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News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
June 23, 2021

SALTER: McCoy’s commitment to improving highways and education remembered, celebrated

By: Sid Salter In the pristine sanctuary of the lovely Gaston Baptist Church – a rural church in northwest Prentiss County roughly triangulated between Booneville, Rienzi, Thrasher and Jumpertown – family, friends, and political associates of the late Mississippi House Speaker William J. “Billy” McCoy gathered on June 14 to remember one of the architects…
News  |  Frank Corder  • 
June 23, 2021

Mississippi leads nation in personal income increases buoyed by federal COVID relief checks

Mississippi personal income increased by over 89% in 1st Quarter of 2021 due largely to pandemic relief checks. Across the nation, state personal income increased 59.7 percent at an annual rate in the first quarter of 2021 after decreasing 3.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to estimates released Tuesday by the Bureau…