Opinion

It’s the holiday season and boy am I ready for it

It’s time for holiday traditions to start peeking their heads out from whatever plastic storage bin or cardboard…

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Funeral songs: Which one would you pick for yours?

Colby McMorris is only 32, but he’s been working at his family’s funeral home for half his life.…

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Mississippi remains outlier in early voting

From microwave popcorn to digital grocery shopping to telemedicine, our citizens worship time and the technology that saves…

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Initiative 65 is all about money, not your health

There’s a $14 billion dollar industry that wants to sell their product in Mississippi. It’s backed by powerful…

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Volunteers on hold: Closed doors and memories of bingo at Brook Manor

Back before COVID closed doors around here, nursing home residents played bingo like they meant it. So what…

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It’s ‘Déjà vu all over again’ for Mississippi voters

The late New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra would love this one. The 2020 Mississippi U.S. Senate race…

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Saturdays are just not the same without football

Let’s talk some football. My fall Saturday routine is in shambles. Perhaps my favorite time of year is…

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Reed cast long, consequential, complicated shadow

It’s difficult to think of Julia Reed without hearing her raspy, smoky voice — sort of an odd…

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We had one humdinger of a Labor Day

On Labor Day we did as all good Americans do. We labored over household to-do lists. Mine including…

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Therefore, encourage one another with these words

I like sad songs. Maybe it’s because they “say so much,” as Elton John sang. Or maybe it’s…