Perspective

• SID SALTER: Gas Nightmares Exacerbated by Stagnant Gas Taxes Impact on Future Maintenance
• MICHAEL WATSON: Conservation Takes All of Us
• ROGER WICKER: Brace for Biden’s summer of inflation
• BOBBY HARRISON: Redistricting gives GOP chance to increase super majorities
• BILL CRAWFORD: Opposition to Medicaid Expansion Beginning to Look Dumb
• SID SALTER: Mistrust, Political Division, & Isolation Threaten More Than Elections, Economic Policies
• BILL CRAWFORD: What Services Should Conservative Government Provide?
• BOBBY HARRISON: Another Mississippi ‘trigger law’ to keep an eye on as Supreme Court deliberates: gay marriage
• ROGER WICKER: Taiwan Should Arm to Prevent Chinese Invasion
• WYATT EMMERICH: Wirt Yerger Was A Great Man And My Friend

State News

• DJ: Census report shows Mississippi was significantly undercounted
• CA: Parents in DeSoto County ‘wait impatiently’ for legalized medical marijuana for their kids
• SH: Will Mississippi high school athletes be allowed to take medical cannabis and play sports?
• SH: Children are eligible for medical marijuana in MS. Can students take it at school?
• SH: Want to apply for a Mississippi medical marijuana card? Here are the details and cost.
• CA: ‘You don’t limit Walgreens’: Zoning issues complicate medical marijuana in Southaven
• DCN: Hernando, Olive Branch are in, Southaven opts out of cannabis law
• CA: Medical marijuana to be discussed by Southaven, Hernando and Olive Branch
• CL: ‘He is a monster’: Mississippi man smashes state record with 131-pound blue catfish
• SH: Booth selling Confederate and Trump flags at MS Coast elementary school sparks uproar

Politics and Government

• WDAM: Candidate profiles for 4th Congressional District primary elections
• CL: Milwaukee Tool unveils design for new facility in Grenada, already hiring for 800 jobs
• WCBI: Secretary of State visits Columbus Rotary club to educate on his office duties
• SH: 9 challengers want Steven Palazzo’s seat in Congress. Meet candidates before primary.
• WLBT: Lt. Gov. Hosemann urges city, county to move on misdemeanor holding facility
• DT: Olive Branch Chamber of Commerce members learn about “Tackle the Tape”
• CL: Contested races expected for Mississippi June primary election
• DJ: State agency targets Family Resource Center with lawsuit over misspending claims
• WTOK: Lt. Delbert Hosemann discusses water and sewer grants in Meridian
• DJ: Lt. Gov. Hosemann: Parchman’s long-term survival is ‘problematic’

Blog

• JJ: Here We Geaux Again
• MT: Divided panel of federal judges refuses to rule on constitutionality of redrawn U.S. House map
• YALL: Mississippi DOR releases checklist for potential medical marijuana dispensary applicants
• MT: Chief Justice Randolph gave state judges a pay raise, then lawmakers gave them another
• JJ: Former RSS Employee Indicted for Bribery
• YALL: AG Lynn Fitch named to TIME’s annual TIME100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world
• JJ: Chop Shop Busted
• YALL: MS03: Congressman Guest talks re-election campaign as Primary nears
• MT: Podcast: When can Mississippians get medical marijuana?
• MT: Rising costs, contract work exacerbate nursing shortage for state’s safety net hospital