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I have always taken a measure of pride in being aware of what’s going on, whether it be on the local, state, national or, to a lesser degree, international level. I believe it is the duty of every citizen to be as well-informed as possible.

It’s a damn poor farmer who starves his mule and then complains because it can’t pull the plow.

Shad White is running for office. It’s just not clear yet which office he is running for.

When I think of how our state is governed, it rarely calls to mind Biblical parallels (other than the Plagues of Egypt found in the Book of Genesis, of course).

I’m not going to say exactly how long it’s been since I was in elementary school, other than to note we had an abacus in our classroom and learned to add and subtract using images of bundles of dynamite (or, at least, that’s what they looked like to me).

A couple of weeks back, Dispatch columnist Slim Smith wrote, citing Franklin Roosevelt and the Four Freedoms:  freedom of speech, freedom of worship in one’s own way, freedom of want and freedom from fear.

On Wednesday, Gov. Tate Reeves announced that he will pull Mississippi out of a federal pandemic relief program that provides rental and utility bill assistance to low income families and will return the remaining funds to the federal government.

For some time now, Mississippi has operated under the illusion that we have a government that relies on the rule of law.

A Black male Democrat, a white female Republican and a college professor walk into a bar.

The Dispatch won first place in the General Excellence category for the second straight year at the annual Mississippi Press Association Better Newspaper Contest.