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Sarah Ulmer
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August 28, 2020
Second Amendment tax free weekend happening this weekend
Starting today, the Second Amendment tax free weekend has arrived in Mississippi. The tax-free weekend begins August 28th and lasts through the 30th. All guns, bullets and shells are included, which means pistols are also sold without state sales tax. The weekend was created in 2014 by the Legislature. The statute reads “hunting supplies are the…
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Magnolia Tribune
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August 27, 2020
Ag Commissioner Gipson Announces MDAC’s New Wild Hog Control Program
Today, Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gipson announced a new Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce (MDAC) program, the Wild Hog Control Program (WHCP). Commissioner Gipson was joined by Mississippi House of Representatives Agriculture Chairman Bill Pigott, Mississippi State Senate Agriculture Chairman Charles Younger, and Mike McCormick, President of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation. “We are excited to…
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Frank Corder
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August 27, 2020
Exclusive First Look at Mississippi’s Aquarium set to open Saturday
The Mississippi Aquarium in Gulfport is scheduled to open to the public this Saturday, August 29th on the 15th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The newest attraction on the Gulf Coast is situated along Highway 90 just east of Highway 49 across from Gulfport’s small craft harbor. The nearly $100 million project has been under construction…
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Magnolia Tribune
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August 26, 2020
SALTER: After virtual national party conventions end, issues will ultimately determine election
By: Sid Salter With the Republican National Convention wrapping up this week and the Democratic National Convention just behind us, the stretch run has essentially begun in the 2020 presidential campaign. There are just 10 weeks left in this election. As one who covered national party conventions as a reporter, I found the pandemic-driven introduction…
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Magnolia Tribune
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August 26, 2020
LIPSON: “Playing with Fire: It’s Time to Condemn the Riots and Restore Public Safety”
Some conflicts begin with clear aims but morph into endless battles, the original motives forgotten. The timeless metaphor for self-sustaining battles is Jarndyce and Jarndyce, the inheritance case at the heart of Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. ‘Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on,’ he wrote. ‘This scarecrow of a suit has, over the course of time, become so…
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Sarah Ulmer
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August 19, 2020
Jackson leaders discuss banning gun shows, but can they?
A faction from the Jackson City Council is publicly making known their opposition to gun shows in the city, and floating the possibility of banning them. Just a week ago, Councilman Aaron Banks, in an op-ed, said that the city “must address gun shows and ensure that tougher penalties are put in place for those…
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Sarah Ulmer
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August 19, 2020
MDE embraces schools reopening and pushes towards connectivity for all students and teachers
Students across the state of Mississippi have begun returning to school for the first time since leaving mid-March. Still in the midst of a global pandemic, operations have changed and the way in which children are learning and teachers are instructing has shifted, drastically for most. According to State Superintendent Carey Wright, school operations are…
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Magnolia Tribune
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August 19, 2020
SALTER: Mississippi elections laws
By: Sid Salter As the national debate roils over whether or not President Donald Trump and some of his appointees are actively setting up the U.S. Postal Service as an intentional impediment to mail-in voting and other early voting efforts, Mississippi is essentially on the sidelines as one few states that haven’t embraced both “no…
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Magnolia Tribune
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August 17, 2020
Mississippi 30 Day Fund receives grant from W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The Mississippi 30 Day Fund will offer vital financial assistance to Mississippi small businesses struggling from the COVID-19 pandemic with support from a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The nonprofit Mississippi 30 Day Fund was recently established to provide immediate financial support to the state’s small business community as it grapples with the economic…
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Frank Corder
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August 14, 2020
Y’all Politics, Facebook talk launch of Voting Information Center
Facebook’s new Voting Information Center launched this week as part of the largest voting information campaign in American history, with the goal of helping 4 million voters register this year. The release on the effort says the nonpartisan feature will be rolling out nation wide at the top of people’s Facebook and Instagram feeds and…
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Magnolia Tribune
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August 14, 2020
Mississippi Democrats urge Legislators to pass Equal Pay Law
Thursday, Jacqueline Amos, Chair of the Mississippi Association of Democratic Chairs, released the following statement on behalf of all 82 of the state’s Democratic County Executive Committee chairs regarding the urgent need for a state equal pay law in Mississippi: “Mississippi is once again dead last, and once again it is a self-inflicted embarrassment in…
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Frank Corder
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August 13, 2020
Could the Great River Flag be the odds on favorite for new Mississippi flag?
With the debate of whether or not to change the state flag in the history books, what remains is the task of choosing a new banner that will now represent Mississippi. The Flag Commission reported that it received over 3,000 designs from the public for consideration to be the new Mississippi state flag. The group…
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Daniel Tyson
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March 11, 2025
Advocates rally for legislation aimed at providing better care for rape victims that died in Senate
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Magnolia Tribune
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March 11, 2025
Magnolia Mornings: March 11, 2025
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Frank Corder
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March 10, 2025
Five candidates qualify for Senate District 18 special election
Business
Business
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Frank Corder
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March 4, 2025
Fabricators Supply expanding in West Point, adding 15 jobs
Business
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Frank Corder
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March 3, 2025
ABB doubling size of its Senatobia facility with $40 million investment
Business
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Lynne Jeter
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March 2, 2025
SBA rolls out new loan program
Culture
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Meredith Biesinger
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March 11, 2025
Discover Mississippi: Spring Break in the ‘Sip
Culture
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C.H. Spurgeon
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March 11, 2025
Are you satisfied?
Culture
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Parrish Alford
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March 10, 2025
Can Jans’ Bulldogs make a deep March run?
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Sid Salter
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March 5, 2025
Bird flu a dire concern to Mississippi’s almost $4 billion top agricultural commodity
Opinion
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James McHale
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March 4, 2025
Maximizing Mississippi’s higher ed ROI requires better data and inclusive financial aid
Opinion
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Charlie Bufalino
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February 28, 2025
Charter schools in Mississippi are working: Let’s give more families the opportunity
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