Perspective
SID SALTER: Legislature Should Heed Price’s Efforts to Restore Ballot Initiative Process
BOBBY HARRISON: Charter School Authorizer Board is not in Mississippi Constitution but is overseeing public schools
BILL CRAWFORD: Sanctioned Cruelty Pervades ICE Treatment of Immigrants
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
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
SH: FBI agent’s testimony links Morans to alleged bribery, conspiracy scheme
CL: Mississippi Supreme Court sides with AG Fitch in welfare fraud case
WAPT: Mississippi Supreme Court sides with AG rather than state auditor over welfare scandal money
ST: Mississippi secretary of state begins preparing for possible return to 2022 legislative maps
DJ: AI hallucinations prompt Aycock to boot lawyers from case
CL: Mississippi Supreme Court sides with AG Fitch in welfare fraud case
ST: Scott Colom gets $2 million in support from Democratic super PAC ahead of U.S. Senate race
SH: ‘Power, privilege and influence.’ Moran bribery trial underway in Hancock County
CL: Jackson bribery trial likely staying in Jackson. Here’s why
SH: Unofficial results show runoff will be needed to determine Ward 2 election winner
Blog
JJ: Supremes to Shad: Auditor Audits and Attorney General Litigates
MT: State Supreme Court rules AG Lynn Fitch, not Auditor Shad White, has power to sue over misspent welfare money
MAG: Insurance Commissioner threatens to pull licenses of over 70 producers after scheduled hearings
MAG: AWS marks $1 billion data center investment in Clinton
JJ: MBI Takes Over Covington County Cop Shooting
JJ: PERS Executive Director Going North
MAG: Democrat-aligned super PAC to include Colom in $50 million media blitz
MT: How will Amazon’s data centers impact Mississippians’ electric bills? We may never know
JJ: Wanted: Dead or Alive
MAG: EVE Energy makes U.S. Dept. of War’s roster of “Chinese military companies”
