Perspective

• ND ED: Governor’s secret proclamation brings light to serious issue
• EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS: Mississippi unlikely to ease its election laws
• BILL CRAWFORD: State Indifference Leads to “Hungriest County”
• AARON RICE: Stop the eyebrow police: Lawsuits led to licensing reform in MS, but more work needed
• BOBBY HARRISON: Mississippi lawmakers get big budget assist from federal stimulus money
• SID SALTER: VMT Tax Proposal Penalizes Rural States Lacking Public Transportation
• JASON SHELTON: Presley’s approach to broadband will serve North Mississippi well
• ROGER WICKER: Open-border policies have led to massive surge with no end in sight
• BILL CRAWFORD: GOP Leadership Witless on Medicaid Math
• BOBBY HARRISON: The 2021 session might be remembered most for what didn’t happen

State News

• SH: Mississippi should pause use of Johnson & Johnson vaccine, health dept. advises
• SH: $55M coming to Coast for over 70 projects: Better piers, parks, boat launches and more
• SH: Mississippi reports first cases of two California COVID-19 variants
• SH: Mississippi reports first cases of two California COVID-19 variants
• AP: Mississippi rewrites ‘confusing’ COVID-19 scheduling script
• DJ: Body camera footage details Tupelo police detention of Wesley Wells
• CL: Severe weather: Mississippi schools announce closures, switch to virtual learning Wednesday
• CL: Severe weather: Mississippi schools announce closures, switch to virtual learning Wednesday
• CL: Coronavirus in Mississippi: 679 new cases, 19 deaths reported Thursday
• SH: Coast grocery store worker placed on leave after shoppers say they were called N-word

Politics and Government

• CL: Advocacy group to Reeves: Throw Confederate Heritage Month ‘into the dustbin of history’
• ND: Hosemann won’t close door to Medicaid expansion in Mississippi
• DJ: Mississippi Supreme Court weighs legality of state’s medical marijuana ballot initiative
• CD: Hosemann: New federal funds should change state’s trajectory
• WCBI: Lt. Governor speaks on revived plan for a teacher pay raise
• CL: Mississippi might have trouble hosting NCAA championships because transgender athletes law
• WLBT: Sen. McDaniel says ‘to hell with the NCAA’ after potential boycott over trans legislation
• WT: Sen. Roger Wicker: GOP willing to negotiate on infrastructure
• CD: Legislature faces deja vu after ballot initiative for Medicaid expansion is filed
• WJTV: Jackson County sheriff running for Congress seat held by Rep. Palazzo

Blog

• JJ: Foreigners Busted w/Narcotics in Madison
• JJ: WLBT Busts Lumumba
• MT: Pay raises for Mississippi higher ed employees: Too little, too late?
• JJ: Unbelievable
• MT: Mississippi Supreme Court medical marijuana case: What you should know
• YALL: NCAA threatens to withhold events over transgender state laws. Some say to Hell with the NCAA.
• JJ: Mudbug Melee
• MT: NCAA threatens to pull Mississippi college baseball regionals, other championships over trans athletes law
• JJ: Having a Conversation about the Conversation
• MT: Hospital Association backs Mississippi Medicaid expansion ballot initiative