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Friedeman: Making disciples in Lagos, Nigeria

By Matt Friedeman - Magnolia Tribune, READ MORE > 276 Reads
On Tue, 02/10/2026 - 08:38 AM

Below is a religion column by Matt Friedeman:

Life is hard here. And yet the Christian leaders are largely ebullient and eager to see what God might do through their ministries in the challenge that is Lagos.

Getting off the plane a week ago in Lagos, Nigeria, I was benevolently assaulted with… Africa.

Sanders: Why Mississippi’s workforce future depends on school choice

By Nathan Sanders - Magnolia Tribune, READ MORE > 177 Reads
On Tue, 02/10/2026 - 08:32 AM

Below is an opinion column by Nathan Sanders:

Employers considering long-term investments care deeply about whether a state can produce capable workers year after year. Education policies that improve attainment help answer that question.

Brown and Kimbrell: Judges and lawmakers move to remove restrictions on health care in Mississippi

By Starla Brown and Thomas Kimbrell - Magnolia Tribune, READ MORE > 147 Reads
On Tue, 02/10/2026 - 08:28 AM

Below is a political opinion column by Starla Brown and Thomas Kimbrell:

The implication is clear: exempting facilities and services from CON restrictions will expand access to them.

On January 28, a federal district court struck down Mississippi’s long-standing moratorium on the establishment of certain new health care facilities, calling the forty-year application of the moratorium “irrational.”

St. John: Taproots

By Robert St. John, READ MORE > 556 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 01:58 PM

Robert St. John says sometimes we’re too hard on Mississippi. We know the flaws. We’ve lived with them. But we can’t see the forest for the pine trees, as they say.

Marco had never seen a pine plantation.

Donahoe: A historic opportunity for Mississippi families

By Barrett Donahoe - Magnolia Tribune, READ MORE > 266 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 01:48 PM

Below is an opinion column by Barrett Donahoe:

This is not about politics. It is about students. It is about families, and ensuring that every child—regardless of zip code or income—has access to an education that nurtures both the mind and the heart.

Donahoe: A historic opportunity for Mississippi families

By Barrett Donahoe - Magnolia Tribune, READ MORE > 266 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 01:48 PM

Below is an opinion column by Barrett Donahoe:

Harrison: When sending public funds to private schools, Mississippi history can rhyme

By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, READ MORE > 255 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 01:38 PM

Below is an opinion column by Bobby Harrison:

The effort of Mississippi House leaders and others to expand programs providing public funds to private schools validates the oft-repeated quote that “history may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”

Efforts by Mississippi legislators to send public funds to private schools go back to at least the 1960s.

Harrison: When sending public funds to private schools, Mississippi history can rhyme

By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, READ MORE > 255 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 01:38 PM

Below is an opinion column by Bobby Harrison:

Efforts by Mississippi legislators to send public funds to private schools go back to at least the 1960s.

Ganucheau: The looming return of Jim Crow to America’s Blackest state

By ADAM GANUCHEAU - Mississippi Today, READ MORE > 198 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 12:58 PM

Below is an opinion column by Adam Ganucheau:

How Black representation at every level of government could be gutted if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.

Mississippi’s political system could soon look more like 1966 than 2026, and it’s time to acknowledge the full extent of the greatest threat to the American Experiment in decades

Ganucheau: The looming return of Jim Crow to America’s Blackest state

By ADAM GANUCHEAU - Mississippi Today, READ MORE > 198 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 12:58 PM

Below is an opinion column by Adam Ganucheau:

How Black representation at every level of government could be gutted if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.

Mississippi’s political system could soon look more like 1966 than 2026, and it’s time to acknowledge the full extent of the greatest threat to the American Experiment in decades

We must stand up to the ICE abuses

By Joseph McCain, READ MORE > 181 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 12:04 PM

There are moments in a republic when the noise of slogans must give way to the quiet insistence of conscience.
This is one of them.
We are told, almost daily, that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pursuing the “worst of the worst.” Instead, the machinery of enforcement has turned its iron attention on those who have committed no crime beyond believing, worshiping, and hoping in the wrong direction.

We must stand up to the ICE abuses

By Joseph McCain, READ MORE > 181 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 12:04 PM

Police state tactics, government lies

By Bill Crawford, READ MORE > 255 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:56 AM

“Are we really going to be the Gestapo?” podcaster Joe Rogan asked. “‘Where’s your papers?’ Is that what we’ve come to?”
Uproar over ICE and Border Patrol aggressive tactics has begun to breach President Donald Trump’s fortress.
“Hate to say it, but they are all lying,” posted lifelong Mississippi Republican Pete Perry on Facebook. “Denial of what we have seen, what has been put in front of us – them and us – and ignored and lied about. We saw it. They saw it. And they know we and everyone else have seen the truth.”

Police state tactics, government lies

By Bill Crawford, READ MORE > 255 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:56 AM

Don’t water down school choice bill

By Douglas Carswell - Mississippi Center for Public Policy, READ MORE > 187 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:52 AM

Over the past few years, Mississippi lawmakers have passed some critical conservative reforms. Last year, Mississippi became the first state in America to legislate to eliminate the income tax in 40 years. In 2022, we implemented flat tax reform. A few years before that, we passed important labor market reforms. In 2024, we reformed school funding to get more money into the classroom.
It is thanks to these flagship conservative reforms that Mississippi has enjoyed more economic growth in the past five years than over the previous fifteen combined.

Don’t water down school choice bill

By Douglas Carswell - Mississippi Center for Public Policy, READ MORE > 187 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:52 AM

Do you trust your propaganda?

By Suzannah McGowan, READ MORE > 120 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:36 AM

Spin the truth, spin the youth,
confound the status quo
so they worry, fear and
Not understand
Do you trust your propaganda?
Those who owned the news
knew they could abuse
manipulate disenfranchised discord weaponized with indignant terrified urgency
Do you trust your propaganda?
The personally wounded, entitled,
idealistic, masters of displaced liability
and lacking self accountability
Do you trust your propaganda?
It is us against them, them against us

Do you trust your propaganda?

By Suzannah McGowan, READ MORE > 120 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:36 AM

Good Fences, Clear Lines: Why States Regulate Gaming

By Representative Price Wallace, READ MORE > 634 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:33 AM

Farming teaches lessons that apply far beyond the field. You learn the importance of clear boundaries, responsibility, and staying focused on the

Letter to the Editor

By Glynn Kegley, READ MORE > 121 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:28 AM

Dear Editor:
With all due respect to the one or more state leaders who believe antifa (anTEEfuh) and basement dwelling keyboard warriors are the problem in Minneapolis, they are not. It is clearly the Gestapo like tactics of ICE.
Those leaders are glad we don't have that going on in Mississippi. I am, too, but I know why. They do, too. It is not because we don't have quite a few undocumented residents and a large city with a Democratic mayor. The difference is we have a Trumpublican leadership. Minnesota does not.

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