No one could have anticipated or planned for the Columbia-Marion County Public Library getting its roof torn off by a tornado on Dec. 16.
Hooray for the Mississippi Board of Education in rejecting a recommendation that it eliminate the U.S. History exam from the state tests students are required to take.
Mississippi Today recently published an in-depth look at the state’s restitution centers, or at least as in-depth as reporters can get without being let inside the four facilities.
At the risk of irking Mississippi’s schoolteachers, we pose this question: If there is not enough money in the state treasury to both raise the pay of teachers and raise the pay of prison guards, which is more important right now?
We’d say the latter.
Many county officials in Mississippi received raises in a 2019 bill passed by the Legislature. That included 5% more for chancery and circuit clerks, plus additional fees for constables and coroners.
There will be a lot of changes, starting next week, coming to the Mississippi Capitol. Among them will be a new governor, a new lieutenant governor and several new committee chairs.
It is annoying when some people complain that cattle are a huge contributor to global warming because of their methane “emissions.” Of course, that observation usually leads to the call for people to reduce or eliminate their beef consumption, which would mean the world would need less cattle and the planet would thus be saved.
A great American died recently, one whom most of us have never heard of but whose work may have saved our lives or the lives of those near to us.
Dr. John B. Robbins developed a vaccine against Hib meningitis that some estimate has saved 7 million lives since it was licensed in 1989, according to an obituary in the New York Times.
For decades, Mississippi has tried — at least ostensibly — to shield its judiciary from partisan politics. But that shield is being pulled away, to the detriment of public trust in the impartiality in the bench.
I quickly realized Monday I was not in Kansas, and I did not end up in Oz. However, there was a tornado.
