Editorials
Are lawmakers finally listening to us?
Could lawmakers actually be listening to Mississippi voters? This week the Republican set to become the next Speaker of the House of Representatives acknowledged voters’ ...
Staff Reports, Author at Prentiss Headlight
News
Prentiss native still educating after 40 years
Dr. Charles Magee, a native of Prentiss, grew up on a small family farm in Jefferson Davis, County. He earned a BS degree in General ...
by Staff Reports, Wednesday, March 8, 2023 10:08 am
Editorials
Restoration of Mississippi’s ballot initiative process should be on voter’s agenda in 2023
Statewide elections will be on the ballot later this year for all state eight statewide executive branch offices, all state district offices and for all ...
by Staff Reports, Wednesday, February 1, 2023 9:58 am
Galleries
ACT scores rising at JDCH
One of the biggest test days for any student is the day they take the ACT Many of the students of the Jefferson Davis County ...
by Staff Reports, Wednesday, January 25, 2023 3:06 pm
Opinion
McCarthy’s politically expensive election as House Speaker leaves a hard road forward
American citizens last week learned a new phrase in the nation’s political lexicon, one not heard 14 consecutive times on Capitol Hill since before the ...
by Staff Reports, Wednesday, January 11, 2023 1:13 pm
Opinion
Once again, Mississippi’s ‘open’ primary statute debated after tight second primary
Last week’s Republican congressional primaries in Mississippi’s Third and Fourth congressional districts pointed up some political realities that should prove instructional for current office holders ...
by Staff Reports, Wednesday, July 6, 2022 8:02 am
News
Beware of daylily plant bug
Occasionally gardeners will notice mid-sized (roughly ¼ inch long), orange and black bugs feeding on buds and blooms of daylilies. Often these are not very ...
by Staff Reports, Friday, June 24, 2022 10:25 am
Opinion
A surprising week in Mississippi politics revolves around entrenched division, apathy
From the U.S. Capitol to rural polling places in Mississippi in midterm congressional primaries, it has been a week of surprises and political drama that ...
by Staff Reports, Thursday, June 16, 2022 7:51 am
Opinion
Readers ponder the future of how we pay for future road and bridge maintenance
After a recent column on the soaring retail cost of gasoline and the concomitant impact those prices have on related fuel taxes and the proliferation ...
by Staff Reports, Wednesday, June 8, 2022 9:19 am
Opinion
Gas price nightmare exacerbated by stagnant gas taxes impact on future maintenance
American taxpayers, who are also gasoline customers, are in an economic vise on questions of the cost of gasoline and the tax revenue gasoline purchases ...