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7 Funny Things Southerners Say About Cold Weather

Judging the weather based on numerical temperatures is boring. Besides, if it’s 35 or 40 degrees, who can tell the difference? Southerners love a...

Ole Miss Musings: The Year 1848 And The Environment In Which Ole Miss Was Founded

    We have all seen the year (1848) reflected everywhere in Ole Miss publications; however, I have never taken the time to explore that year...

Thacker Mountain Radio Hour Returns This Thursday At Off Square Books

The Thacker Mountain Radio kicks off its spring 2017 season this Thursday, Jan. 26 at 6 p.m. at Off Square Books (129 Courthouse Square)...

Unconquered and Unconquerable: The Forward Thinker

Piominko became friends with George Washington, protected the settlers of Nashville and sounded like Martin Luther King Jr The front yard of Tupelo’s City Hall...

Wicker, Roberts, Fischer Work To Put A Permanent End To Taxpayer Funding Of Abortion

Senators Announce Bill to Prohibit Use of Funds, Increase Insurance Plan Transparency U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Deb Fischer, R-Neb., have...

Master Of Managed Messages Has Earned A Chance

Remember this one? Two people are standing on the shore looking at the vast ocean. One says, “Man, that’s a lot of water.” The...

Mississippi Quote of the Day

January 24, 2017 “You boys pair off. Pair off in threes.”---Mississippi high school football coach "The Mississippi Book of Quotations" by David Crews was published...

BlackJack Sailing Opens Registration For Summer 2017

The Sabatier family, founders of BlackJack Sailing, are kicking off their second year at Sardis Lake with sailing camp sessions for children ages 8-17...

Letter From The Chancellor: Vitter Welcomes Back Ole Miss Students

Welcome back! Our Oxford campus, thanks to great care by our superb team of groundskeepers, is lush and alive and worthy of its perennial rating...

"Eggs and Issues" Legislative Breakfast Seemed To Be More Issues Than Eggs

The third annual “Eggs and Issues” breakfast was held at the Courtyard Marriott earlier this morning. Sponsored by the Oxford Chamber of Commerce, the...

Review of David Sansing's "Mississippi Governors: Soldiers, Statesmen, Scholars, Scoundrels"

Six of them were arrested, one while trying to hide behind a cow. Two fought for the Union. Three had no First Lady. One...