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Report: Rep. Thompson pushes $200 million in federal funds this month for Jackson water crisis

While officials on the state and local level continue to discuss the best options for a long-term fix of Jackson’s . . .

PEER:A Review of State Agency Procurement

Below is a press release from the Mississippi Joint Legislative PEER Committee: The PEER Committee recently released its report titled . . .

Tougaloo to receive $420,000 for security and mental health care in wake of HBCU bomb threats

Tougaloo College will get nearly half a million dollars from the federal government to shore-up campus security and mental health . . .

Wildcats aim to remain perfect against JDC

While the Columbia vs. Jeff Davis County rivalry doesn’t carry the same significance as it once did when the neighboring . . .

Reeves names Posey to head MDWFP, Beckett for Public Utilities

Gov. Tate Reeves on Friday named his picks to run the state Public Utilities Staff and the Mississippi Department of . . .

Carmen J. Walters answers questions from the audience and media after it was announced that she has been named Tougaloo College’s new president during a press conference at the Tougaloo’s Woodworth Chapel Monday, March 18, 2019. Credit: Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/Report For America

Ron DeSantis shows his stripes
Thu,09/22/22-8:24PM, 612 Reads
Granted, as political gamesmanship goes, the efforts by three Republican governors to bus or fly illegal immigrants to Democratic strongholds is brilliant, in a Machiavellian sort of way.
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Dog Eat Doug for Sep 22, 2022
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Thu,09/22/22-2:10AM, 39 Reads
Comic By: Brian Anderson

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The Meaning of Lila for Sep 22, 2022
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Thu,09/22/22-2:10AM, 29 Reads
Comic By: John Forgetta

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Lady Cougars enter postseason play with weekend trip to Brookhaven
By BRAD CROWE - Sports Editor
Fri,09/23/22-4:26PM, 878 Reads
The CA Lady Cougars will kick off postseason play this weekend with a trip to Brookhaven to compete in the 2022 Class 5A South State Fast-Pitch Tournament.
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Michelle Coleman of St. Martin, Miss., still lives in the home that her husband shot her, leaving her with nerve damage and telling scars. John Fitzhugh/MCIR

MCIR: ‘No one cared’ - Black women face disproportionate rates of abuse at the hands of their loved ones — and a lack of protection from the system meant to help them

Michelle Coleman’s marriage had been rocky and violent, but things seemed better when she and her husband of a decade moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 2017. After her new job at a medical unit in a jail, things “got physical,” she said, and she was forced to leave with her two children.