City & County
Hinds Hires Lobbyist
With District 4 Supervisor Phil Fisher as the lone dissenting vote, the board agreed to hire attorney Firnist Alexander as the county's lobbyist.
City & County
Sixth Man Guilty in 'Night Rides'
A sixth man is guilty in a hate-crime conspiracy that played out in spring 2011 in Jackson.
Cover
The Circus is in Town: 2013 Legislative Preview
Gov. Phil Bryant has big plans for the 2013 legislative session. For the past few months, he’s been busy selling his agenda.
Person of the Day
Tamarra Grace Butler
The person who replaces state Sen. Alice Harden, who died earlier this month, will have some big shoes to fill to continue Harden's legacy of fighting for public education.
Civil Rights
Jail 'Pipeline' Comes Into Focus
In DeSoto County Schools and Jackson Public Schools, more than 90 percent of school arrests are for misdemeanors, not felonies, which some say feeds the school-to-prison pipeline.
Health Care
Coalition Will Fight for Health Care
More than one dozen statewide health-care, civil-rights and religious organizations plan to leverage hundreds of thousands of their members, parishioners and supporters to increase health care access for 300,000 Mississippians.
Business
Enviros Warn of 'Kemper Cliff'
The Mississippi Sierra Club is warning about a controversial power project sending electricity ratepayers over the "Kemper Cliff."
City & County
Restaurants, Olympians and Metrocenter
This morning, government and tourism officials announced that Jackson would host the Junior Olympics National Meet in May 2014, Jackson's first-ever Olympic qualifying competition.
City & County
Hinds Could Increase Library Access
District 5 Supervisor Kenneth Stokes believes library branches in rural Hinds County are not meeting the needs of residents.
Business
A Duty to Disclose?
Mississippi environmentalists say former Gov. Haley Barbour isn't telling the whole truth about his eager boosterism for Mississippi Power Co.'s Kemper County Coal project.
Civil Rights
More Hate Crime Charges Coming?
Early one summer morning, after a night of underage binge drinking, a group of young people from Rankin County thought it would be fun to drive into Jackson and kill …
Civil Rights
Rebel Land: A Racial History of Oxford and Ole Miss
“I saw years of work of digging out of this hole covered back up. I felt quite disgusted, and there are still some feelings there of discontent even today.”
City & County
Child-Care Providers Seek Lawmaker Help
Child-care providers are asking state and federal lawmakers to intervene in their ongoing fight against a controversial new finger-scanning program.
Person of the Day
Sen. Alice Harden
As the minority party in the Mississippi Senate, the conventional wisdom would suggest that Democrats don't tally many legislative victories.
City & County
Abortion Clinic Owner Responds to Suit
The "Abortion Queen" has issued a proclamation: People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
City & County
Hinds Jail Could be Privatized
The beleaguered Hinds County Detention Center at Raymond could come under new management—a private corrections firm.
State
Hinds Looks at Jail Privatization
After a series of high-profile incidents at Hinds County's Raymond Detention Center that sometimes bordered on comical, the county will look at the possibility of privatizing some or all of …
City & County
JPS Supe Addressing Mental Health
Last school year one Jackson student was suspended from school 19 times, Jackson Public Schools Superintendent Cedrick Gray said this morning at Koinonia Coffee House's Friday Forum.
Personhood
Seven Hospitals Deny Jackson Abortion Clinic
The last clinic where Mississippi women can get an abortion is once again in peril.
City & County
A Curfew-to-Prison Pipeline?
High-school student Donovan Barner calls a proposed curfew ordinance "blasphemous" because enforcing the law requires police officers to assume all teenagers are criminals.
State
Forrest County Jail 'Backsliding'
Forrest County is moving backward when it comes to making changes at its youth detention center.
City & County
DHS Makes Its Case for Scanners
After weeks of offering up generalities about why it instituted a controversial new program, the Mississippi Department of Human Services finally outlined its rationale for requiring some poor parents to …
Politics
Bryant Budget Steadfast in Health Care Opposition
Sen. Hillman Frazier said the state would miss out on millions of dollars in economic activity if it declines to expand Medicaid under the federal health-care reform law.
City & County
Stokes Takes Another Bite at Curfew Apple
Ward 3's Larita Cooper-Stokes has been trying to reinstitute a city curfew for young people.
City & County
Finger Scanners: 'A Child-Care Beef Plant'?
