Letters To The Editor
Letter to the Editor: Time to consider school consolidation
Editor’s note: This letter was sent to The Star as an open letter to several area school leaders.…
Columns
Transformative power of AI in student-centered learning
In recent years, education has undergone a significant transformation, shifting its focus toward student-centered learning that prioritizes the…
Columns
Voters deserve clarity: Campaign ad wars still missing context in the TANF scandal
STARKVILLE – Mississippi’s TANF spending scandal must continue to be investigated and should go wherever the law and…
Columns
Understanding AI and its myriad of uses
When you hear or read news about artificial intelligence — or AI as it is commonly called —…
Columns
Did Reeves’ primary showing spell doom for November?
Do the Republican primary results show Gov. Tate Reeves in trouble for the general election? The relatively high…
Columns
One more time, crossover voting in Mississippi primaries remains ‘functionally legal’
STARKVILLE – One factor that surfaced in the hotly-contested Mississippi Republican primary election for lieutenant governor between incumbent…
Columns
Small town journalism under fire
Readers of the Marion County Record in rural Kansas won’t be reading 98-year-old Joan Meyer’s folksy “Memories” column…
Columns
Third try no charm for Chris McDaniel
The third try wasn’t the charm for State Sen. Chris McDaniel. Mississippi Republicans decided to stick with what…
Columns
Rise of Millennials, Gen X and Gen Z (Plurals) likely to change Mississippi politics
STARKVILLE – Mississippi’s August 8 primary elections may well mark the last statewide primaries that won’t be significantly…
Columns
Emmett Till murder still haunts 68 years later
During the summer of 1955, as a 12-year-old Black youth growing up in Huntsville, Texas, unfortunately under the…