It will be a short session, only 90 days. Mississippi lawmakers will be back home while the azaleas are still in bloom, at least in some...
One of the many reasons that Oxford is such an appealing place to live is the weather, which often does not receive the proper recognition that...
My grandfather told me, once upon a time, that the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt (1901-1909) may have been America’s greatest or, at least, right at the...
None of them will be there to be toasted, hear the applause and pick up a trophy, but Evelyn Gandy, James Hardy, Aaron Henry, Elvis Presley...
SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK One jingle bell short of a full ride: That sleigh is full but someone is not pulling their full load. Related to...
It doesn’t take 30 years of writing about Mississippi politics to figure out that strange things happen, but here are some thoughts: • The election of...
Column by Scott Coopwood Recently, I ran into former Ole Miss Chancellor, Robert Khayat in Oxford. For those who may not know Khayat, he is one...
Of Show & Tell: The New Book of Broadway Anecdotes by Ken Bloom (OUP; 352 pages, trade paperback; SRP, $19.95; index), celebrated composer Charles Strouse states:...
Column by Scott Coopwood In January 2011, I was walking out of the Baptist Church in the small Delta town of Shelby when someone grabbed my...
Nuclear-powered generators were scarce in the United States when utility powers-that-be in Mississippi decided, “Hey, we need one of those.” Last week, word came that Grand...