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Opinion  |  Douglas Carswell  • 
February 23, 2023

Fixing Jackson?

The state stepping in to do what city officials cannot or will not do might even make the municipal accountability problem worse. Mississippi’s legislature has focused a lot on Jackson this session. A bill that could have helped create more Charter Schools died in committee. Another seeking to give voters the power to recall elected…
Opinion  |  Sid Salter  • 
February 22, 2023

In 1976, Jimmy Carter was the last Democrat to win a Mississippi presidential election

The former president shared a close friendship with Yazoo City’s own, the late Owen Cooper, who received two major appointments during the Carter Administration. Like most of the rest of the country, I was saddened to learn over the weekend that former President Jimmy Carter had decided after a prolonged battle with cancer and advancing…