Angry and disappointed—that's how child-care center operator Petra Kay described how she feels about the way a state agency has handled implementation of a new tracking system for children of …
Politics
Ole Miss Fracas Weeks in the Making
Around the time Fox News Channel was calling the presidential election in favor of President Barack Obama, black students at the University of Mississippi erupted with joy.
Politics
The Young and the Restless
At first blush, Ghali Haddad sounds like a voter whom Republicans wouldn’t have to invest energy courting.
Politics
A Threat to Power
From the beginning, no matter what the clueless pundits said about how close the presidential race would be, there was one huge thing standing in the way of a Republican …
Education
Committee Shuffle Clears Way for Charters
The first salvo in the coming battle over charter schools in Mississippi came this week when House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, shuffled the pieces of a key legislative committee.
Civil Rights
Ole Miss Student Describes Campus Disturbance
Black students taunted white students about the victory of the nation's first black president over Mitt Romney slogans from Young Jeezy's 2008 post-electoral creed "My president is black."
Person of the Day
Dr. Carolyn Meyers
It's a different world from the one in which Dr. Carolyn Meyers studied alloys as a graduate engineering student at Georgia Tech.
City & County
Abortion Foes Eye Jackson Clinic
Anti-abortion activists from six states are occupying each of the four corners at State Street and Fondren Place as part of a nationwide campaign known as States of Refuge.
Education
Ole Miss Moves Toward Healing
Less than one day national election results sent racial tensions perilously close to boiling over into a much uglier episode, Ole Miss students are quickly moving towards healing and reconciliation.
Business
GOP Praises Canada, Presents Agenda
Republican Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves plans to reignite the charter school debate in the next legislative session.
Education
Transforming Jackson From the Kids Up
Patrice Gilbert Alma Powell and Walter Isaacson, both heavyweights of the nonprofit world, will engage Jackson residents on ways to transform our community at a Nov. 12 forum.
1000s of Vote Forms Sitting in Circuit Clerk's Office
Five large boxes containing hundreds if not thousands of valid voter registration forms are piled in a corner of the Hinds County Circuit Clerk's office.
Politics
Problems Persist in First Half of Election Day
Dozens of gold-shirted volunteers at the NAACP's Protect the Vote headquarters are busily fielding a steady stream of calls from across the state to the organization's voter helpline.
Politics
Missing Voter Registrations in Hinds?
The Mississippi NAACP and Hinds County Circuit Clerk's office are pointing fingers at each other over an unknown number of missing voter-registration forms.
National
Make Sure Your Vote Counts
The NAACP's Protect The Vote program is designed to educate voters and volunteers about voting rights in Mississippi.
City & County
North Jackson Pushing Up Murder Rate
The latest crime information from the Jackson Police Department shows a 36.6 percent increase in homicides.
Politics
Factcheck: Morris, Nunnelee Debate in Oxford
On Oct. 25, incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Alan Nunnelee (1st District) met Democratic challenger Brad Morris, an Oxford attorney, at the University of Mississippi for a half-hour face-off.
Biz Roundup
Halloween Savings, Christmas Wrappings, Sandy and Bras
Hope Credit Union is holding a training session on October 31 designed to help families of more than 130 capital city-area children save for college.
Politics
Brad Morris: Poised for a Dem Upset?
Of Mississippi's three congressional districts represented by Republicans, Democrats' best hope of wresting away one seat might lie with Brad Morris in the 1st Congressional District.
Personhood
Banks Raises Personhood in Court Race
In its final push toward the Nov. 6 election, Rep. Earle Banks' campaign for a seat on the state's supreme court is deploying a different strategy in his race against …
Interview
William Waller Jr.: No Agenda
Criticized for political donations, Mississippi State Supreme Court Chief Justice William Waller Jr. says as long as the state constitution requires judges to run for office, contributions are necessary.
Politics
Who is Kris Kobach?
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is representing Mississippi in a lawsuit against the Obama administration.
State
The Medicaid Question: Expand or Not?
In a less than eyebrow-raising new report, Mississippi's University Research Center has concluded that covering more people with Medicaid would cost the state millions upon millions of dollars.
Politics
Hosemann's Office: No Voter ID Needed
Up until recently, a Mississippi citizen looking for voting information on the secretary of state's website might have been confused.
Politics
Mud Flies in State Supreme Court Race
Earle S. Banks Sr., a Mississippi State Supreme Court candidate and lawmaker, along with his supporters, is stepping up attacks against Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr., the incumbent Banks is …
DHS Pauses Finger Scan Expansion
The Mississippi Department of Human Services is putting off the rollout of a controversial finger scanning program for daycare centers.
