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3 months 2 weeks ago
Important state and national stories, market and business news, sports and entertainment, delivered in quick-hit fashion
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3 months 2 weeks ago
A thoughtful column on the Mississippi Today website laid out a couple of education ideas that have nothing to do with the pending school choice proposal that would allow families, with state assistance, to enroll their children in whatever school they wish.
Bradley Roberson, superintendent of the Oxford School District, wrote that a state lawmaker challenged him: “If not school choice, then what?” Roberson has a couple of good ideas worth considering. Anything like them would transform education in Mississippi.
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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
From the Coast to the Tennessee line, see what projects are being funded throughout Mississippi.
Governor Tate Reeves (R) announced the state will invest more than $100 million in economic development, infrastructure improvements, workforce training, tourism, and conservation initiatives during a press conference on Thursday.
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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.”
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3 months 2 weeks ago
Important state and national stories, market and business news, sports and entertainment, delivered in quick-hit fashion
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3 months 2 weeks ago
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Messages to the Mississippi Democratic Party asking if Harris would be participating in any campaign or fundraising events while she was in the Magnolia State were not immediately returned Wednesday morning.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris (D) is coming to Jackson to promote her book 107 DAYS.
Harris has been on a 17-city international book tour and has now added 18 new appearances.
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3 months 2 weeks ago
Susan Marquez shares her experience of judging the annual parade, complete with the sights and sounds of the celebration.
When I got the call asking if I would be a “celebrity judge” for the Madison Christmas parade, I was both flattered and confused. Me? A celebrity? Hardly.
By Susan Marquez - Magnolia Tribune on
3 months 2 weeks ago
Below is a political opinion column by Sid Salter:
Whether you love or loathe Big Tech, it’s hard to deny that conflicting red lights at every state line make for a sluggish convoy.
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3 months 2 weeks ago
State Supreme Court Justice James Maxwell’s confirmation vote came hours after his colleague Justice Robert Chamberlin was also confirmed to serve on the U.S. District Court.
The U.S. Senate has voted to confirm Mississippi state Supreme Court Justice James Maxwell to serve on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi.
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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.
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3 months 2 weeks ago
I only recently learned what a “groyper” is - you may or may not be familiar with the term?
From what I can tell, a groyper is a hardline white nationalist. Often anti-Semitic, groypers are hostile to mainstream conservatives. To the extent they have a coherent agenda, groypers seem more national socialism than free-market capitalism.
Having been involved in the conservative movement for three decades, I’d hesitate to call anyone with such views conservative. Indeed, I’d argue people that think like that are essentially hardline leftists.
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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.
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3 months 2 weeks ago
My grandmother lived on Cloverleaf Circle in my early years. Her home was located just a few blocks west of Bailey Avenue, just off Palmyra Street. Homes on her street were wood- framed, simply- built houses of no more than 1,000 square feet.
My family would go for an obligatory visit each Sunday, following lunch at Morrison’s cafeteria in the old Milner Building on South Lamar Street. My brother and I quickly became bored with the small talk and heavy cigarette smoke from the adults in the tiny living room and would retreat to her backyard.
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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:
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3 months 3 weeks ago
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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