3 months 2 weeks ago
Robert St. John writes that Christmas doesn’t need snow, or pricy ornaments, or even working lights. It just needs a place like Bellewood Drive.
Some families grow up with postcard Christmases—crackling fires, golden retrievers by the hearth, snowflakes on the St. Augustine. Then there was us. Our holidays were about as “Hallmark” as a ham sandwich on white bread.
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3 months 2 weeks ago
The total request by the Mississippi Community College Board is anticipated to be $213.5 million this coming session which starts in January.
Kell Smith, Executive Director of the Mississippi Community College Board, gave the Senate Universities and Colleges Committee an update on the state system last week, requesting $28 million for a 6 percent salary increase.
By Jeremy Pittari - Magnolia Tribune on
3 months 2 weeks ago
Below is an opinion column by Kimberly Ross:
The normalization of violence against those one simply does not like continues apace. It is high-profile and deeply political. The solution is not easy because the disease has metastasized.
By Kimberly Ross - Magnolia Tribune on
3 months 2 weeks ago
Mississippi Valley State University has the highest maintenance backlog totaling $108.2 million, with the University of Southern Mississippi close behind with $107.3 million.
Brad Rowland, Associate Commissioner for Real Estate and Facilities for the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning, provided the Senate Universities and Colleges Committee with the results from the most recent Gordian report last week.
By Jeremy Pittari - Magnolia Tribune on
3 months 2 weeks ago
Below is a political opinion column by Sid Salter:
Columnist Sid Salter asks, “How serious is the Legislature about public pension reforms?”
Across the U.S., public pension unfunded liabilities generally decreased, falling about 9 percent from $1.62 trillion in 2024 to $1.48 trillion in 2025. That’s the good news. The unwelcome news is that a recession or other severe economic downturn could raise state and local public pension debt to as much as $2.74 trillion by 2026.
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3 months 2 weeks ago
Evan Turnage enters the race, saying he has access in Washington D.C. Bennie Thompson doesn’t have. The MS-02 race is shaping up to be one of Thompson’s most contested cycles in his 32 years in office. He now has a Democrat challenger along with an Independent and two Republicans in the race.
Evan Turnage was born in Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District in 1992.
“This was the poorest district and the poorest state in the country,” Turnage said of the Mississippi Delta region.
By Frank Corder - Magnolia Tribune on
3 months 2 weeks ago
See what’s in the National Defense Authorization Act and how the defense spending will impact the Magnolia State.
Mississippi’s U.S. Senators voted in favor of the FY2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Wednesday, sending the $901 billion in defense spending bill to President Donald Trump’s desk.
By Frank Corder - Magnolia Tribune on
3 months 2 weeks ago
MSU scientists cast light on Christmas tree research
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3 months 2 weeks ago
USDA leaders visit MSU to honor Jenkins’ 64-year career, highlight ‘Mississippi Model’ partnership
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University welcomed leaders from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, or ARS, to campus on Tuesday [Dec. 16] to celebrate the retirement of Johnie Jenkins, an ARS Hall of Fame research plant geneticist whose 64-year career has had a global impact on agriculture.
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For decades, leisurely drives through western Madison County would take you through rolling hills rich in farmland, pastures, and timber. Row crops could be found growing in the mellow, brown loam soils along rivers and creek bottoms. Prime cattle would be grazing in knee-deep Bermuda grass, loafing under mammoth oaks. During spring, blooming Dogwoods would explode resembling that of a new-fallen snow through the moist soil basins. During winter, Possumhaw would line the fencerows revealing their vibrant red berries offering food and cover for cardinals, cedar waxwings, and quail.
By Jeff North on
3 months 2 weeks ago
Important state and national stories, market and business news, sports and entertainment, delivered in quick-hit fashion
By Magnolia Tribune Staff on
3 months 2 weeks ago
Important state and national stories, market and business news, sports and entertainment, delivered in quick-hit fashion
In Mississippi
1. Illegal immigrants arrested in Madison County
WLBT reports that ICE agents arrested several immigrants in Canton over the weekend.
By Magnolia Tribune Staff on
3 months 2 weeks ago
Grenada Police Department Chief George Douglas works to call in K-9 units to assist the department after a bomb threat forced evacuation of the Grenada Medical Complex Wednesday morning.
Grenada law enforcement officers responded to a bomb threat Wednesday morning at the Grenada Medical Complex, prompting a full evacuation and multi-agency investigation.
By Adam Prestridge on
3 months 2 weeks ago
This morning, driving to work, I listened to Mississippi Public Radio airing a current interview with a senior official in the national Democratic Party. Asked what he recommended to his colleagues and candidates in next year’s elections, the gentleman offered a scripted, rehearsed reply: “Well, we could litigate…recommend Congressional tax relief…..they asked me to make a speech at……”
By Linda Berry on
3 months 2 weeks ago
For decades, Mississippi has been the punchline in national discussions about economic performance - often ranked at the bottom in income, education, and opportunity.
But something remarkable has happened in recent years: the Magnolia State is undergoing a genuine resurgence, driven not by federal handouts or gimmicks, but by principled free-market reforms.
By Douglas Carswell - Mississippi Center for Public Policy on
3 months 2 weeks ago
“Many a wintry hour did I hear the church clock strike, when I was sitting in my cheerless bedroom, wrapped in my little great-coat, poring over a book.”
By Johnathan Kettler on
3 months 2 weeks ago
An Advent story entitled “An Unexpected Lesson” led to a captivating lesson from ChatGPT.
Requested to write a story on an unexpected consequence in Matthew 2, on a lark, I asked ChatGPT for help: “Please write me a 250 to 300 word Advent story that focuses on the Bible story of the three wise men following the star to Bethlehem. The plot should highlight the unexpected consequence of their tarrying with Herod which allows Herod to order the death of newborn boys.”
By Bill Crawford on
3 months 2 weeks ago
Fentanyl is a highly potent synthetic opioid drug that has a legitimate use in painkilling--such as in advanced cancer--as well as other illegitimate uses in pleasurable situations. This addicting drug is 30 to 50 times more potent than heroine, and 100 times more than morphine. Analogues of fentanyl often cannot be detected in urine samplings. Most of the precursors of the drug come from China. who ship them to cartels in central American countries. The cartels arrange for the production of the final drug.
By Peter Gilderson on
3 months 2 weeks ago
Extension dietitian to serve on
new Dairy Alliance Collective
By Susan Collins-Smith
MSU Extension Service
RAYMOND, Miss. -- A Mississippi State University Extension Service instructor has been selected to serve as a member of The Dairy Alliance Dietitian Collective.
Qula Madkin, an Extension dietitian nutritionist in the MSU Department of Biochemistry, Nutrition and Health Promotion, is one of eight health professionals from across the Southeast selected for the inaugural collective.
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MSU College of Forest Resources recognizes outstanding faculty and staff
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s College of Forest Resources recently honored faculty and staff for their dedication and service to the college’s mission of fostering the management, conservation and sustainable use of forest, wildlife and aquatic resources to benefit the people of Mississippi, the nation and world at its annual awards ceremony.
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