Last Updated: Friday, July 03, 2026

Polls

Perspective

  • SLIM SMITH: Redistricting by another name is no less offensive
  • SID SALTER: Neshoba County Fair Evolves but Family Core Principles Remain
  • MAC GORDON: Pondering the next 250 years of U.S. and Mississippi history
  • BOBBY HARRISON: Mississippi Democrats hope they are not left saying ‘if’ again after midterm election
  • RUSS LATINO: An American Inheritance: The Longest Surviving Constitution on the Planet
  • SID SALTER: Delta Journalist Jim Abbott’s Paper Man Memoir Captures His Unique, Impactful Career
  • CHRIS MCDANIEL: A Bible verse on a cap should not frighten anyone
  • BILL CRAWFORD: Henry Barbour: Elections Matter
  • BOBBY HARRISON: Mississippi tried redistricting in 2001 special session. The majority party fumbled
  • SID SALTER: Supreme Court Stands Firm to Keep Justice for Murdered Quitman Family

State News

  • ST: Mississippi sets record with nearly 1.2 million non-farm jobs in May
  • CL: 10 facts to know about Mississippi
  • WLBT: Former governor’s son dies in plane crash
  • WLOX: Hancock Middle School students recognized in Congress for preventing bus crash
  • CL: Meta quietly enters the Mississippi data center economy
  • CL: From Borat to ‘Balls Up’ movie, Sacha Baron Cohen brings MS into the joke
  • CL: Confederate Memorial Day a Mississippi holiday. Some want to drop it
  • SH: Pascagoula suspect killed, was attempting to cause an explosion, officials say
  • GC: Greenwood Leflore Hospital Files For Bankruptcy As It Works Out Deal With UMMC
  • GC: Greenwood Hospital Could Close In June

Politics and Government

  • CL: How Mississippi reacted to the Supreme Court mail-in ballot ruling
  • NYT: Supreme Court Upholds Mississippi Late-Arriving Mail-In Ballot Law
  • ST: ‘It can be lost’: Reeves contends progress will stop if wrong governor is elected in 2027
  • MPB: Mississippi politicians gather at Neshoba County Fair to pitch their vision to voters
  • WTVA: Mississippi governor expects special session on redistricting
  • CL: New MS laws take effect on July 1, changing teacher pay, retirement
  • CL: What did U.S. Senate candidates say at Neshoba County Fair?
  • WLBT: ‘Race has a lot to do with it’: Mayor points to state’s pattern of racism in dealing with Jackson
  • CL: Jackson vs Mississippi again. Airport trial explained as trial finally begins
  • CL: Tax incentives fuel rise of data centers in Mississippi, experts, critics say

    Blog

  • JJ: 4th Suspect Arrested in Child Murder & Yes, We Know Him
  • MT: State gives K–12 teachers earlier access to money for classroom supplies
  • EMP: Andy Taggart: The Ideas That Made America
  • JJ: Who Will be the New District Attorney?
  • JJ: Catch & Release! Squawk! Catch & Release!
  • MT: Supreme Court ruling in Mississippi vote counting case deals blow to Trump effort
  • MAG: Hinds County DA Jody Owens pleads guilty in Jackson bribery case, resigns from office
  • MAG: Mississippi House not “scared” of conversations on “sacred” issues, Speaker White tells Neshoba fairgoers
  • JJ: Mayor Addresses Crime
  • JJ: Bigger Pie Forum: Whistling Past Mudberg
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