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Homemade Biscuits Make Life Worth LivingColumns
The homemade biscuit, a beloved American icon, is on the endangered species list. I blame it on supermarket biscuits marketing themselves as “homemade,” with an “old fashioned buttermilk taste.” In reality,...
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Last Week's Five AccomplishmentsColumns Editorial
Last week’s five accomplishments by Daniel Gardner, Special to the Gazette List five things you accomplished last week. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said he secured $5 billion for the US Treasury in one day by...
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DEI Is DyingColumns Editorial
ED ITOR IAL President Donald Trump ended federal DE I programs. Even before, companies were having second thoughts. Victoria’s Secret changed “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” to “inclusion and belonging.”...
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Twists & Turns: Putting Our Existence in PerspectiveColumns
TWISTS & TURNS: PUTTING OUR EXISTENCE IN PERSPECTIVE BY JUDY CAUSEY LOVE, SOUTHEAST ALABAMA CONTRIBUTING EDITOR In case you are not aware of it, the end of February and the month of March have really been a ‘hot’...
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Terry's Creek NewsColumns
CATHERINE BROWN Terry’s Creek News Terry’s Creek is back. My computer had crashed and had to purchase a new one and my Granddaughter Prissy Craft ordered me one cause could not find a place in McComb where could...
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Felder's Essential Pruning ToolsColumns
Ironic, that a guy who hasn’t cut his hair since his navy days loves to prune shrubs. Like shaving my neck, trimming the moustache, and plucking errant eyebrows, keeping the fig compact and easy-toharvest and the...
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Keep It Simple When Celebrating SpringColumns
The official start of spring is this week... this fact alone should be cause for celebration. After all, what’s not to love about spring? We’re in all-too-short balmy window before summer’s oppressive heat...
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Kenny Hodges' Spirit-filled lifeColumns Editorial
by John Stossel Kenny Hodges’ Spirit-filled life by Daniel Gardner, Special to the Gazette I attended a revival last week. Well actually it was a funeral for my long-time friend Kenny Hodges. I met Kenny at...
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The Good, The Bad, The UndocumentedColumns Editorial
President Donald Trump is deporting immigrants -- 11,000 last month. Some people are unhappy about that. Last week a judge ordered a stop to Trump’s removal of Venezuelan nationals. (Deportation happened anyway.) I...
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Felder's Garden GuardiansColumns
Who welcomes, amuses, and inspires you and visitors to your garden, and looks over it while you are not around? Most folks have garden-planting juices gushing in this month’s over-alluring balmy weather and garden...
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New Cooking Show Yielded Inspiration for One Pot MealColumns
Disclaimer: I haven’t watched Meghan Markle’s Netflix cooking show, “With Love, Meghan.” I admired Princess Diana and have similar feelings for Prince William, as well as his wife, Princess Kate. Stodgy King...
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Cool or common senseColumns Editorial
sense by Daniel Gardner, Special to the Gazette Remember when cool was cool? High school and Hollywood were cool. Substance had nothing to do with cool. Popularity is the key to cool. It’s not necessarily what...
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Tax the Past?Columns Editorial
EDITORIAL Climate activists have found a new way to force us to pay more for energy. New York and Vermont passed laws that will raise the price of oil, gas and electricity by taxing the past. New York’s new law...
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Felder's Framework of VinesColumns
Page A6 Thursday, March 6, 2025 MAGNOLIA GAZETTE Not to put too fine a point on this, but vines need sunshine. They are simply plants with long, thin stems, and in nature they wrap or cling tightly to trees as they...
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Stay in Mississippi to Enjoy March's Main EventsColumns
Thursday, March 6, 2025 Page A3 MAGNOLIA GAZETTE I’m calling it now…March is going to a great month! Why would I make such a bold statement? For starters, it contains two of my favorite occurrences of the year:...
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Nothing Has Really ChangedColumns Editorial
THE DEATH OF EUROPE by John Stossel Nothing has really changed by Daniel Gardner, Special to the Gazette You know that war over there that nobody talks about over here? Yeah, the second war Biden botched during his...
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The Death of EuropeColumns Editorial
~Opinion/Editorial~ EDITORIAL America needs more rules to protect workers, say some from both parties. Sen. Josh Hawley wants more rules empowering unions. Barack Obama’s Labor Secretary says there’s “no fairness,...
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Felder's Haircuts for PlantsColumns
What's the difference between grooming our hair and landscape pruning? Outside style, not much, in actual principle. It's a matter of, to quote Paul Harvey, "subjective indignation." I choose what,...
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Dumb Things Socialists PromiseColumns Editorial Political
Socialism is popular! A Pew study reports that more than a third of American adults view it positively. How is this possible? Little has brought more misery -- first in the Soviet Union, then in China, Cuba, Nicaragua,...
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A Deal to Save LivesColumns Editorial Political
The White House has indicated negotiations with Russia and Ukraine are beginning to come to a head, and may be resolved as soon as this week. Democrats and progressive media are stuck reviving a Russian Hoax. It seems...
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2025 Municipal Elections Beginning to Take Shape for the City of MagnoliaColumns Political
One thing is clear when talking to the residents and business owners of Magnolia: Why does the "downtown center" appear to be dying and why are some of the businesses vacating the city? And can this trend of a...
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Southernisms: A Penny For Your ThoughtsColumns Headline
Of all the times for Trump to pull another one of his ill-conceived shenanigans, he chose the week of Abraham Lincoln's birthday to announce that he was ordering the U.S. Treasury Department to stop minting our...
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Mississippi Senate Moves to Muzzle the PressColumns Political
Some Mississippi legislators since time immemorial have wanted the news media off their minds and out of their eyes and ears. Many, but not all, lawmakers don’t understand the media’s connection with basic everyday...
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Felder's Frosty PhilosophyColumns
Winter weather's effects on the garden getting to you? Not this jaded horticulturist, who has been here before. It's another mess alright. I had to explain to shocked new neighbors from a northern state about how our...
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