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Opinion  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
October 14, 2021

Mississippi Dept. of Education seeks 12.56% budget increase as student population declines over 5%

MDE is requesting $3 billion for FY 2023 from state lawmakers.  As Mississippi lawmakers begin to craft the next fiscal year’s state budget, members of the Joint Legislative Budget committee heard from representatives of nearly a dozen agencies in September. Agency representatives presented what they project their budget needs will be for FY 2023, as…
Opinion  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
October 13, 2021

SALTER: Mississippi abortion case seen as litmus test of Supreme Court in post-Ginsburg era

By: Sid Salter Both pro-life and pro-choice Americans focus on a Mississippi abortion rights case that will be the first such case before the Supreme Court since the perceived philosophical stance of the court changed with the 2020 death of liberal Associate Justice Ruth Bade Ginsburg. Roe v. Wade is the landmark 1973 case out…