Dick Hall, who is retiring from the Mississippi Transportation Commission, recently made a strong case to a Jackson civic club for increasing Mississippi’s fuel tax. It’s a position the Republican, who previously served in the Legislature, has long taken. It’s a position we fully support.

Here’s an interesting report from The Associated Press: Out of 1,423 participants in a poll, nearly one quarter of them said they never plan to retire from work.

A hallmark of the Trump administration has been to roll back government regulations, not just those imposed during the administration of Barack Obama but also some that long preceded the nation’s previous president.

The healthy state of the U.S. economy should significantly strengthen Donald Trump’s chances of being re-elected next year, if the expansion holds for another 12 months.

Dizzy Dean, the talented and entertaining baseball pitcher, once made a wise observation: “It ain’t bragging if you can back it up.” That sums up the U.S. women’s soccer team’s march to its second straight World Cup title.

There is a valuable lesson for every business operator — along with every employee and every customer — in a listing of 2018 restaurant sales in America.

Through June, 15 children in the United States have died this year from being left untended in hot cars. And that was before the worst of the summer heat arrived.

In a Fourth of July spectacle in Washington that blurred the lines between patriotic celebration and political preening, President Donald Trump thankfully steered clear of turning his speech on the Washington Mall Thursday into a brazen re-election pitch.

A lawsuit that claims Mississippi is violating the free-speech rights of vegetarian food producers was inevitable.

Federal budget hawks, meaning anybody who thinks the government ought to try to live on the revenue it brings in each year instead of continuing to run up a deficit, are a truly endangered species in Washington these days.

Donald Trump won the presidency running on the slogan “Make America Great Again.” Independence Day, which this nation celebrates Thursday, is a good time to remember that this country has been pretty great for a long time.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last week to uphold partisan gerrymandering was terribly disappointing.

This is not a huge issue, but when the Greenwood City Council is considering some easy things it could do, one of them would be to rename the park where last week’s Stars & Stripes celebration was held.

Two recent events that made national news are sure to make Mississippians wonder if the state will ever shed its unfair and outdated image as a racist backwater.

In one respect, the leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination have something in common with Donald Trump: obvious flaws that could turn away voters.

On the subject of the race to be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2020, George Will, the erudite conservative columnist for The Washington Post, has some spot-on advice for the crowded field.

As Democrats hoping to oust Donald Trump next year begin the process of weeding out their field of 20 hopefuls, many of the candidates seem bent on promising the electorate the moon.

Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves maintains Mississippi’s graduation rate has risen to the national average over the past five years because the state has held students to higher standards.

If District Attorney Doug Evans bows out, as he should, from prosecuting accused killer Curtis Flowers for the seventh time, the most likely office to pick the case up would be Attorney General Jim Hood’s.

Following a stinging but anticipated rebuke last week from the U.S. Supreme Court on his handling of the prosecution of Curtis Flowers, District Attorney Doug Evans has not said whether he will try to prosecute Flowers a seventh time for the Tardy Furniture murders.