Opinion

On March 10, city officials finally lifted the month-long water boil notice for Jackson. Over the past four weeks, many of Jackson’s 300,000 citizens have been without clean running water due to February's historic winter storm. Winter storm Uri wreaked havoc on Jackson’s dated infrastructure, causing instrument failures at the...

When presented with a challenge in life, we are often compelled to choose the easy or hard route. The easy route usually offers little resistance, no opportunities for growth and allows the status quo to remain in place. The hard route, or road less taken, isn’t meant to be easy...

Mississippi Senate Bill 2536, the anti-transgender bill aimed at banning trans athletes from participating in women’s sports, passed last week. The fact that we even have to be releasing this op-ed just days after International Women’s Day is a disappointing reality that sometimes comes with living in this state. As...

Over the course of the pandemic, Mississippi’s response has proven below average at best and abysmal at worst. As of publication, Mississippi is 45th in testing and 35th in vaccinations. Adjusted for population, Mississippi remains 15th in cases and 5th in deaths.  On March 2, forty-three Mississippians died of coronavirus....

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, which opened in 2017, focuses on the years between 1945 and 1976 “when Mississippi was ground zero for the national Civil Rights Movement”. The museum celebrates the Mississippians who fought to move their state forward and remains unflinching while handling the violence inflicted upon those...

Burst pipes and standing water can easily lead to students getting hurt. I saw the effects firsthand when my roof collapsed because of a burst pipe at the Retreat at Oxford on Feb. 16. Luckily, no one was injured, but the safety risk cannot be understated. If I had been...

We tend to confuse embarrassment and shame. We might say that embarrassment is a shallower or lighter version of shame, yet we still think of them as two words for the same thing. But if we are to be precise, embarrassment and shame are distinct from one another. Embarrassed is...

What two things last around four years and have a major impact on an 18 to 22-year-old’s future? An undergraduate degree and the term of your local college town mayor and the Board of Aldermen. Oxford has upcoming races on June 8 for the seven Board of Aldermen spots and...

Teaching a child the importance of telling the truth is a value many of us share. When a child has done something that causes shame, a caring adult can only help if they understand what was actually done. The value of truth-telling extends to adulthood. For example, if one is...

Last Monday, the Oxford Board of Aldermen decided to implement an outdoor mask mandate that requires patrons to wear masks outdoors when social distancing is not possible — including while standing in lines for bars on the Square. This was the right call. This decision came after photos of young...