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A metal awning at the Mr. Jiffy convenience store in Charleston lays in ruins on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026, after collapsing beneath the weight of accumulated ice. (Photo by Clay McFerrin, Copyright 2026, Emmerich Newspapers Inc.)
, A pickup navigates around a fallen tree on the iced-over Bethel Road north of Charleston on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (Photo by Clay McFerrin, Copyright 2026, Emmerich Newspapers Inc.)
, A truck drives past ice-coated leaning utility poles on Mississippi Highway 35 near the Paynes community on Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. (Photo by Clay McFerrin, Copyright 2026, Emmerich Newspapers Inc.)
Recovery efforts continue in the wake of the devastating Winter Storm Fern, with many Tallahatchians and residents across North Mississippi still languishing in darkness nearly two weeks after the storm hit.
As of Tuesday night (Feb. 3), 1,941, or 27%, of Tallahatchie County electrical customers had no power. In adjacent Yalobusha County, 3,227, or 40%, remained powerless.
By Clay McFerrin - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel on
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Power generator
JACKSON — When storms or outages leave your home without power, a generator can be a lifesaver— but it must be used safely and responsibly. Every year, improper generator use leads to fires, carbon monoxide poisoning and fuel shortages that could have been prevented with a little planning.
Generator Safety First:
• Never operate a portable generator inside a home, garage, carport, or near open windows and doors.
• Carbon monoxide is odorless and deadly; always place generators outdoors in a well-ventilated area.
By Beth Reiss - Communications Director, Mississippi Insurance Department on
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Tallahatchie County Emergency Management Agency on Thursday announced the opening of five emergency relief distribution centers, operating daily from noon until 7 p.m. through Sunday evening.
According to a post on TCEMA's Facebook page, "essential supplies" will be available at the sites, and hot meals will be served daily at 5 p.m. at each location.
By Clay McFerrin - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel on
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Fallen tree limbs cover a truck parked on Gay Street in Charleston on Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. (Photo by Clay McFerrin, Copyright 2026, Emmerich Newspapers Inc.)
PEARL — Mississippi residents who suffered storm damage during the winter weather event of January 23–27 are being urged to document and self-report their damage.
Residents can self-report damage through the self-report tool at MSEMA.org, which helps the state document the extent of damage and the number of people impacted by the storm.
Tragically, additional deaths have been reported, bringing the statewide total to 28.
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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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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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“Are we really going to be the Gestapo?” podcaster Joe Rogan asked. “‘Where’s your papers?’ Is that what we’ve come to?”
Uproar over ICE and Border Patrol aggressive tactics has begun to breach President Donald Trump’s fortress.
“Hate to say it, but they are all lying,” posted lifelong Mississippi Republican Pete Perry on Facebook. “Denial of what we have seen, what has been put in front of us – them and us – and ignored and lied about. We saw it. They saw it. And they know we and everyone else have seen the truth.”
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Over the past few years, Mississippi lawmakers have passed some critical conservative reforms. Last year, Mississippi became the first state in America to legislate to eliminate the income tax in 40 years. In 2022, we implemented flat tax reform. A few years before that, we passed important labor market reforms. In 2024, we reformed school funding to get more money into the classroom.
It is thanks to these flagship conservative reforms that Mississippi has enjoyed more economic growth in the past five years than over the previous fifteen combined.
By Douglas Carswell - Mississippi Center for Public Policy on
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Spin the truth, spin the youth,
confound the status quo
so they worry, fear and
Not understand
Do you trust your propaganda?
Those who owned the news
knew they could abuse
manipulate disenfranchised discord weaponized with indignant terrified urgency
Do you trust your propaganda?
The personally wounded, entitled,
idealistic, masters of displaced liability
and lacking self accountability
Do you trust your propaganda?
It is us against them, them against us
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Dear Editor:
With all due respect to the one or more state leaders who believe antifa (anTEEfuh) and basement dwelling keyboard warriors are the problem in Minneapolis, they are not. It is clearly the Gestapo like tactics of ICE.
Those leaders are glad we don't have that going on in Mississippi. I am, too, but I know why. They do, too. It is not because we don't have quite a few undocumented residents and a large city with a Democratic mayor. The difference is we have a Trumpublican leadership. Minnesota does not.
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Steve Jent, the exec director of Century Club Charities, announced recently that the Wayne-Sanderson Farms PGA golf tournament will no longer be held this year. So, after having a PGA professional golf tournament in Mississippi for 58 years we will have no sponsor, and therefore no tournament. Last year Century Club Charities, which organizes the tournament, gave $1 million to Blair Batson Children's Hospital, and $700m to several other charities.
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Louisiana’s U.S. Senator John Kennedy has written a national best-seller, “How to Test Negative for Stupid And Why Washington Never Will.” The preposterous conceit that drives the book is that everybody, or almost everybody, in the nation’s capital is stupid, with the exception of Senator Kennedy.
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Mississippi has been without a ballot initiative process since the 2021 state Supreme Court decision on Medical Marijuana Initiative 65 invalidated the process outlined in the state constitution.
A measure to restore Mississippi’s ballot initiative process was moved out of the Senate Elections Committee this week to restart the negotiation process between the two chambers.
By Frank Corder - Magnolia Tribune on
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An Occupational Licensure Board Consolidation Study Committee could soon look at ways to streamline state government if lawmakers agree to the proposed measure.
The committee responsible for streamlining Mississippi government approved the creation of a study committee to examine consolidating scores of state licensure boards into one department.
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The bill would also revise the state retirement system’s new Tier 5, cap superintendent salaries, and increase pay for school attendance officers, among other provisions outlined in the measure.
A bill that aims to address the ongoing teacher shortage in the state and proposes to address problems with the state’s retirement system under the new Tier 5 system passed out of the Mississippi House Education and Appropriations Committees on Tuesday.
By Jeremy Pittari - Magnolia Tribune on
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Below is a political opinion column by Corey DeAngelis:
Mississippi families can’t wait another year while politicians dither. And the Senate Republicans who sided with the radical left to block this education freedom must be held accountable at the ballot box.
Parents and students in Mississippi deserve better than the status quo that’s failing them. This week, the Mississippi Senate Education Committee killed the House’s universal school choice bill on a voice vote Tuesday, after it had already passed out of the House.
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January state collections came in just under half-a-million dollars above revenue estimates.
Mississippi revenues continue to exceed legislative estimates seven months into the current fiscal year. This is welcome news for lawmakers as they continue to make headway toward setting a new state budget this session.
The Legislative Budget Office on Wednesday shared that the January state revenue report showed collections came in at $451,213, or 0.08% above the revised revenue estimate.
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There have been recent reports of large job cuts across the country. E-commerce and technology giant Amazon, for example, is eliminating 16,000 corporate jobs, partly to reduce its organizational structure — but also because it expects “efficiency gains” as artificial intelligence is used more extensively across the company.
Almost at the same time, United Parcel Service said it will eliminate 30,000 delivery jobs — in part because it is getting less business from Amazon.
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Maybe there’s something to this notion that weather extremes are getting greater. We had record breaking high temperatures in December and record breaking low temperatures in January.
January 31 beat the all-time low for that day by one degree. This year’s low was 16 degrees, lower by one degree than January 31, 1966. The high that day this year was 28 degrees, a whopping five degrees lower than the January 31, 1996 high of 33 degrees. And the wind was blowing at 25 knots. Brrr!
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