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Marshall Ramsey: Drew’s New Job Mississippi Today.

Some top lawmakers in Mississippi’s Republican-controlled Legislature are prepared to make it easier for students to transfer between public...

News headlines the past couple weeks have tracked thusly:Mississippi tax cut plan would cut $1.1 billion in income.Mississippi’s Re...

Don’t look now, but the Magnolia State has two ranked teams on a collision course for a Saturday showdown in Starkville this weekend. Rick a...

Mississippi Today is proud to announce the launch of a new section called Mississippi Today Ideas.Mississippi Today Ideas will serve as...

The former leader of Mississippi’s public health insurance program for children, pregnant women, low income and disabled people has been tap...

Back in mid-December, Ole Miss basketball coach Chris Beard joined our Crooked Letter Sports podcast to talk about his Rebels, who had won n...

Drax, the British owner of wood pellet plants in Mississippi and Louisiana that has paid millions in fines and settlements for violating sta...

A House committee passed a major tax cut plan on Tuesday evening that would eventually abolish the state income tax, reduce taxes on groceri...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters.The fires sweeping across Los Angeles County for th...

In this episode of Mississippi Stories, Mississippi Today Editor-at-Large Marshall Ramsey took a tour of one of the best kept secrets in Jac...

Lawmakers will file another bill this session to help low-income pregnant women get into the doctor earlier – after the federal government r...

Jan. 14, 1963 On the same portico of the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery where Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president of the Confe...

Nate Rosenfield and Brian Howey are examining the power of sheriffs’ offices in Mississippi as part of The New York Times’s Local Investigat...

I also paint airplanes, so I changed up my style. Watching the pilots battle the Los Angeles fires is one of the most incredible acts of ski...

Marshall Ramsey: Renovations Mississippi Today.

A state agency, counties and community mental health centers reported vastly different numbers of people who spent time in jail during the c...

House leaders on Friday unveiled a sweeping tax cut proposal that would eventually abolish the state income tax, slash taxes on groceries, i...

House and Senate leaders have remained at odds on efforts to expand Medicaid coverage to the working poor in Mississippi, but they agree on...

Marshall Ramsey: Rates of Destruction Mississippi Today.

Jan. 13, 1990 Douglas Wilder, former governor of Richmond, Va. Credit: Courtesy of the National Park ServiceDouglas Wilder, who bec...

Sen. Dean Kirby, second ranking leader of the state Senate, says many of the issues Mississippi lawmakers will be tackling this year are rec...

Marshall Ramsey: Mother Nature Mississippi Today.

Hours before the 2025 session of the Mississippi Legislature kicked off last week, Gov. Tate Reeves went to social media to proclaim the No....

Marshall Ramsey: Fact Checkers Mississippi Today.