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3 months 2 weeks ago
JXN Water’s Interim Third-Party Manager appeared before the Capital City Revitalization Committee last week to defend the need to raise rates to maintain and operate the troubled municipal water system.
Officials with JXN Water sought to explain to lawmakers last week why it needs to increase rates by 25 percent over the next five years. The discussion was met with mixed reactions and questions about the utility’s billing process.
By Daniel Tyson - Magnolia Tribune on
3 months 2 weeks ago
It may or may not be the biggest sporting event in Mississippi history, but we know for certain Ole Miss is hosting Tulane and you can sell your car and rent a room in Oxford. The Clevelands also discuss USM coaching vacancy, the high school championships and a whole lot more.
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By Rick Cleveland and Tyler Cleveland - Mississippi Today on
3 months 2 weeks ago
The longest bare-knuckle prizefight in history took place between John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain in an obscure location in south Mississippi.
Ole Miss will play host to Tulane in a first round college football playoffs game on Dec. 20 and some pundits already proclaim it the biggest, most important sports event to ever take place on Mississippi soil.
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today on
3 months 2 weeks ago
It is only appropriate that in this – surely the strangest college football season ever – Indiana, the team that entered the 2025 season with the most defeats of any team in college history, finishes the season with a perfect 12-0 record and the No. 1 seeding in the college football playoffs. This is like the Washington Generals beating the Harlem Globetrotters, the Jamaicans winning the Olympic bobsled gold medal or Luxembourg winning World War III.
How crazy was this season? Let us count the ways:
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today on
3 months 2 weeks ago
All Republicans in the chamber voted in favor of state Supreme Court Justice Robert Chamberlin’s confirmation while all Democrats cast their votes in opposition.
Mississippi state Supreme Court Justice Robert Chamberlin has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi.
All Republicans in the chamber voted in favor of Chamberlin’s confirmation while all Democrats cast their votes in opposition, making the final tally 51 to 46.
By Frank Corder - Magnolia Tribune on
3 months 2 weeks ago
Development of a new performance-based funding model is up for discussion as lawmakers and IHL consider ways to improve degree outcomes and workforce needs.
How Mississippi funds its institutions of higher learning was a topic of discussion during the first day of the Senate Committee on Universities and Colleges.
Committee members also heard updates on the status of the college savings programs as well as an update on recent graduation rates.
By Jeremy Pittari - Magnolia Tribune on
3 months 2 weeks ago
Oxford does not ease into Christmas. It makes a complete entrance—coat on, lights up, carols playing, the whole deal.
There are a lot of places to enjoy the holidays in Mississippi, but Oxford has always been my place. I don’t mean that casually—I mean “load up the boys, grab a Sonic drink for the road, and head toward the Square with the kind of excitement usually reserved for Christmas morning.”
By Meredith Biesinger - Magnolia Tribune on
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Photo by Adam Prestridge, © 2025 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Grenada High School senior receiver and Mississippi State University signee capped his career by being recently being named as the Most Valuable offensive in Class 6A, Region 1 as he finished with 54 receptions for 899 yards and 13 touchdowns. Cotton makes the reception during this year's Homecoming win over Olive Branch.
Grenada High School senior wide receiver and recent Mississippi State signee Zayion Cotton led the list of Chargers in the recent Class 6A, Region 1 awards list by being named of Offensive Most Valuable Player.
“It was a good group led by several seniors,” third-year head football coach Michael Fair said. “They put together a good year, and I thought we were well-represented in our district.”
Grenada was 7-4 this season, placing third in the region. The Chargers lost a 35-28 decision in the opening round of the Class 6A playoffs at Ridgeland.
By Chuck Hathcock - Sports Editor on
3 months 2 weeks ago
Grenada High School senior guard Madison Woodard pushes the ball up the court during a home game with Olive Branch. The Lady Chargers opened the season 8-0 before losing last Thursday to the Conquistadors.
After jumping to a 8-0 record to open the 2025-26 basketball season, the Grenada Lady Chargers opened Class 6A, Region 1 play last week with a pair of games.
