STUPID MAILING ALERT: Wait! This wouldn't have happened without Cindy Hyde-Smith? OMG! This is the first mailing boosting a candidate on next month's ballot that I have received so far. The measure mentioned passed both Senate and House nearly unanimously. Good for her and us, being on the correct side of a measure. But nearly about 90% of all senators and representatives from the both parties plus the states and rep districts as well. Heck, I'm willing to bet nearly all the opposition candidates would have voted yea as well. REALTORS, not a good look. Looks like a huge, ineffective waste of your member dues and lack of leadership respect.

I can hardly wait for the next mail drop!

Why do so many Mississippians leave home, and what would it take to bring them back?

Don't Look Around, a new narrative podcast from The Mississippi Independent and Broadview Creative Company, premieres today. Host Melvin Robinson, a Mississippi native who left the state himself, talks with Mississippians who moved away (a filmmaker in California, a business owner in upstate New York, a therapist in Illinois and more) about the state's brain drain and how to reverse it.

Episode 1 is available now! Check it out and let me know what you think!

Almost 30 counties are under a burn ban, just as I’m about to go camping.