by Melvin Arrington It’s been said that a novel can often capture what life was like during...
Local Opinion
The Oxford Board of Aldermen will meet tomorrow to discuss whether to allow restaurants to re-open for dine-in service,...
Are you reading this on-line, at home? The answer to that question depends on where you live in...
With a looming special session and all the rush to be “for” or “against” an internet sales...
Governor William Winter was correct when he said: “The only road out of poverty runs past the...
On June 9, 1954, Senator Joe McCarthy’s constant personal attacks and character assassination of many good Americans...
My college music history professor, Dr. James Downey, once proclaimed, “The art of conversation is dead!” For...
We hear Mississippi politicians every day cite statistics about how great things are looking. However, there are...
TAX SHIFT AHEAD – EXIT NOW! Lawmakers are in session in Jackson. Local school districts, property owners,...
Wandering around the Las Vegas Strip with my Kiwi friend, Caleb Thompson, in daylight hours, we crossed...
MAEP School Funding Formula – Change is coming: Is it really fair to declare the Mississippi Adequate...
Last week, I filed for an emergency restraining order in Hinds County Circuit Court to require the...
We are appalled by the University of Mississippi’s decision to continue support for the Lafayette County Metro...
James Thomas is so busy wrapping himself in the mantle of virtue he doesn’t bother to understand...
I’m pleased Peter Wirth has chosen to continue this important debate over Confederate iconography and its place...
The powerful school privatization lobbyists and A.L.E.C. have spoken, and your elected majority leaders have listened. These...
There is a freight train barreling through the marble corridors of the Capitol at 90 mph, and...
James Thomas calls my essay “trash.” Well, that’s his opinion. He asserts that its “basic gist” is...
As I sat at Big Bad Breakfast flipping through the pages of The Local Voice, I came...
For months there has sat on my desk an appeal form the Southern Poverty Law Center, asking...