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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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Governor Sanders has “Declared a state of Emergency” for Arkansas due to the winter storm. If your business or residence has sustained storm damage, please email pictures along with your name, physical address, and telephone number to dumasfirear@gmail.com
If repairs or costs are incurred, be sure to keep receipts pertaining to the damage—in the event that funding becomes available as part of the response.
All information will be passed along to the appropriate county and state officials.
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2 months ago
Governor Sanders has “Declared a state of Emergency” for Arkansas due to the winter storm. If your business or residence has sustained storm damage, please email pictures along with your name, physical address, and telephone number to dumasfirear@gmail.com
If repairs or costs are incurred, be sure to keep receipts pertaining to the damage—in the event that funding becomes available as part of the response.
All information will be passed along to the appropriate county and state officials.
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2 months ago
Governor Sanders has “Declared a state of Emergency” for Arkansas due to the winter storm. If your business or residence has sustained storm damage, please email pictures along with your name, physical address, and telephone number to dumasfirear@gmail.com
If repairs or costs are incurred, be sure to keep receipts pertaining to the damage—in the event that funding becomes available as part of the response.
All information will be passed along to the appropriate county and state officials.
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2 months ago
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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2 months ago
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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2 months ago
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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2 months ago
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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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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2 months ago
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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2 months ago
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.
By Barrett Donahoe - Magnolia Tribune on
2 months ago
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.
By Barrett Donahoe - Magnolia Tribune on
2 months ago
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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2 months ago
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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2 months ago
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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2 months ago
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.
By Leonardo Bevilacqua - Mississippi Today on
2 months ago
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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2 months ago
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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2 months ago
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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