Jack Nicklaus, famously, holds the record for winning the most professional golf majors with 18. However, Nicklaus has often said he considers himself to have won 20 majors because of his two U.S. Amateur victories.
Richard Roberson minces no words when he hears people argue that there’s no reason to expand Medicaid to the working poor since they can already get free medical care at hospital emergency rooms if they can’t afford to pay.
STARKVILLE – The Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Scott County and other Mississippi locales where there are large-scale poultry processing operations are more than headlines to me.
Two recent tweets from Mississippi’s Republican governor candidates say it all about who to support in the Aug. 27 runoff.
I turned 61 last week. I’m still alive. That statement may seem weird to younger folks, but as a male over the age of 60, I have to get used to the fact that I could keel over dead of a heart attack any minute.
It’s easy to understand the frustration of Marion County residents as they drive down pothole-filled roads on a daily basis and have become so accustomed to them that they know exactly how to swerve to avoid them, as if it’s second nature.
STARKVILLE – It’s been 20 years since mass shooting gun violence became part of the national lexicon in America after the Columbine, Colorado, massacre.
A run-in this weekend with angry yellow jackets under a tree outside my house caused me to cascade rapidly through the three stages of post-sting grief:
1. How do I stop the pain and swelling?
2. What’s the least humane way possible to destroy these evil creatures’ nest?
STARKVILLE — If you need a wise, reasonable soul to adjudicate a drunken misdemeanor bar fight, sort out right from wrong in a traffic ticket, or even to officiate at a wedding, the average Mississippi justice court judge can be your huckleberry.
In Marion County two big events are happening next week: primary elections and the opening of school. Of course references to both of those are on the front page, but I am still going to offer my two cents in these matters.
