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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
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Kenneth McGowan, a senior studying computer engineering, poses for a portrait at Mississippi State University in Starkville, on Aug. 18, 2025. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
The new unexpected expenses are hitting budgets at the same time as tuition increases and other general rising costs such as food and electricity.
Since transferring to Mississippi State University from Itawamba Community College in 2022, the cost of parking on campus has always been an issue for Madeline Comer.
Last spring, Comer got a $50 parking ticket because her license plates weren’t registered properly with the university’s parking services, she said. Comer, a junior studying graphic design, called to dispute the ticket.
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The Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara, at the front of the line, is the spiritual leader of the Walk for Peace. He led other Buddhist monks and their dog, Aloka, as they crossed the Natchez-Vidalia Bridge from Louisiana and arrived in Natchez, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, on Day 41 of their 2,300-mile pilgrimage to Washington to promote peace and kindness. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
Buddhist monks from Fort Worth, Texas, are walking on a 2,300-mile, 110-day pilgrimage to Washington, D.C., to promote peace, unity and kindness.
They left Oct. 26 from their Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center.
By Vickie D. King - Mississippi Today on
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.”
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1. Special election set for Court of Appeals Judge, District 1, Position 1
Governor Tate Reeves announced Tuesday that he has set a special election for the Office of Court of Appeals Judge, District 1, Position 1.
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Cliff Notes began as short plot summaries of classic novels and stories. Now they are cribs about complex topics and spin. Corps Speak is the US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) clever spin that evades responsibility for higher and longer Mississippi River floods (a complex topic).
This story began when Congress put the Corps in charge of flood control (1928 Flood Control Act) to prevent another 1927 flood disaster.
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Ester Lee Davis, 73, of Byhalia, Miss., died Saturday, November 29, 2025 in Olive Branch.
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