Perspective

• ROGER WICKER: U.S. Border Crisis is a Self-Inflicted Wound
• BILL CRAWFORD: No Ballot Harvesting in Mississippi
• TIM KALICH: McDaniel has found a stooge
• BOBBY HARRISON: Legislative rules say conference meetings are open. But are they?
• BILL CRAWFORD: Governor Erupts Over Uncontroversial Bill
• BOBBY HARRISON: Brandon Presley could have one advantage in governor’s race: the issues
• AP: Editorial Roundup: Mississippi
• SID SALTER: Will Inflation Spur Mississippi to Cut or Eliminate Sales Tax on Food?
• MICHAEL WATSON: March Madness – Human trafficking on the move
• TAYLOR VANCE: Public has no way to see if state board nominees are qualified

State News

• SH: Singing River Health System has a buyer and it isn’t who most people expected
• CL: What are the odds? Pastor lost two homes to tornadoes in three months, starts over again
• NYT: A Water System So Broken That One Pipe Leaks 5 Million Gallons a Day
• SH: Mississippi has invested millions of dollars to save oysters. They’re disappearing anyway.
• SH: Stolen from Biloxi decades ago, a rifle used in 1847 was just found hidden in Delaware
• SH: Make that 42 months in prison Coast man will serve for cross burning
• SH: 30,000 bees live in the wall of a MS Coast classroom. Students want to save the hive.
• WAPT: Capitol police release photos of gunman wanted in fatal drive-by shooting
• CL: Jackson one of only three cities to host Barack Obama’s Change Collective
• SH: Storm chaser spots rare ‘vortex cloud’ twisting over Mississippi. What caused it?

Politics and Government

• DJ: House, Senate leaders still at impasse over public education funding
• DJ: Senate committee agrees to revive debate on restoring ballot initiative
• WLOX: Sec. of State Michael Watson talks about the death of Mississippi’s ballot initiative bill
• DJ: Rep. Jason White suggests reforming the powerful Appropriations Committee
• WLBT: It’s still early, but there are already three public polls looking ahead to likely Governor’s race match-up
• LLC: Ezell opening office in Laurel
• DJ: Court: Jackson missed step in trying to take land by airport
• NBC: Poll finds potentially competitive Mississippi governor’s race
• DJ: Legislature approves ‘voter purge’ process, but blocks online voter registration
• AP: Electric car stores will be restricted in Mississippi

Blog

• MAG: Insider Poll Results: March 10th-24th
• MT: IHL names Daniel J. Ennis next president of Delta State
• JJ: Initiative & Referendum Bill Only on Second “Dead”
• MAG: On day of Tennessee school shooting, Mississippi Lawmakers pass bill to allow school employees to be armed
• MT: Lawmakers miss deadline to pass state budget, will likely extend session
• MAG: Mississippi State Superintendent of Education nomination could be in jeopardy
• MT: Belzoni to Rolling Fork to Greenville: One mom’s mission to get her son medical help after the tornadoes
• JJ: Cummins Brags About Murders
• MT: Podcast: Biggest surprises of the wild 2023 legislative session
• MT: Hosemann accuses McDaniel of ‘clear violations’ of law with campaign money