Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
— Robert Frost
The artificial intelligence in my phone urged me to take the most time-efficient route Friday after work as I was leaving for a visit to my in-laws’ house in Tupelo.
If you’re interested about the moon, this is your month to watch television. Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and many TV channels are full of programs about the event.
STARKVILLE — The death of retired University of Mississippi historian David Sansing is an event that should give all Mississippians pause, for we have lost one of the great, important voices urging our state to move forward.
It took me a while after I became an adult to actually register to vote and pay attention to politics, whether it be at the national level or locally.
Mississippi politics may have a sketchy track record about producing good public policy, but at least you can say it always makes for entertaining theater.
The latest act in that long-running saga came this week in the race for governor.
Monday morning, following the success of Freedom Fest on Saturday, I read an article by Quint Studer, author of “Building A Vibrant Community.” Entitled “Freedom Takes Teamwork,” he applied lessons from the way the founding fathers of the United States worked together toward independence and the formation of our country to how communities today
Labor force participation rate doesn’t sound exciting, does it? And most people don’t pay attention to it as much as more popular economic measures like unemployment rate or sales tax collections.
An entertaining fireworks display Saturday night capped another successful Freedom Fest. It was an impressive show for a city the size of Columbia, and organizers and the public should rightly feel proud.
Civil asset forfeiture allows the government to confiscate property on the grounds that it is connected to a crime — without ever convicting someone of the crime. In court, a lower burden of proof applies in these civil cases than in criminal cases, even when valuable property such as the vehicle you drive to work is at stake.
Those who know me know that I love my country. I love that we are free and have freedoms not afforded to most countries in this world, including the right to disagree.
