2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (922+ words) Of the nearly 20 people who spoke at the fourth redistricting meeting held Tuesday at Alcorn State University, only one person publicly said they support “race neutral” redistricting. Over the past several weeks, the Joint Committee on Redistricting and Reapportionment has…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (794+ words) A 2024 count identified 653 retail pharmacies serving nearly three million Mississippians. Meanwhile, one national analysis estimates that 244,045 Mississippi households already live in pharmacy deserts. And since 2021, 54 independent pharmacies have closed across our state. If lawmakers return to Jackson next year with…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (332+ words) There has been significant recent conversation about Canadian tariffs on many products, more specifically timber. This matters to Mississippi because timber is one of our state’s most important agricultural and economic commodities. Over 80% of the timber in Mississippi is privately…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (242+ words) Research conducted across the state on the long-term challenges impacting Mississippi will be presented as part of the 11th annual Advancing Mississippi Conference presented by the University Research Center (URC), a division of Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning. Planners said the…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1198+ words) For years, we were told socialism in the Democratic Party was a conservative fantasy. In 2026, it is running the largest city in America and winning Democratic primaries across the country. For a long time, when conservatives warned that socialism was…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (423+ words) All of us who lived through 9/11 can recount the moment we heard the news. That morning, I had attended breakfast at the Pentagon with Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. By the time I left, I had learned that both towers had been…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1325+ words) The Florida Panhandle has known a lot of different versions of me over the past 60 years. It knew me as a little boy whose father had just died, as a young man who had lost his way, as a newly…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (431+ words) Three cheers for a $189 million win for the state. But…those multi-millions will not teach your kids right from wrong. That’s up to…you. ​Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced this week that Mississippi will receive around $189 million from Meta…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (753+ words) For more than 200 years, generations of children in Columbus started school at a place that holds a distinction no other Mississippi school can claim. Franklin Academy, established in 1821, was the first free public school in the state. This fall, for…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (610+ words) Alistair Begg has been in pastoral ministry since 1975. Following graduation from The London School of Theology, he served eight years in Scotland at both Charlotte Chapel in Edinburgh and Hamilton Baptist Church. In 1983, he became the senior pastor at Parkside…...