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Former Mississippi House speaker appointed to Hinds County Economic Development Board
Former Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn, who helped pass a long list of economic bills during his time behind the gavel, will now play a role in future economic development projects in Hinds County. On Monday, the Hinds County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to add Gunn to the Hinds...
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Planned Religious Lesson Didn’t Go Forward After Complaint, Covington County Schools Say
An elementary school class in South Mississippi did not receive a planned class activity featuring religious content after a national organization warned the Covington...
Freedom Summer’s lasting impact: ‘They never forgot their mission’
Freedom Summer did more than change Mississippi. It changed America.
“So many of those volunteers went back to school with a new mission,” said Davis...
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How much pandemic relief funds has your school district spent?
Over the past two years, the state of Mississippi has received $2.5 billion in pandemic relief funds to improve education and help reduce COVID-related...
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An antidote to interest groups: sunrise review
Occupational licensing has grown in recent decades. As recently as the 1950s, just 5 percent of workers needed a license to work. It was...
Government
Governor, other Mississippi officials set to receive large pay raises
The Legislature as it winds up its 2022 session has approved large raises for statewide and other elected officials starting in 2024, after the...
Government
Lawmakers near finish line on spending unprecedented state and federal funds
Legislators worked late Monday night to fund state government at an unprecedented level and also to spend the bulk of $1.8 billion in federal...
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New Report from Auditor’s Office Shows Fifty Percent of College Grads Not Working in Mississippi Three Years Later
JACKSON, Miss. – As of 2020, only half of all Mississippi’s public university graduates worked in the state three years after leaving college. Further,...
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8 revelations from Part 1 of ‘The Backchannel’ investigation
During his last year as governor, Phil Bryant indulged NFL legend Brett Favre’s pleas for help with a pharmaceutical venture, which ended up receiving...