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Opinion: Wise and Dzielak discuss Delta variant
By Robert Wise and David Dzielak, 138 Reads
Sat, 07/24/2021 - 09:48 AM
Robert Wise: David, we got our most hits on the article about the Delta variant. People are concerned. What’s your update?
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Opinion: Quality journalism is very valuable to our country
By Wyatt Emmerich, 112 Reads
Sat, 07/24/2021 - 12:42 AM
I just returned from the 155th meeting of the Mississippi Press Association (MPA) held at the Golden Nugget in Biloxi.
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Sharing the gospel message with others
By Gary Andrews, 131 Reads
Thu, 07/22/2021 - 05:22 AM
We are living in perilous times. Statistics show that there are many more unchurched people than there are attending any type church.
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A poll about secession
By Jack Ryan, 177 Reads
Thu, 07/22/2021 - 05:10 AM

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Opinion: The silence of the scientists
By Kelley Williams, 4,006 Reads
Fri, 07/02/2021 - 02:46 PM
I don’t always respond to comments. But when I do, it’s usually to dispel groupies’ myths about their demigods - like Dr. Fauci. I’ve been accused of insufficient reverence for the leader of the pandemic* panic band. After all, he’s a media rock star.
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Opinion: Burl Cain on a crusade to reform Mississippi prisons
By Wyatt Emmerich, 1,542 Reads
Wed, 06/30/2021 - 02:55 PM
Burl Cain, the man who is now running Mississippi’s prisons, spoke to our Rotary Club last week. Wow! Was he impressive.
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Is that all there is to a pandemic?
By Kelley Williams, 3,361 Reads
Sat, 06/12/2021 - 03:30 PM
The bubonic plague killed about half the people in Europe in the Middle Ages. It was called the Black Death. Influenza killed about 15% of the world’s population in 1918-19. It was called the Spanish Flu. (John Barry’s The Great Influenza suggests it first appeared in Kansas.) Justinian’s Plague was the first major plague in recorded histor
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Opinion: Bat coming home to roost
By Kelley Williams, 771 Reads
Tue, 06/08/2021 - 03:40 PM
The Bat Lady is a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China. Her name is Dr. Shi Zheng-li. She goes on virus-hunting expeditions in bat caves and does “gain of function” genetic manipulations on coronaviruses to make them more infectious and more deadly to humans.
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Opinion: Graduation starts new phase of life
By Wyatt Emmerich, 1,337 Reads
Thu, 05/20/2021 - 03:10 PM
I woke up the other day at my usual time of 7 a.m. After doing some stretches and putting on clothes, I began to knock on my daughter Ruth’s door to wake her up for school as I have done the last 13 years or so.
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Judges in box on medical marijuana
By Tim Kalich, 3,543 Reads
Sat, 04/17/2021 - 09:02 AM
If Mississippi did not elect its Supreme Court judges, you could more confidently predict what they will decide about the lawsuit challenging the voters’ decision last year to legalize medical marijuana.
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