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September 7, 2022
SALTER: Decades in the making, Jackson’s infrastructure woes won’t be quickly or easily solved
By: Sid Salter Like seemingly every other facet of American society these days, when it comes to both the national media and the state’s press, the assignment of blame for the City of Jackson’s water and sewer system woes falls into two distinct camps. The first camp blames those woes almost entirely on what they…
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September 7, 2022
WATSON: Mississippi Election Information Clarification
Submitted by Michael Watson Secretary of State Watson clears up misleading information in recent Clarion Ledger article on voting in Mississippi. While maybe well-intentioned, a recent Clarion Ledger article on voting in Mississippi provided misleading information on the different avenues one can take to cast his or her ballot. One of the headers even noted “If…
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Frank Corder
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September 6, 2022
Jackpot Justice +20: Taggart, Nash look back at impact of the longest special session in state history
This is the second installment in the Y’all Politics series looking back at the passage of tort reform that occurred 20 years ago in the longest special session in Mississippi history. In August 2002, former Governor Ronnie Musgrove, a Democrat, called in his trial lawyer friends to tell them over breakfast that the pressure to enact…
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Frank Corder
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September 6, 2022
Water pressure restored in Jackson thanks to state intervention
Governor Reeves implored the city of Jackson to put forward a plan to permanently fix the problem at the municipal level. On Monday – Labor Day – Governor Tate Reeves and the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency announced that water pressure has been restored in the city of Jackson. The state got involved in the municipal…
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Frank Corder
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September 5, 2022
Labor Day: Thank you for your hard work, Mississippi!
Mississippians all across this great state put in long hours as they seek to provide and make a life for their families. Whether you are building the ships that protect America’s freedom on the Coast, hauling timber in the Pine Belt, growing crops that feed the world in the Delta, or teaching a class full…
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Guest Editorial
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September 2, 2022
WICKER: Water Crisis, Infrastructure Needs, and Economy Top August Travel in State
Submitted by Senator Roger Wicker “I am encouraged by the great deal of progress happening across our state,” Wicker writes. Each year during August, I get the chance to travel extensively in Mississippi to meet with constituents while Congress is out of session. This past month, I met with a wide range of small business…
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Guest Editorial
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September 2, 2022
LATINO: How the Jackson water shortage happened and how it can be solved
Submitted by Russ Latino “Whether Republican or Democrat, white or black, Jackson residents deserve better. Mississippi needs a strong capital city,” Latino writes. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall, ravaging the Mississippi Gulf Coast with record storm surge. On the 17th anniversary of one of the worst natural disasters in state history, Governor Tate…
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Frank Corder
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September 1, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: Reports from inside Jackson’s water treatment plant since state intervention
“Grateful faces” and “fundamentally unsafe conditions.” According to multiple sources on-site and close to the State of Mississippi’s intervention in Jackson’s O. B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant that were not authorized to speak publicly, state Health and Emergency Management officials were met with a mix of “grateful faces” from a severely overworked and critically understaffed…
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Frank Corder
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September 1, 2022
Expecting Jackson to have basic functionality like every other Mississippi municipality isn’t unreasonable
The other 2.75 million Mississippians should not be on the hook for Jackson’s poor management. The lack of civics education is a real issue in this country, and the Jackson water crisis has proven that truth once again. Local residents rightfully angry over the lack of usable water rush to blame the State when, in…
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September 1, 2022
WHITE: Municipal water departments “hothouses for fraud”
Submitted by Shad White “Now is the time to work together to make sure water and utility bills are not being skimmed by employees,” Auditor White writes. Since I’ve been State Auditor, my office has identified hundreds of thousands of dollars of stolen utility and water payments. That means a great deal of money paid…
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Guest Editorial
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September 1, 2022
KELLY: To Help Mississippi Families, Congress Should Combat Inflation, Not Tackle U.S. Tech Innovators
Submitted by Doug Kelly “Creating obstacles for American tech companies to innovate and to offer low prices to consumers is the wrong priority for Congress,” Kelly writes. Four-decade-high inflation is disproportionately affecting the South, and Mississippi families are struggling. Rather than focusing on lowering prices, though, Congress is considering legislation that would further squeeze the…
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August 31, 2022
CARSWELL: Why no water in Jackson?
Submitted by Douglas Carswell “For years, city authorities have underinvested in Jackson’s water infrastructure, to the point where it is now falling apart,” writes Carswell. An American city of 150,000 people is without running water. Pumps at the main water treatment plant in Jackson, Mississippi failed this week. Low water pressure means that many homes…
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July 9, 2025
Biden’s former doctor refuses to answer questions in House Republican probe
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Alex Veiga, Associated Press
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July 9, 2025
Stocks open higher on Wall Street as trade talks press ahead
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Frank Corder
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July 9, 2025
Nissan delays EV production at Canton plant until 2028
Business
Business
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Lynne Jeter
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July 8, 2025
Mississippi tech companies featured at premier national defense innovation event
Business
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Lynne Jeter
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June 27, 2025
Howard Industries announces $237 million expansion in Clarke, Jones and Simpson counties
Business
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Magnolia Tribune
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June 17, 2025
Balch & Bingham’s Hoffmann appointed Honorary Consul of Belgium for Mississippi and Alabama
Culture
Culture
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Meredith Biesinger
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July 9, 2025
Where Stories Live: Inside USM’s de Grummond collection and the magic of the Children’s Book Festival
Culture
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C.H. Spurgeon
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July 9, 2025
Exalted with Him
Culture
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C.H. Spurgeon
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July 8, 2025
I know
Opinion
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Sid Salter
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July 9, 2025
State’s modest gas tax hike is only a good first step to modernize our roads and bridges
Opinion
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Susan Crabtree
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July 8, 2025
OMB: States used education grants for ‘left-wing agenda’
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Kimberly Ross
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July 3, 2025
U.S. Supreme Court picks parents, religious freedom over woke education bureaucracy
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