No good treatment goes unpunished for pharmaceutical companies these days, and Bernie Sanders offered another example on Wednesday when he hel…
Lawmakers continue to overcomplicate the ballot initiative process, and the reason is simple. They do not trust the people of Mississippi to m…
Gallup last month released a poll that showed a deep divide between Americans who believe the COVID-19 pandemic is over and those who don't. I…
The White House is touting President Biden’s U.S. military budget for fiscal 2024 as a record, and Mr. Biden is betting busy Americans won’t l…
Housing prices are falling after surging 40% during the pandemic. This should help buyers frozen out of the market by rising mortgage rates. S…
One day after our latest impassioned plea for state leaders to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage from 60 days to up to 12 months, Gov. Tate …
Leaders in the Mississippi House of Representatives are putting on a pathetic show of leadership over crucial health care debates.
Vladimir Putin has thrown 97% of his army into Ukraine, U.K. officials said this week, and the Russian dictator is betting he can grind down t…
The Mississippi Senate is not backing down from a bad idea, one already held up by a state court and awaiting a final decision before the Miss…
Fixing the ballot initiative process is simple. The Legislature is purposefully making it hard because they want to limit voters' ability to s…
Imagine if the Republican Party rigged its presidential nominating calendar to help Donald Trump slide past states where he’s politically weak…
Two important bills that would fight against government overreach died early in this legislative session without so much as a vote in committe…
Bravo to the Biden administration, which last week extended temporary safe haven status for another two years to Hong Kong citizens currently …
Watchdog & Storytelling
Speaker Philip Gunn is stubbornly refusing to allow the Mississippi House of Representatives to vote on a bill that would extend postpartum Me…
Ideas that start on the progressive fringes have a way of becoming government policy these days, as President Biden’s $400 billion student loa…
It will be up to the two special counsels to investigate and weigh the handling of secret documents by President Biden and former President Do…
The Biden Administration’s rule by regulation is gaining speed, and the latest example is the Federal Trade Commission’s plan to ban non-compe…
On New Year's Eve, hundreds of people flooded downtown Tupelo and Fairpark to usher in 2023. The tremendous event represented a monumental amo…
As the new year begins, the Daily Journal recommits to its readers our continued best efforts to follow the principles that have guided the pa…
Tomorrow we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. As is tradition at the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, today we pre…
Lee County is losing three longtime public servants who have decided not to seek re-election next year. Together, the three have spent more th…
Since it was first chartered in 1884, Mississippi University for Women has been a leader in developing teachers.
Big Tech has put local journalism on life support, and it’s undermining our ability to govern ourselves.
With Republicans poised to take over the House next year, a divided Congress looms. The result could be two years of partisan strife and gridl…
What could be more asinine, more capable of stretching credulity than the Mississippi Ethic Commission's saying the Legislature is not bound b…
In his executive budget proposal, Gov. Tate Reeves called for the complete elimination of the state income tax. This has been a bad idea for t…
The first Thanksgiving Proclamation of the United States, Oct. 3, 1789, by President George Washington: