Opinion
Passions are high, but state’s presidential voting numbers have remained reliably ‘red’
Like everything else in 2020, the election cycle seems to have been going on for WAY too long. In less than two weeks, the never-ending ...
Special Report, Author at Daily Leader
Opinion
What media to trust? Newspapers get my vote
There is more content available today about the upcoming election than likely in any previous cycle. While we could fill this page with media sources ...
by Special Report, Friday, October 16, 2020 1:45 pm
Opinion
Separation of powers: Attempts to ‘pack’ the Supreme Court have a long history
Depending on one’s partisan leanings, the latest national furor over so-called “court-packing” started with the failed 2016 Supreme Court nomination of U.S. Court of Appeals ...
by Special Report, Tuesday, October 13, 2020 2:38 pm
News
Updated MEMA Hurricane Delta damage report
On Friday, Oct. 9, 2020, Hurricane Delta made landfall near Creole, Louisiana, as a Category 2, resulting in damaging wind and heavy rain across Mississippi. ...
by Special Report, Tuesday, October 13, 2020 12:00 pm
Opinion
As political debates go, Trump-Biden is not the wildest, most intense one I’ve witnessed
The raucous, at times, incomprehensible first 2020 presidential debate between incumbent Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic contender former Vice President Joe Biden was by ...
by Special Report, Tuesday, October 6, 2020 4:40 pm
News - Main
ACCS runs over Cougars
The Adams County Christian Academy Rebels used their rushing game and defense to earn a 31-20 victory over the Brookhaven Academy on Friday night. The ...
by Special Report, Friday, October 2, 2020 11:16 pm
Opinion Columnists
Some of my friends are for it and some against it
Marijuana. Some of my friends are for it and some of my friends are against it and … I am for my friends. When either ...
by Special Report, Friday, October 2, 2020 3:41 pm
Opinion
With Roe v. Wade as litmus test, expect judicial appointments to be political brawls
Democrats and Republicans alike have strained at gnats to obscure the fact that decisions regarding the naming of a successor to the late Supreme Court ...
by Special Report, Tuesday, September 29, 2020 3:37 pm
Opinion
Mississippi remains outlier in early voting
From microwave popcorn to digital grocery shopping to telemedicine, our citizens worship time and the technology that saves time. But in Mississippi and a few ...
by Special Report, Tuesday, September 22, 2020 12:29 pm
Opinion
Initiative 65 is all about money, not your health
There’s a $14 billion dollar industry that wants to sell their product in Mississippi. It’s backed by powerful and wealthy investment firms. Studies show their ...