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Opinion: STEM education is Mississippi’s bridge to a brighter future

As advocates for our community, we sometimes become so focused on the fight against poverty that we don’t pause to build the bridges that will help folks actually improve their lives. Policymakers

October 24, 2017

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Opinion: Mississippi, a political opportunity

I can’t think of a better way to salvage the presidency of Donald Trump than with a federal investment plan for the most impoverished regions of the country, starting with the state

October 23, 2017

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Opinion: The University Greys: students, soldiers, sons of slaveholders

As secession fever swept the Slave South, young white men joined state militias en masse. By May 1861, only four months after Mississippi leaders declared secession, almost every student enrolled at the

October 20, 2017

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Opinion: Looking at old photographs

In one of the most powerful and telling images of the civil rights era, a white teenager angrily shouts at a black teenager clutching a textbook to her chest and stoically walking

October 20, 2017

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Opinion: Trump right to withdraw from UNESCO

If you pay attention to unimportant news, then you are probably aware that President Trump is officially pulling us out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at the end

October 19, 2017

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Opinion: Response: ‘Elect McDaniel, oppose establishment’

This guest column is in response to Will Hall’s column “Elect McDaniel, oppose establishment” published Oct. 16. While the night of Nov. 8 was a great rejection of the American establishment and

October 18, 2017

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Opinion: Net neutrality could push state forward

Internet freedom is the 21st century lifeline. It’s been a recent part of growth in small towns and to the whole world. But many don’t believe in the power of internet freedom. Many

October 18, 2017

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Opinion: How to fight ‘fake news’

It’s been a long day, and you come home to see your social media feed populated with articles about an orphanage that was bombed, a tweet storm from the White House and

October 17, 2017

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Opinion: Mississippi: Elect McDaniel, denounce establishment

The night of Nov. 8, 2016, I was glued to my television, watching one of the greatest dramas of our lifetime come to its thrilling finale. As President-elect Donald Trump approached the

October 16, 2017

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Opinion: Gun control debate should remain honest, logical

In the wake of a devastating mass shooting in Las Vegas, the question of gun control is being brought up again. And, to be fair, it is not a bad question. I

October 13, 2017

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