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News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
March 9, 2022

SALTER: Surviving ballot initiative measure welcome, but short of rights voters previously had

By: Sid Salter State Sen. John Polk, R-Hattiesburg, the chairman of the Senate Accountability, Efficiency and Transparency Committee, kept observers wondering for the first two months of the 2022 legislative session what would be the fate of efforts to revive the state’s ballot initiative process. To his credit, the pragmatic Polk last week revealed a…
News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
March 8, 2022

U.S. Senate passes resolution condemning bomb threats against HBCU

The threats were made around the country to HBCU’s, however no arrests have been made.  The United States Senate passed a bipartisan resolution that condemned the bomb threats at Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the country in February and reaffirmed their support for students at those institutions. The threats were aimed at HBCU’s across…