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Each nine weeks Greenlee selects a Character Kid from each class. These students have demonstrated citizenship characteristics.
1st row-Wyatt Weeks, Athen Goodwin, Emma McKinney
2nd row-Dottie Kate Myers, Amos Ingram, Kelmari Haymon, Karsyn Thompson, Kylan Dotson, Alayla winters, Kaison Ellis, Jakayla Ashford
3rd row-Luis Perez, Lila Dean, Ashley Turner, Cayleigh Parkjer, Canaan Cochran, Deena Dean
Not Pictured: Warren Elsner and Regan Logan
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College of Arts and Sciences pairs books, MSU cheese at ‘book tasting’ event
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s College of Arts and Sciences invites the campus community to sample something new this month with its first “book tasting” event, a creative twist that pairs books, conversation and Mississippi State flavor.
“A&S Book Tasting: A Showcase of Authors” will be held Thursday, Feb. 19 from 4-5:30 p.m. in the John Grisham Room of Mitchell Memorial library.
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Winter Storm Fern Drives Increased Energy Use
Atmos Energy has solutions that can help
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Forest carbon credits
for state landowners
By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Extension Service
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Carbon dioxide is the most commonly produced greenhouse gas, the substances that trap heat in the atmosphere keeping the planet warm enough for life.
Carbon is stored in high amounts in timber, of which Mississippi has an abundance. The state ranks in the top 10 nationally in timber production, with close to 20 million acres of timberland.
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MSU International Fiesta to hold interest meetings for potential performers, vendors
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Those interested in participating in this spring’s 34th annual International Fiesta at Mississippi State University are encouraged to attend one of two interest meetings this month.
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From page to stage: New York poet Kimiko Hahn visits MSU for an evening of poetry, insight
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Kimiko Hahn, New York state poet and acclaimed author of nearly a dozen collections of poetry, will join Mississippi State University as a visiting writer on Tuesday, Feb. 17 for a special night of selected readings and celebration of the written word.
Free and open to the public, the event sponsored by MSU’s College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of English is at 5:30 p.m. in McCool Hall’s Taylor Auditorium.
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Upcoming Voter Registration Deadline for the 2026 Primary Election for U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate
JACKSON, Miss. – Applicants who register in-person in the Circuit Clerk’s Office and those who mail registration applications post-marked no later than February 9, 2026, are eligible to vote in the 2026 Primary Election for U.S. House of Representatives & U.S. Senate on March 10, 2026.
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Robert St. John says sometimes we’re too hard on Mississippi. We know the flaws. We’ve lived with them. But we can’t see the forest for the pine trees, as they say.
Marco had never seen a pine plantation.
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Below is an opinion column by Barrett Donahoe:
This is not about politics. It is about students. It is about families, and ensuring that every child—regardless of zip code or income—has access to an education that nurtures both the mind and the heart.
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Below is an opinion column by Bobby Harrison:
The effort of Mississippi House leaders and others to expand programs providing public funds to private schools validates the oft-repeated quote that “history may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
Efforts by Mississippi legislators to send public funds to private schools go back to at least the 1960s.
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Audience members express emotion as public comments are given during the DeSoto County School Board meeting in Hernando, Miss. on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
In DeSoto County, some community members and the school board want Michele Henley, the board’s former president, to resign. They say she wrote a letter and testified in support of a woman who was eventually convicted of sexual battery against a minor. Henley has denied those accusations.
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Below is an opinion column by Adam Ganucheau:
How Black representation at every level of government could be gutted if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.
Mississippi’s political system could soon look more like 1966 than 2026, and it’s time to acknowledge the full extent of the greatest threat to the American Experiment in decades
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Fredrick “Geno” Womack didn’t need to see the data to know that Jackson’s homicides had fallen.
Gone are the nightmarish days of 2020, when Womack, the executive director of Operation Good, said he could step outside his nonprofit’s south Jackson headquarters and smell the metallic scent of crystal meth in the air. It’s been years, he said, since he has seen an armed man roaming the sidewalks of McDowell Road.
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Lonnie Whiting Jr., a resident at the Unita Blackwell Stay Apartments in Mayersville, expressed joy in having electricity restored at the complex. "Everything is electric, so it was hard, but we making it," Whiting said on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
Preparing to feed a revolving door of linemen Monday at her restaurant Chuck’s Dairy Bar, Tracy Harden recalled the winter storm of 1994, the last one that resembled what many Mississippians have lived through the past two weeks. It was then, 32 years ago, she stumbled upon a lineman she still knows well to this day.
“He was up top a light pole, and I saw him and I told my mom, ‘I’m going to marry that man up there,’” she said of meeting her now-husband, Tim.
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Measures to improve prison health care access and create stronger safeguards against the denial of care in Mississippi prisons survived the first legislative deadline on Tuesday, but several also died.
The legislation is part of a reform package introduced by Rep. Becky Currie, the Republican House Corrections Chairwoman from Brookhaven.
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The Senate Elections Committee adopted a measure on Tuesday that would, at least partially, restore the system to allow Mississippians to bypass the Legislature and put issues to a statewide vote.
The committee voted to approve Senate Concurrent Resolution 518, which would require initiative organizers to gather signatures from at least 10% of registered voters in the state, or roughly 170,000 signatures, before it can go on a ballot.
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The House of Representatives debate House Bill 2 on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, at the State Capitol in Jackson. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
The Senate previously passed a $2K raise. The two chambers would have to reach an agreement.
Every Mississippi lawmaker has voted so far to give teachers a pay raise.
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There are moments in a republic when the noise of slogans must give way to the quiet insistence of conscience.
This is one of them.
We are told, almost daily, that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pursuing the “worst of the worst.” Instead, the machinery of enforcement has turned its iron attention on those who have committed no crime beyond believing, worshiping, and hoping in the wrong direction.
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A hallway remains empty in a closed area of the Delta Health System in Greenville, Miss., Tuesday, February 14, 2022. Credit: Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today
As Mississippi prepares to spend tens of millions of federal dollars to strengthen rural health care, lawmakers in both state legislative chambers have advanced bills aimed at increasing transparency and oversight.
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