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CommentaryCommentary: Changing the flag is just the start
For now, leave the flagpoles bare. Let Mississippi earn a new flag that reflects an inclusive and just state.
By Leah Davis and Susan M. Glisson -
CommentaryPreparing for the Next Big One
This year, the next disaster keeps arriving before the last disaster is over. Historic rainfall in January and February swelled the Pearl River and flooded large swaths of Jackson and central Mississippi, inundating hundreds of homes and displacing thousands of residents. Tornadoes ripped across the state throughout the month of...
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CommentaryLet Mississippians vote by mail in November
On November 3rd, more than 1.2 million Mississippians will cast their votes for the presidency, Congress, and a handful of down-ballot offices. At best, we will be in recovery from the worst public health and economic crisis in our lifetimes. At worst, we will still be in lockdown after premature...
By Jake McGraw -
CommentaryKeeping Mississippians at Home
Governor Reeves?s statewide stay-at-home order goes?into effect?today. It is a necessary ? and overdue ? measure to forestall the spread of the coronavirus that has infected at least 1,300 and killed 26 people in Mississippi. It is also another sign of how much the world has changed in just a...
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CommentaryCoronavirus and the Digital Divide?
Right now, the best thing people can do for public health is?to isolate themselves at home. The best thing people can do?for?the economy is?to continue working. Both are possible for people who have?reliable internet access and jobs that can be performed remotely. For everyone else, they are mutually exclusive. I...
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CommentaryThe recession has begun: How bad will it?get?
Conventional economic wisdom says that Mississippi is often the last state into and last state out of a national recession. That wisdom largely held for the 2001 and 2008 recessions, which started in sectors (tech and finance, respectively) that did not have wide footprints in Mississippi. But once the downturns...
By Jake McGraw -
CommentaryCoronavirus arrives in Mississippi
On Wednesday night, Mississippi became the 39th state to confirm a case of COVID-19. Five more presumptive cases have been reported today. Coronavirus took a while to reach Mississippi, but now that it?s here, the priority is containing its spread and treating the people who suffer severe complications. At the...
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CommentaryCommentary: A call for a more careful use of rhetoric
A response to recent columns The Daily Mississippian by professors of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi.
By LaToya Faulk, Jennifer Jackson, Amber Nichols-Buckley, & Sarah Bartlett Wilson -
CommentaryCommentary: Mississippi does not have a state lottery. Let’s keep it that way.
The benefits are overstated, the costs are underestimated, and there are much better ways to fund essential services.
By Jake McGraw -
CommentaryCommentary: Why I joined the nationwide fast food strike
The average fast food worker in Mississippi earns less than the poverty line and receives few benefits or protections.
By Cajania Brown -
CommentaryCommentary: How to make $60,000 when schools are underfunded
Become a lawyer and represent the Legislature when it evades its responsibility to adequately support public schools.
By Jake McGraw -
CommentaryCommentary: The College Board?s dismissal of Dan Jones sets a dangerous precedent
If you take the IHL Board at their word, the University of Mississippi's educational and social mission is subordinate to the quest for financial returns.
By Jake McGraw -
CommentaryOp-Ed: Toasting the demise of SB 2767
The bill, which would have prohibited abortions based on determinations of race or gender, played on disturbing stereotypes in yet another attempt to limit reproductive justice.
By Natalie A. Collier -
CommentaryTo reduce unplanned pregnancies, focus on older teens and young adults
A 2014 law requires all of Mississippi's two- and four-year colleges to develop plans to address unplanned pregnancy on campus. This is a good start, but more needs to be done.
By Jamie Bardwell, Women's Foundation of Mississippi
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