It is easy to complain about everything wrong in our communities, but it was heartening to see Attala County residents rise up and put some elbow grease into making a difference for the Great American CleanUp this past weekend.
Mississippi needs to join a growing list of states that allow Community Improvement Districts (CID).
In the days since last week’s attack at a high school in south Florida, where 17 people died, there are rumblings that this time the response will be different; that the tragedy has spurred residents to demand that political leaders do something
There’s an old expression that goes something like, “Nobody’s safe when the Mississippi Legislature is in session.”
In an effort to apply a veneer of accountability to the push to allow public dollars in Mississippi to flow to private schools, supporters of school choice say they would require voucher recipients to take standardized tests, similar to those that public school students take
Chancellor Joseph Kilgore was slated to announce plans for a Sixth Chancery District Youth Drug Court this week after the Star-Herald deadline.
The residents of Kosciusko and Attala County now have a new tool in ensuring they are kept abreast of local government activity.
The Kosciusko School Board has taken a step in the right direction by appointing a community committee to help it vet the applicants for the superintendent post, but it still isn’t enough in our view.
Just a few weeks ago was National Sunshine Week, an awareness campaign that takes place each year focusing on the need for open and honest government.
Hugh Lee Ballard, Jr. died in his home on April 20, 2018, in Ethel, MS. He was 78.
Mississippi State and Southern Mississippi played their spring football games Saturday.
James Keith Self of Kosciusko and Sheryl Self Haley and Dean Haley of Carrollton announce the... READ MORE