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Two medical marijuana proposals will be on November ballot, some believe...
Rogelio V. Solis, APSen. Barbara Blackmon, D-Canton, said that the Legislator in 2015 put and alternative to the public education initiative on the ballot and both were defeated. Mississippians who...
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Former corrections chief takes job with state’s prison phone contractor
Rogelio V. Solis, Associated PressIn this Sept. 17, 2018 file photo, Pelicia Hall, Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner. speaks before a meeting of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee...
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Musgrove-Wicker 2008 contest provide bad omens for Espy in 2020 Senate race
Appointed U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., right, and Democrat Mike Espy shake hands following their televised Mississippi U.S. Senate debate in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. (AP...
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Coronavirus: How Mississippi’s major private employers are responding
Rogelio V. Solis, APIn this April 6, 2016, file photograph, vehicles are suspended above other installation stations as they are moved along the assembly line at the Nissan Canton Vehicle Assembly...
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State superintendent calls for state testing cancellation amid coronavirus...
Rogelio V. Solis, APCarey Wright, State Superintendent of Education, answers questions about staffing during a legislative working group hearing centering on agencies personnel and their cost...
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Dream season ends for top-seeded PRCC, but it was hardly started in juco...
Pearl River CC media relationsLast March, Pearl River coach Chris Oney was high-fived by his son, Caleb, when the Wildcats reached the Sweet 16 of the National Junior College Tournament. This year,...
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Standing ovation: Hinds Community College dance students ‘brought the house...
Photo courtesy of HCC dance director Tiffany JeffersonEighteen Hinds Community College students, along with two instructors and the instructors’ three children, traveled to New York City for HCC’s...
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State pressed to do more to prevent the coronavirus in prisons, jails
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaParchman prison. Jan. 15, 2020. Civil rights groups in Mississippi are urging Gov. Tate Reeves “to immediately develop evidence-based and proactive...
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USM’s Guidry: ‘Man, these are crazy times … We’ll worry about baseball later…’
Southern Miss athleticsSouthern Miss captain Matt Guidry interviewed after a game before the 2020 season ended. When the 2020 college baseball season ended so abruptly last week, Southern Miss senior...
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Mississippians prepare for impact of coronavirus on food supply
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaFreddie Mitchell, a Vicksburg Warren School District employee, wears a mask and gloves as she prepares to help deliver food to students in the...
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How Mississippi prisons are preparing for coronavirus
Utah Department of CorrectionsA file photo of a prison unit. No COVID-19 cases have been reported in Mississippi prisons as of Thursday morning, but the state is taking precautions in light of the...
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Governor closes public schools until April 17; state testing is cancelled
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaGov. Tate Reeves said the decision to close the state’s schools was “the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make.” Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves...
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Standing ovation: Hinds Community College dance students ‘brought the house...
Photo courtesy of HCC dance director Tiffany JeffersonEighteen Hinds Community College students, along with two instructors and the instructors’ three children, traveled to New York City for HCC’s...
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Sports legend’s Madison County horse ranch being paid for by nonprofit at...
Sports legend’s Madison County horse ranch being paid for by nonprofit at center of welfare embezzlement firestorm The Marcus Dupree Foundation was created to provide “equestrian activities for...
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Kennedy returns to coaching – and ‘just the way he’s wired’– at his alma...
Bryan Lynn, Icon Sportswire via APAndy Kennedy’s 12 years of court side experience at Ole Miss – and his quick wit – made him a natural for TV commentary. Now, it’s back to coaching at UAB. Just my...
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Unemployment office encourages Mississippians affected by COVID-19 to apply...
Mississippi Department of Employment ServicesThe Mississippi Department of Employment Services will open the call center March 21 and 22, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and has expanded weekday hours from 7...
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Unemployment office: COVID-19 impacted workers “eligible to file” but not...
Anna WolfeWebsite glitches have hampered some trying to file claims. One day after Mississippi’s unemployment office released a statement suggesting it intended to support workers affected by COVID-19,...
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Legislators discuss legalizing medical marijuana in effort to keep out of...
Wikimedia CommonsMedical marijuana could become incorporated in the state’s Constitution. By the time competing proposals to legalize medical marijuana appear on Mississippi’s November general election...
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Working-class Mississippians were already living hand to mouth. Then along...
Michelle Duke (center), a bartender at Georgia Blue, and her coworker Amber Rials (left) face hiccups while trying to file an unemployment claim for Rials after both women were laid off amid the...
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Coronavirus places uncertainty on state budget for legislators when they return
PixabayLegislative leaders will meet weekly to gauge the coronavirus’ impact. State revenue collections, which have been on an uptick during the past couple of years, are expected to take a dive in the...
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