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Marshall Ramsey: Decimal Point Mississippi Today.

Rep. Dana McLean, R-Columbus, joins Mississippi Today’s Bobby Harrison and Sophia Paffenroth to explain the importance of passing her legisl...

In his second term as a member of the Mississippi House, Bryant Clark presided over the chamber — a rare accomplishment for a sophomore in a...

Marshall Ramsey: Collision Mississippi Today.

The week of March 17 in the Mississippi Legislature dawned with a continuing tax standoff between the state House and Senate as they entered...

by Samuel Hughes with contributions from Aidan Tarrant and Pragesh AdhikariPOPLARVILLE – From cinderblock, single-story duplexes and qua...

As far as Mary Alex Thigpen knew, the truckloads of mulch she’d just had delivered would sit at Belhaven’s Laurel Street Park until she coul...

Jackson reporter Molly MintaMississippi Today is excited to announce that Molly Minta, who has been covering higher education for the new...

Editor’s note: This essay is part of Mississippi Today Ideas, a platform for thoughtful Mississippians to share fact-based ideas about our s...

Javion Shed is nervous about his first time as a moderator. The Murrah High School senior looks the part, dressed in a blue suit with a Murr...

It was like seeing the writing on the wall and waiting for the worse to happen. Family members and friends said they saw signs of physic...

Marshall Ramsey: The Typo Mississippi Today.

Today, after months of campaigning on “giving education back to the states,” President Donald Trump signed an executive order that aims to t...

Mississippi Senate leaders have said a House plan to eliminate the state income tax over about a decade was foolhardy, and instead proposed...

This story will be updated.In a stunning move, the House on Thursday morning voted 92-27 to agree with the Senate’s latest plan to elimi...

Marshall Ramsey: Demote the Vote Mississippi Today.

March 20, 1957Spike Lee at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival Credit: WikipediaAward-winning filmmaker Spike Lee was born in Atlanta. ...

This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system...

Marshall Ramsey: Tugboat Mississippi Today.

Bianca Jones is fired up about voting.She attended a mayoral candidate forum hosted by League of Women Voters at Millsaps College Tuesda...

We cover a busy Mississippi scene in both hoops and hardball with a little Jaxson Dart to the Saints projection thrown in for good measure....

Tampa Bay Rays Jake Mangum is greeted in the dugout after scoring a run in the third inning of a spring training baseball game against the P...

Marshall Ramsey: The Third Leg Mississippi Today.