Last Updated: Friday, June 05, 2026

Polls

Perspective

  • SID SALTER: Third of June & Haunting Mystery of Gentry’s Ode to Billy Joe’ Remains
  • MAC GORDON: The sticking point Mississippi, and the South, cannot shake
  • BILL CRAWFORD: Millsaps, Ole Miss Top College Scoreboard Earnings Report
  • BOBBY HARRISON: US Supreme Court must answer key questions after its Callais redistricting decision
  • SID SALTER: For Most, Gas Prices Are Top Public Policy Concern Arising Out of Iran
  • ROGER WICKER: Deterrence Is Cheaper Than War
  • BOBBY HARRISON: Obsession with Bennie Thompson leads to cases of TDS for Mississippi politicians
  • BILL CRAWFORD: Where is Conservative Outrage Over Trump’s $1.8 Billion Settlement?
  • SID SALTER: 2nd-Gen Jurist Brings Impactful Nature on Federal Bench to Close at Age 85
  • LLC ED: Just do it, Gov.

State News

  • 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
  • CL: Is another Amazon data center coming to Madison County?
  • ST: NASA’s first manned moon mission in over 50 years wouldn’t be possible without Mississippi

Politics and Government

  • CL: Mississippi lawmakers talk school consolidation, closures in state
  • SH: Ex-Mississippi educator from Biloxi, two others sentenced in $400K embezzlement scheme
  • CL: Mississippi rural health program least transparent in U.S.
  • CL: Who is running for Mississippi governor, other state offices in 2027?
  • ST: Mississippi investing $5 million in 3 forestry projects
  • AP: US Supreme Court rules for Mississippi death row inmate over racial bias
  • CL: Office of Courts asks MS Legislature for more money to pay judges
  • CL: Five maps explaining what to know about redistricting in Mississippi
  • CL: 75% of MS 3rd graders pass reading test
  • ND: Neshoba County Fair political speaking schedule announced

    Blog

  • MT: Can consolidations fix dysfunctional school districts?
  • JJ: Empower Podcast: Can the Delta Rise Again?
  • JJ: Reversed!
  • MT: Jackson police chief refuses to say if homicide officers must reapply for their roles
  • MAG: State Rep. Price Wallace died Wednesday
  • MAG: Judge Wingate calls newly created Metro Jackson Water Authority “an unexecuted contingency”
  • JJ: Fowler Goes to Prison, Attorney & Son Accused of Smuggling Contraband into Jail
  • MAG: Mississippi’s SNAP error rate is said to be down but state still likely on the hook for millions
  • MT: Mississippi developer plans to move forward with data center plans, even as state declines to give ruling
  • JJ: More Liquor Stores Declare War on Ruan
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