

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