December may be no loonier than other months, but you’d never know it from the news. Here are a number of peculiar items from 2019’s final month that will amuse you. They sound like fake news, but they claim to be genuine.
The recent rise in violence from Parchman and other prisons has become a leading issue of the day in Mississippi, right in time for the start of the 2020 legislative session.
This is surreal. Mississippi college football, that is.
The constant squealing and splashing distracted me from my task of watching the briar studded ridge. Though I was trying to stay focused to make sure a late season haunt buck didn’t give me the slip, I couldn’t help but watch the antics of the multitude of wood ducks that were creating quite the ruckus.
Our Christmas break involved lots of food, family, and three stitches in the face. All children present for ‘the incident’ agree that it was, in fact, an accident but somehow daughter #2 walked into a metal-tipped pole that daughter #3 was swinging at the fence.
A few days after Christmas, dawn was a golden brush stroke across the sky when I headed home on the Natchez Trace from visiting my son Bob's family in Tennessee. As I have done several times in the past, I stopped at the Council House Café in French Camp. Not hungry yet, I got a to-go lunch to carry with me and once again hit the road.
My heart sank when Tim Kalich texted me the news that Donnie Brock had passed away. I sat in my chair, and my mind flew back to another age.
In the year 2000 this nation had 78,000 news reporters, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. As we head into 2020, that number has fallen by more than 36 percent. That’s nearly 30,000 less people gathering the information that is vital for a democracy to make informed decisions.
In response to Wyatt Emmerich’s opinion, “Case good for medical pot,” while I fully understand this was an opinion piece, a topic of this importance and impact to public health needs the respective rebuttal of a physician, an expert in medicine. It is prudent to present facts as this will affect the health of Mississippians.
A former student at Jones County Junior College is suing the school for infringing on his free speech rights. And the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is coming to his defense.
