It’s always Christmas in Senatobia: How a powerful rural lawmaker brings home millions
For many Mississippi lawmakers, Christmas comes again in March or April each year as they typically pass bills full of hundreds of millions of dollars...
Author : habibur vendabari
On this day in 1964
At age 35, Martin Luther King Jr. became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize at the time, donating all of his prize money...
You are not too good for the common good
In September, I visited China for the first time in over four years to introduce my son to his 94-year-old great-grandmother in Beijing. The city...
How a rural lawmaker from Iuka helped get the Mississippi Braves to Pearl
The Mississippi Braves’ minor league baseball era in metro Jackson ended last month after the Atlanta Braves pulled its double-A affiliate out of Pearl...
With affirmative action gone, an already-stressful college application process becomes more complicated
Applying to colleges during his senior year at East Boston’s Excel Academy Charter School felt like a marathon to Armando Reyes. He took standardized tests,...
UW professor David Baker wins 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry
With two other researchers, University of Washington biochemistry professor David Baker received the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for his work in computational protein design....
After Milton, Florida assesses damage from back-to-back climate disasters
Hurricane Milton made landfall on Wednesday night, near Siesta Key, Florida, as a Category 3 storm, bringing ashore 120 mile-per-hour winds, heavy rain, and as...
Colorado’s Naloxone Fund Is Drying Up, Even as Opioid Settlement Money Rolls In
DENVER — On a bustling street corner one recent afternoon outside the offices of the Harm Reduction Action Center, employees of the education and advocacy...
NH Planned Parenthood officials say Vance defunding call ‘dangerous’ for health care
Local Planned Parenthood officials joined their national counterparts Wednesday in raising concerns about vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance’s assurances that he and former President Donald...
In Michigan, climate and clean energy initiatives are gaining momentum
ANN ARBOR, Michigan — The Bryant community, a low-income residential area on the fringes of this midwestern college town, isn’t used to getting attention from...