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Anne Summerhays
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March 11, 2022
Governor Reeves, while reluctant to call a special session, says it’s not off the table to address elimination of income tax
As deadline for Appropriations, Revenue bills originating in other chamber approaches, Reeves speaks on the elimination of the state’s income tax. On Friday, Governor Tate Reeves (R) held a ceremonial signing for House Bill 779, which ensures that families of law enforcement officers and firefighters who pass away due to contracting COVID-19 in the line of…
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Magnolia Tribune
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March 11, 2022
WICKER: President Biden should admit his anti-energy agenda is main reason America is paying more
Submitted by Senator Roger Wicker “The only real solution to this self-imposed energy crisis is for President Biden to end his war on American energy.” When President Biden took office, Mississippians were paying $1.88 for a gallon of gasoline. Today, we are fast approaching $4 per gallon after just 14 months under his leadership. The…
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Magnolia Tribune
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March 11, 2022
MDE announces 135 school districts have chosen to receive new health, school safety platform at no cost
ESSER III funds will cover the costs of the platform and cameras until Sept. 30, 2024. A new health and school safety platform will be available at no cost to 135 Mississippi school districts that recently opted to receive the service to create a safer and better learning environment for students, teachers and staff. In…
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Magnolia Tribune
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March 11, 2022
MS Supreme Court upholds voter intimidation conviction in Madison County
Jackson Jambalaya reports that the Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of Courtney Rainey who was convicted in 2019. Rainey was accused of giving a voter money for beer and to solicit other votes and then subsequently interfering with the investigation. She was charged with both voter fraud and intimidation and sentenced and convicted…
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Sarah Ulmer
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March 11, 2022
MS House signs and sends conference report on teacher pay prior to meetings with Senate
So far there have been no conference conversations between the House and Senate regarding the final decision on teacher pay. On Thursday, Speaker of the House Philip Gunn announced that a conference report on a teacher pay raise had been signed by members of the House of Representatives. In order for a conference report to…
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Anne Summerhays
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March 10, 2022
Hyde-Smith contends maximum U.S. Energy production needed for national, global security
“I find it difficult to believe we would not be facing an energy crisis if we had maintained greater energy independence,” Hyde-Smith said. During a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) pressed energy experts on how the United States should maximize domestic oil and gas production. “I find it difficult…
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Editor
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March 10, 2022
Mississippians would be paying $.40/gallon more now if gas tax had been upped
Looking back on who said what when. Even with record high gas prices right now, Mississippi’s gas prices would be 40 cents per gallon higher right now but for efforts to kill repeated gas tax increase proposals in the last five years. In 2017-18, there was a major push for Mississippi to raise its 18.4…
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Magnolia Tribune
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March 10, 2022
MSDH releases COVID-19 reporting update
The Department will reduce the COVID-19 data it issues daily due to the decline in COVID-19 activity in the state. Due to the recent decline in COVID-19 activity in the state, the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) is reducing the COVID-19 data it issues daily. These changes include fewer demographic charts and less frequent…
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Frank Corder
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March 10, 2022
Senator Wicker leads call to President Biden to end federal COVID travel restrictions, mask mandates
Thirty-one other Senators, including Sen. Hyde-Smith, sign on to Wicker’s letter to Biden. Mississippi U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today led 31 Senators in a letter to President Biden urging the Administration to lift travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Americans are ready to…
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Magnolia Tribune
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March 10, 2022
MDE announces 121 school districts to receive online tutoring services at no cost
The tutoring services will be live, online and available 24/7 with a live person. New high-dosage tutoring services in math and English Language Arts will be available to students in grades 3-12, educators and families at 121 school districts, which includes four charter schools, that recently opted in to receive the services at no cost.…
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Frank Corder
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March 10, 2022
PSC Commissioners Maxwell, Presley vote to request President Biden appoint Mississippians to TVA Board
Commissioner Bailey opposed using the “Commission’s voice” to make the request. Last week, Northern District Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley (D) sent a letter to President Joe Biden calling on him to appoint, at minimum, two Mississippians to the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Presley pointed out that the current seven-member board…
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Frank Corder
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March 10, 2022
How would eliminating the income tax in Mississippi help your family? MCPP’s calculator can answer that.
MCPP says the math shows the House plan would give families a massive tax break, Senate plan would hardly help at all. What would income tax elimination mean for you and your family? To help Mississippians see how their family finances would be impacted by the proposal to eliminate the state income tax, the Mississippi…
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Frank Corder
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December 23, 2025
Coast Guard returning full operations to its Pascagoula station
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Jeremy Pittari
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December 23, 2025
Mississippi Dept. of Education launches AI pilot program in 15 school districts
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Fatima Hussein, Associated Press
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December 23, 2025
Medicaid paid more than $207 million for dead people. A new law could help fix that
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Frank Corder
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December 19, 2025
Firehawk Aerospace expands U.S. rocket manufacturing by acquiring Mississippi facility
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Frank Corder
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December 18, 2025
Steel industry supplier P.C. Campana moving manufacturing line to Vicksburg
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Frank Corder
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December 15, 2025
Amick Farms announces $74.5 million expansion in Jones County
Culture
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Susan Marquez
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December 26, 2025
A cure for the post-holiday blues
Culture
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Alistair Begg
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December 26, 2025
Dead-end streets
Culture
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Meredith Biesinger
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December 25, 2025
Where Christmas comes to life: Mississippi’s growing role in holiday movies
Opinion
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Sid Salter
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December 24, 2025
Slain director Rob Reiner made a complex but necessary film in Mississippi in the 1990s
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Donna Akers
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December 23, 2025
The joy of learning has been lost. It’s time to bring it back
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Kimberly Ross
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December 22, 2025
Don’t say anything at all: Rob Reiner, Donald Trump, textbook narcissism and double standards
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