Just Keep Going
The biggest lesson I learned in 2012 came to me with only a week left in the year. I'd been processing or decompressing--depending on the day--for a couple of weeks.
Editor's Note
The Wedding Ordeal
I'm not sure if you've noticed, but women can get a little worked up over weddings. In fact, I don't know if there is anything that turns sane women into …
Stranger Things
Not expanding Medicaid could have disastrous results for the rural hospitals that serve many of the state's most vulnerable residents.
How to Change the World
Tamra Gordon was tired of watching the revolving door of abusers and their victims cycle through Clinton's courtrooms.
Stinker Quote of the Week: "Lunatics"
Setting aside how much that would cost, research has shown that more guns equal more gun deaths, whether by suicide or homicide.
'Keep on Pushing'
Big Roscoe: "Welcome to Clubb Chicken Wing's 'Day After New Year Hot Wing Happy Hour.' Regular customers returned here to wind down after partying New Year's Eve and day."
Editor's Note
A Kinder, Gentler Union
Picking on food stamps has long been a way to gather votes from people who don't bother to pay attention to who is poor and why (call them the 47-percenters).
Governor: Don't Obstruct Obamacare
Medicaid expansion in the states under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare or ACA, is scheduled to take effect in 2014.
Stinker Quote of the Week: "Consequences"
We'd love to take Sen. Wicker at his word—but this is the kind of political white-noise statement that uses a lot of words to say nothing much at all.
Get Back to Work, Congress
Last Thursday, Republican House Majority Leader Rep. John Boehner sent his party home and effectively adjourned the U.S. House of Representatives for the holidays.
Address the Mental-Health Crisis
Like everyone in the nation, Mississippi Families as Allies, a grassroots, family-led organization for children's mental health, is stunned and saddened by the atrocity at Sandy Hook Elementary School in …
Hosemann's Data Prove Him Wrong
Bad public policy, like bad personal decisions, takes a lot of justification to get folks in your corner.
Stinker Quote of the Week: "Carnage"
Good grief. Huckabee is wrong on the law and wrong theologically.
Prayer, Preparation and Patience
As we approach a new year preceded by events such as the Mayan prediction of end of the world, politicians arguing about the fiscal cliff, aftermath of a mall shooting, …
Attention Walmart Shoppers
Walmart's "chintzy" attitude toward the wages and benefits of its workers isn't news. What may be news to many, however, is just how bad it is for workers at Walmart …
Editor's Note
Where There's A Will ...
I understand well that cycles of poverty originate from historic events that, if not equalized, create generations of people who cannot defeat the fate of their elders.
Making Our Children Whole
Parental selfishness was never more prevalent than when pro-life advocates protested in front of Jackson-area schools.
Time to Invest in Workforce Health
Mississippi's Republican Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney sees few redeeming features of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.
Stinker Quote of the Week: "Teenagers"
This is a classic "blame the victim" statement. Bryant was speaking at an event concerning Mississippi's teen birth rate, which is the highest in the nation.
