3 months 2 weeks ago
Surrounded by family and friends, Yazoo City High School senior Maurice Booker announced his plans to attend Mississippi Gulf Coast Community on a football scholarship next season.
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3 months 2 weeks ago
Oxford does not ease into Christmas. It makes a complete entrance—coat on, lights up, carols playing, the whole deal.
There are a lot of places to enjoy the holidays in Mississippi, but Oxford has always been my place. I don’t mean that casually—I mean “load up the boys, grab a Sonic drink for the road, and head toward the Square with the kind of excitement usually reserved for Christmas morning.”
By Meredith Biesinger - Magnolia Tribune on
3 months 2 weeks ago
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3 months 2 weeks ago
Ladaisha Taylor dribbles against Lakyra Bankhead.
The annual Yazoo City-Yazoo County rivalry opened last week and saw the Lady Indians take a 44-31 game-one road victory.
The two teams meet again this Friday at Yazoo City.
“It’s always good when you can win the one on the road in this rivalry,” said YHS head coach Joffre Washington. “When it’s City vs. County, records go out the window. You have to be on top of your game to drown out all the noise if you want to win. It’s very exciting and pressure-packed. We were able to stick to our game plan and come away with a win.”
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3 months 2 weeks ago
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Amari Southern races past Jacorion Taylor.
It’s been six seasons since the Yazoo County Panthers found themselves on the winning side of the ledger in a basketball game against rival the Yazoo City Indians.
This past Friday night, the Panthers snapped the Indians’ 12-game winning streak with a thrilling 57-55 win that, in traditional City-County fashion, went down to the wire.
Yazoo County stormed out of the gate and outscored Yazoo City 18-10 in the first quarter.
The Indians bounced back with a 17-13 second quarter and the Panthers took a slim 31-27 lead into the intermission.
By Joffre Washington on
3 months 3 weeks ago
Messages to the Mississippi Democratic Party asking if Harris would be participating in any campaign or fundraising events while she was in the Magnolia State were not immediately returned Wednesday morning.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris (D) is coming to Jackson to promote her book 107 DAYS.
Harris has been on a 17-city international book tour and has now added 18 new appearances.
By Frank Corder - Magnolia Tribune on
3 months 3 weeks ago
Susan Marquez shares her experience of judging the annual parade, complete with the sights and sounds of the celebration.
When I got the call asking if I would be a “celebrity judge” for the Madison Christmas parade, I was both flattered and confused. Me? A celebrity? Hardly.
By Susan Marquez - Magnolia Tribune on
3 months 3 weeks ago
Below is a political opinion column by Sid Salter:
Whether you love or loathe Big Tech, it’s hard to deny that conflicting red lights at every state line make for a sluggish convoy.
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3 months 3 weeks ago
State Supreme Court Justice James Maxwell’s confirmation vote came hours after his colleague Justice Robert Chamberlin was also confirmed to serve on the U.S. District Court.
The U.S. Senate has voted to confirm Mississippi state Supreme Court Justice James Maxwell to serve on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi.
By Frank Corder - Magnolia Tribune on
3 months 3 weeks ago
Mississippians are becoming increasingly incensed with the growing number of robocalls they receive.
For decades, robocalls have plagued Mississippians as technology continues to evolve.
A nationwide effort has been underway to crack down on these annoying cold calls that not only disturb your peace and quiet but often work to steal personal information for illegal purposes.
By Jeremy Pittari - Magnolia Tribune on
3 months 3 weeks ago
I recently downloaded ChatGPT and asked: What are the three top reasons why an undecided person would choose to support President Trump? It replied: (1) Economic Priorities and Policy Preferences; (2) Immigration and Border Policy; (3) Distrust of Political Establishment. Let’s see what the scoreboard says about each.
By Patrick Taylor on
3 months 3 weeks ago
I only recently learned what a “groyper” is - you may or may not be familiar with the term?
From what I can tell, a groyper is a hardline white nationalist. Often anti-Semitic, groypers are hostile to mainstream conservatives. To the extent they have a coherent agenda, groypers seem more national socialism than free-market capitalism.
Having been involved in the conservative movement for three decades, I’d hesitate to call anyone with such views conservative. Indeed, I’d argue people that think like that are essentially hardline leftists.
By Douglas Carswell - Mississippi Center for Public Policy on
3 months 3 weeks ago
For the most recent decades of my 87 years, Vietnam’s position on my vacation bucket list mirrored the rank of casinos on my list of steps to ensure a comfortable retirement. I have friends who vacationed there and loved it, and I had friends who got sent there and came back in a box. Other friends returned damaged, and a disturbing number of them died young. My own years of military service during the 1960s took me nowhere near Vietnam; even so, I wasn’t interested in seeing the place. That changed last October.
By William Jeanes on
3 months 3 weeks ago
My grandmother lived on Cloverleaf Circle in my early years. Her home was located just a few blocks west of Bailey Avenue, just off Palmyra Street. Homes on her street were wood- framed, simply- built houses of no more than 1,000 square feet.
My family would go for an obligatory visit each Sunday, following lunch at Morrison’s cafeteria in the old Milner Building on South Lamar Street. My brother and I quickly became bored with the small talk and heavy cigarette smoke from the adults in the tiny living room and would retreat to her backyard.
By Kendall Smith on
3 months 3 weeks ago
I thought retirement meant no more corporate meetings, no more trade shows, no more deadlines, etc. However, last week I found myself in Baton Rouge doing what I have been doing for the last 25 years. Before I continue, Coach Kiffin was not part of the equation even though he was still “talk” of the town in tiger land. I suppose old habits are hard to break as I helped old colleagues with the booth preparation at the annual Louisiana Mosquito Control Association meeting.
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