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April 1, 2022
Mississippi Class of 2021 improves Advanced Placement achievement rate
The number of Mississippi students taking AP courses and passing AP exams have both nearly doubled since 2013. Mississippi’s graduating class of 2021 achieved a 39.1% qualifying score rate for Advanced Placement (AP) exams, an increase from the previous year’s achievement rate of 38.2%. AP courses are college-level courses offered by trained high school teachers.…
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Frank Corder
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April 1, 2022
Pending Governor Reeves’ signature, “Go, Mississippi” will no longer be the official state song
The Legislature seeks to repeal the current state song and create a State Songs Study Committee. Azar’s “One Mississippi” could be one of many state songs. Tucked away in Sections 5 through 7 of a conference report for tourism funding (HB 453) is the Mississippi Legislature’s compromise to do away with the current state song,…
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Anne Summerhays
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March 31, 2022
Mississippi lawmakers vote to prohibit state, local governments from imposing COVID vaccine mandate
The bill will now to head to the Governor’s desk to be signed. Indications are Reeves will sign the bill. Both the Mississippi House and Senate have now voted to adopt the conference report on House Bill 1509, a bill prohibiting state and local governments from imposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Authored by Speaker of the…
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Sarah Ulmer
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March 31, 2022
Legislature passes Mississippi Outdoor Stewardship Trust Fund
Outdoor Stewardship Trust Fund to be filled with an appropriation not a sales tax diversion. Both chambers in Mississippi Legislature have signed off on the House’s Outdoor Stewardship Trust Fund bill after the legislation went to conference and being recommitted earlier this week for changes to allow for Legislative oversight. “This is going to be…
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Sarah Ulmer
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March 31, 2022
Governor Reeves signs largest teacher pay raise in Mississippi history
Teacher pay raise goes into law with signing ceremony at local school. Governor Tate Reeves signed the largest teacher pay raise in Mississippi’s history in a ceremony at Madison Central High School on Thursday. The new law gives teachers, on average, an over $5,000 raise. Assistant teachers will receive on average a $2,000 raise. “When…
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Frank Corder
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March 31, 2022
Natchez Mayor Gibson discusses remote workers initiative with Bigger Pie Forum
“Shift South” one of many topics discussed on BPF podcast. Bigger Pie Forum recently traveled to the jewel of the Mississippi River to meet with Natchez Mayor Dan Gibson at the National Historic Landmark of Dunleith Historic Inn. Mayor Gibson discusses how Natchez is finding itself in an upside surprise renaissance on the heels of…
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Frank Corder
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March 31, 2022
Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist talks Mississippi income tax cut, Biden tax increases
Norquist is the Founder and President of Americans for Tax Reform. He has been actively supporting the elimination of the income tax. Grover Norquist with Americans for Tax Reform joined Y’all Politics on Thursday to discuss the recently passed income tax cut in Mississippi and how it compares to other states that are reducing or…
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Sarah Ulmer
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March 31, 2022
Senator Hyde-Smith says $1.2 million in grant support to go to MS manufacturers
The grant comes from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith announced a $1.2 million Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) grant for Mississippi Manufacturers Association (MMA) The dollars are intended to improve the competitiveness of the state’s manufacturing sector. The grant from NIST which totals $1,218,682, will support ongoing work by the MEP Center…
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Frank Corder
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March 30, 2022
Governor Reeves, Senator Blount tangle over confirmation of Gaming Commission Chair Hopkins
The Governor says Lt. Governor Hosemann should never have appointed the Democrat to the chairmanship. Governor Tate Reeves (R) came out swinging Wednesday morning against Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann (R) and Senate Gaming Chairman David Blount, a Democrat, after the confirmation of Al Hopkins, Sr. as Gaming Commission chairman was held up by Blount. Hopkins…
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Anne Summerhays
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March 30, 2022
AG Fitch joins 20 states in lawsuit to end mask mandate
“It goes against reason and it is time for it to end,” Fitch said. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch joined Attorneys General from 20 other States in a multistate lawsuit against President Biden’s mandate that requires masks on public transportation and in transportation hubs. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle…
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Anne Summerhays
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March 30, 2022
Lawmakers adopt conference report for the Victoria Huggins Mississippi Pill Press Act of 2022
The bill will make pill presses illegal unless registered with the state. On Tuesday, both the Mississippi House and Senate adopted the conference report for House Bill 679, the Victoria Huggins Mississippi Pill Press Act of 2022. The bill seeks to prohibit any person from unauthorized possession and transfer of pill presses and similar devices. It requires…
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Magnolia Tribune
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March 30, 2022
SALTER: Candidate John Arthur Eaves didn’t win, but had few rivals as a populist campaigner
By: Sid Salter Like Ross Barnett, Jim Buck Ross, Robert “Blowtorch” Mason, and J.P. Coleman before him, highly successful trial lawyer John Arthur Eaves Sr. was a master of populist political campaigns and always made of most of his ten-minute speaking slot at the Neshoba County Fair, the Jacinto Courthouse and other Mississippi venues where…
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Frank Corder
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April 28, 2026
Congressmen from Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana seek expansion of Gulf state boundaries
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Matt Ott, Associated Press
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April 28, 2026
U.S. consumer confidence inches higher in April despite Iran war, soaring gasoline prices
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Daniel Tyson
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April 28, 2026
City of Jackson wants federal court to block new water authority
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Frank Corder
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April 23, 2026
Mississippi companies invited to participate in 2026 Southeastern U.S.–Canadian Provinces Conference
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Frank Corder
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April 22, 2026
Corderill investing $100 million at Meridian data center campus
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Frank Corder
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April 17, 2026
Walmart announces plan to remodel 19 Mississippi stores
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Meredith Biesinger
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April 28, 2026
AlleyKat Ceramics: Where a Singapore alley led to a Gulf Coast creative haven
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Alistair Begg
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April 28, 2026
Inheriting the kingdom
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Robert St. John
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April 27, 2026
Between the Arctic and Africa
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Roger Wicker
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April 24, 2026
Finish the job In Iran, but don’t forget China
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Lesley Davis
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April 23, 2026
He Didn’t Even Hesitate: Mississippi’s Jake Mangum, America’s pastime, and the culture that still unites us
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Kelley Williams
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April 23, 2026
An ounce of prevention
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