Eugene Clarke is running for State Treasurer as a Republican in Mississippi’s 2019 statewide election.
Education
‘The most nutritious meal they’ll get’: How Mississippi districts are feeding kids in a pandemic
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The problem of food insecurity is not new. Advocates point to a system of economic policies that enables hunger to exist.
Sports
This Mississippi All-Time, All-Pro team will mess with Texas or any state, for that matter
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The Magnolia State takes a backseat to none of the other 49 when it comes to producing some of the greatest players in pro football history.
Health
The black American amputation epidemic: Black patients losing limbs at triple the rate of others
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A doctor put up billboards in the Mississippi Delta, Amputation Prevention Institute, they read. He said could save their limbs, if it wasn’t too late.
Uncategorized
Marshall Ramsey: COVID-19’s Next Victim
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What can the Legislature do to help battle the economic devastation caused by COVID-19? Read here about how the Legislature plans to help the economy.
Government
Disability denials can amount to a ‘death sentence,’ judge says in Mississippi case
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‘The injustices of the disability payment system are both many and deep,’ judge says in ruling
Sports
Let’s re-visit Michael Jordan’s version of ‘I’m coming home, they started throwing curves’
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ESPN’s ‘The Last Dance’ has reminded us that baseball can be the most humbling of sports, even for the greatest athlete in the world
Coronavirus in Mississippi
‘It’s extremely heartbreaking’: After 104 years, Delta community’s newspaper closes
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Newspapers across the state are scaling back on the frequency of publication amid the coronavirus crisis
Sports
Of Pistol Pete and Wondrous Wendell and a preliminary game-turned-main event
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There are no games going on these days, but columnist Rick Cleveland remembers a night when two hoops legends, Pistol Pete Maravich and Wondrous Wendell Ladner, put on a show
Coronavirus in Mississippi
Q+A with Southern Miss’ Anna Wan, maker of “The Hub Mask” for COVID-19 protection
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University of Southern Miss assistant professor pivots from hands-on math labs for future teachers to medical mask-making
Education
Mississippi’s first appointed state superintendent, bridge to modern education era dies
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Ohio native Richard Boyd, and the local superintendents working together, enacted the Education Reform Act of 1982
Sports
Vic Schaefer going home, but he leaves State far better than he found it 8 years ago
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Bear Bryant once said that when Mama calls, you come running. Mama, as in Texas, called Vic Shaefer
Sports
Remembering Tom Dempsey and ‘the kick’
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Tom Dempsey, who died Saturday 10 days after contracting the Coronavirus, was born without toes on his right foot or fingers on his right hand. That did not stop him from performing one of the great athletic feats of the 20th century.
Coronavirus in Mississippi
Mississippi’s record-breaking unemployment claims spike 1700% in two weeks of COVID-19
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National jobless claims surged to 5.8 million