Dear Editor, Recently, our students, teachers, and staff spearheaded the effort to come to the aid of fellow Mississippi students who are in dire need of safe drinking...

By State Treasurer David McRae September is College Savings Month. While I have written previously about Mississippi's two college savings plans (MACS, which...

Dear Editor, I am not a Wayne County native, but I have lived here and had connections here since 1979 (43 years). I am glad to see Wayne County prospering; however,...

While reflecting on the events of Sept. 11, 2001 and immediately following, many of us have relived our thoughts, emotions and not a few resolutions. Those events spurred...

My mother-in-law's funeral was last month. I will miss Dottie Cole. I don't think we ever had a cross word over 25 years. As Ginny would say, "My mother has the biggest...

By Pamela Lang Prestage, MS.ED, MPA Fifty-year-old Rankin County resident Cissy Jones smoked menthol cigarettes for more than 20 years. "I started when I was 16,"...

Two weeks ago, I wrote that the Jackson water crisis "has been one of the most colossal municipal government failures in the history of our country." Well, finally the...

There is an old saying that you never want to watch sausage being made. It especially applies when talking politics and government. There are some things best left...