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Rep. Robert Johnson III, the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, delivered a response to Gov. Tate Reeves’ annual State of t...

Gov. Tate Reeves, a second-term Republican, delivered his annual State of the State address on Feb. 26, 2024.Below is the transcript of...

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The House Republican leadership’s Medicaid expansion bill, House Bill 1725, was made public early Monday and assigned to the Medicaid Commi...

Konnor Griffin, a 17-year-old at Jackson Prep, is rated the No. 1 high school player available in this year's MLB Draft.The post Konnor Gr...

One year ago, Gov. Tate Reeves continued his years of steadfast defiance against Medicaid expansion and delivered a plea to his fellow Repu...

Mississippi Today’s Adam Ganucheau, Sophia Paffenroth, Geoff Pender, Bobby Harrison and Taylor Vance detail the first earnest debate ab...

Online snafus with the new and shorter FAFSA could see students choosing colleges without knowing the financial aid they might get or putti...

Mississippi Today Editor-at-Large Marshall Ramsey sits down with Dr. Will Crossley, 5th President of Piney Woods School and J.J. Anderson,...

Despite an objective school funding formula that state law says shall be fully funded, public schools were underfunded a cumulative total o...

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Several high-powered Mississippi public education groups sent a joint letter to lawmakers this week stressing that any rewrite of the formu...

Mississippi spends less money on college financial aid programs than almost every state in the Southern region. This holds true for bot...

On this day in 1929, baseball catcher Elston Howard, the first Black player named American League, MVP, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. T...

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A three-judge panel of the state Supreme Court on Thursday denied the Mississippi Republican Party’s request to dissolve a Hinds County cha...

Sen. Brice Wiggins, R-Pascagoula, told his fellow Senate Education Committee members Thursday he fears the state’s 145 public school distri...

One week after proposing a second new name in as many months, Mississippi University for Women has backtracked once again. President No...

Over a dozen bills have been introduced in the Legislature this session to revamp the state’s parole system, including at least one filed i...

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The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating two natural gas-fueled explosions in Jackson last week that left one person dead....

Even as the Mississippi Supreme Court considers whether it is constitutional for the state to provide public fund to private schools, the H...

The Legislature last week took its first substantive step of redrawing Mississippi’s circuit and chancery court districts, potentially alte...

The Ole Miss-Mississippi State basketball rivalry, 110 years old this month, will be renewed tonight at Humphrey Coliseum in Starkville. Ri...