The schedule opened last Tuesday with a trip to Saltillo. Things looked bleak as Grenada trailed by 20 points in the third quarter. Coach Kendrick Conley’s crew found a way rallying for a 60-49 win despite missing 20 free throws.
The Lady Chargers hosted Olive Branch last Thursday and dropped a 68-43 decision to drop to 8-1 on the season and 1-1 in the region.
By Chuck Hathcock - Sports Editor on
3 months 2 weeks ago
Photo by Chuck Hathcock, © 2025 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Kirk Academy senior guard Charley Rose attempts to make the steal during a recent home game against Madison-Ridgeland Academy.
Both the Kirk Academy Raiders and Raiderettes were looking to get off to a good start last week in Class AAA, District 1 action as they hosted Lee Academy of Clarksdale Monday night.
The girls jumped out to a 31-4 first-quarter lead en route to a 50-21 victory. On the boys side, Kirk broke open a close game in the second half, limiting the Colts to just 8 second-half points to win a 45-28 decision.
By Chuck Hathcock - Sports Editor on
3 months 2 weeks ago
I recently downloaded ChatGPT and asked: What are the three top reasons why an undecided person would choose to support President Trump? It replied: (1) Economic Priorities and Policy Preferences; (2) Immigration and Border Policy; (3) Distrust of Political Establishment. Let’s see what the scoreboard says about each.
By Patrick Taylor on
3 months 2 weeks ago
For the most recent decades of my 87 years, Vietnam’s position on my vacation bucket list mirrored the rank of casinos on my list of steps to ensure a comfortable retirement. I have friends who vacationed there and loved it, and I had friends who got sent there and came back in a box. Other friends returned damaged, and a disturbing number of them died young. My own years of military service during the 1960s took me nowhere near Vietnam; even so, I wasn’t interested in seeing the place. That changed last October.
By William Jeanes on
3 months 2 weeks ago
I thought retirement meant no more corporate meetings, no more trade shows, no more deadlines, etc. However, last week I found myself in Baton Rouge doing what I have been doing for the last 25 years. Before I continue, Coach Kiffin was not part of the equation even though he was still “talk” of the town in tiger land. I suppose old habits are hard to break as I helped old colleagues with the booth preparation at the annual Louisiana Mosquito Control Association meeting.
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3 months 3 weeks ago
Below is a press release from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics:
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released their State Employment and Unemployment Summary for September of 2025.
Unemployment rates were higher in September in 8 states, lower in 2 states, and stable in 40 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Eighteen states and the District had jobless rate increases from a year earlier, 9 states had decreases, and 23 states had little change.
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3 months 3 weeks ago
Northsider Pete Perry is headed to the United States Supreme Court. That’s a big deal.
Pete Perry is one of two individual plaintiffs named in a legal issue involving how election rules are set. The lawsuit pits the Republican Party of Mississippi against the State of Mississippi. The issue is whether mail in ballots have to be received by the constitutionally mandated election date or whether they can be postmarked by that date and physically arrive days later.
Or to put more exactly, quoting the petition for writ of certiorari:
Question Presented
By Wyatt Emmerich on
3 months 3 weeks ago
America is sinking further into a crisis of trust. It doesn’t trust elected officials or the institutions on which they serve. It doesn’t trust the courts or the news media. It doesn’t trust science.
In all of these areas, President Donald Trump and his administration have made the crisis of trust worse.
Nowhere is that more apparent — or more dangerous — than in the distrust toward vaccines being fueled within the administration by Trump’s secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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3 months 3 weeks ago
In a rare show of bipartisan cooperation, Mississippi’s congressional delegation has sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer with concerns that new regulations implemented by the European Union will harm the state’s forestry industry.
The delegation wrote that the E.U. regulations “introduce substantial uncertainty” for the forestry industry and risk “further depressing already strained log and wood-product markets, harming rural communities that depend on healthy, functioning timber economies.”
By Katherine Lin - Mississippi Today on
