My strange, stressful drive home

RT @rjamesfinn: Outside New Orleans, a New Mardi Gras Experience: The King Cake Drive-Thru via @RaR

RT @kimseverson: Trying so hard to get ⁦@RaR⁩ to break up with the national desk and join the fun kids over at ⁦@nytcooking⁩. https://t.co/….

RT @stefsaul: I might could read this piece by my fellow Southerner @RaR.

RT @kimseverson: “The Lord laid it on my heart and we all need to lift her up because — insert information here,” Mr. Bryant explained in t….

RT @shailadewan: This insane and terrible story, well told by ⁦@RaR⁩

RT @traceytully: Beautiful story by ⁦@RaR⁩ on the Carters, their marriage and their hometown of Plains, Ga. Well done Rick (and Rosalynn) h….

RT @JenBerryHawes: Here's my latest for @propublica:.

RT @JenBerryHawes: “It’s the moist, soupy, suffocating humidity that swallows up everything and conspires with the heat to make any activit….

RT @rjamesfinn: The South Knows a Hot, Sticky Summer. But This? ‘It’s Hell.’ via @RaR in New Iberia, LA

RT @jswatz: "It’s not just the heat, as Southerners have explained for generations. It’s the moist, soupy, suffocating humidity that swallo….

RT @kristinhussey1: Hellish conditions, daily. By @RaR .

RT @liamstack: I wrote about Sinead O’Connor and how the experiences that shaped her — child abuse, teenage incarceration at a church-run h….

RT @rjamesfinn: In Louisiana, a Democratic Governor Leans on Vetoes to Stall Conservative Agenda. via @NYTimes ⁦@RaR⁩ .

She not only told me about the NYT Student Journalism Institute, she convinced me I was worthy of it. It’s no exaggeration to say the program altered the trajectory of my life and career. I feel a lot of things about this, but it’s mostly sadness over what could have been.

Kathleen McElroy is the only other journalist I know of (besides me) in the Texas A&M to NYT pipeline. I met her as a sophomore, and I was just in awe, having someone of her stature and experience willing to talk stories and even dig into my raw copy.

RT @bradystonex: one step forward, 1,000,000 steps back @TAMU

RT @bradystonex: Don’t be mistaken about who these vocal, anti-DEI constituents are . @TheBattOnline did a deep dive last year on the exa….

Maybe disaster can lead to opportunity. I heard that a lot in Rolling Fork in the weeks after the devastating tornado. But was it a chance to breathe life into a struggling town — or set off on the well-trodden path to leave the Mississippi Delta?.

On the Fourth of July in Atlanta, you first go see the official, government-sanctioned fireworks display, then you watch the almost certainly unsanctioned one being fired off in a bank parking lot.

Dateline: Nutbush City Limits