The votes are in and the third winner of Yoknapatawpha Arts Council & The Local Voice‘s “Social...
Randy Weeks
Welcome to the second week showcase for the Social Distancing Song Writing Challenge! We’ve been enjoying the...
I am blessed. I know it in my head; I know it in my heart. I don’t...
I drove around Oxford a bit last weekend. The weather was amazing and I have a convertible...
By the time this issue of The Local Voice hits the streets, no one may have a...
My good friend, Leon, a very inciteful man, doesn’t exactly cotton to holidays. When Leon was a...
We have met the enemy and he is us. –Pogo A certain preacher always prays long and...
Dear Governor Reeves: Congratulations on being elected as Mississippi’s next Governor. In full disclosure, I did not...
It was around 5 pm on Sunday, January 5, 2020, the twelfth day of Christmas. The sun...
The night of the Tacky Townie party at Proud Larry’s, the upstairs bar at City Grocery was...
On Monday, November 18 at 6:20 a.m., my phone rang. There was nothing all that unusual about...
The holidays are upon us and they are legion. We know about the biggies, but there are...
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, a black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up...
Why in the world would we expect September to be more temperate than August? Maybe since Labor...
A few days ago, someone called me out on something. It upset me so much that when...
Like it or not, they’re coming back. It won’t be long until we hear the tromp-tromp of...
There are some strange things going on in this election of the next President of these semi-united...
Sitting on The Balcony as I do, people talk to me. They tell me things, personal things,...
I grew up as an only child with two older sisters and one older brother. I spent...
Saturday night, June 1, 2019, @ 8:00 p.m. I wasn’t feeling all that spry. Sinus infection. So...