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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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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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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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Guest Editorial
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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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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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Guest Editorial
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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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August 26, 2022
WICKER: Biden officials should approve Delta flood control
Submitted by Senator Roger Wicker “These flood threats are not going away and require investments in new infrastructure,” Wicker writes. This week marks 17 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. Since that horrific storm, we have taken significant steps to prevent future disasters by improving our drainage systems, flood walls, and levees. The…
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Frank Corder
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August 26, 2022
Who’s purchased your news in Mississippi?
With mainstream media in massive freefall, it’s as easy to obscure sources that fund media outlets as it is to fund political campaigns – maybe easier. Knowing the companies funding the news used to be simple. You could open your morning newspaper or wait a few minutes at the end of a TV broadcast, and…
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Sarah Ulmer
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August 24, 2022
SALTER: Remembering Willie Morris, Barry Hannah and other friends at the Miss. Book Festival
Submitted by Sid Salter Last week’s Mississippi Book Festival provided an opportunity to reconnect with old and dear friends in celebrating extraordinary writers like the late Willie Morris and Barry Hannah with people who knew and loved them – including Willie’s immensely talented son David Rae Morris, now an accomplished writer, photographer, filmmaker and documentarian…
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Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press
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April 10, 2026
Soaring gas prices lead to biggest monthly inflation spike in four years
News
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Magnolia Tribune
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April 10, 2026
Magnolia Mornings: April 10, 2026
News
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Jeremy Pittari
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April 9, 2026
Governor Reeves cuts three line items out of opioid settlement funding
Business
Business
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Daniel Tyson
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April 9, 2026
Amazon investing another $12 billion in Central Mississippi
Business
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Frank Corder
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March 31, 2026
Channel South, $105 million mixed use development, aims to transform Gulfport’s downtown
Business
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Frank Corder
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March 26, 2026
DG Foods announces $1.19 million expansion
Culture
Culture
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Marilyn Tinnin
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April 10, 2026
Joan Williams: Gifted author and Faulkner’s protégé
Culture
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Alistair Begg
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April 10, 2026
Protected by His presence
Culture
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Marilyn Tinnin
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April 9, 2026
The Mississippi Gift Company spreads the best of the Magnolia State across the globe
Opinion
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Russ Latino
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April 8, 2026
The truth about ACA subsidies after the “One Big Beautiful Bill”
Opinion
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Sid Salter
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April 8, 2026
A new take on an old question about who Mississippians trust with life-altering decisions
Opinion
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Russ Latino
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April 3, 2026
Lawmakers owe Reeves a ‘thank you’ for stopping Medicaid expansion
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