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It’s hard for queer people to see where they fit into history. Mississippi schools must work to integrate curriculum and reform sex education.

3 min read High school students across the U.S., and especially the South, graduate and enter a world on their own without the proper tools to enter adulthood, sexual education being one of them. As students step foot on the University of Mississippi campus, most who received any form of sex education have not done so without some politics involved.  Parents and politicians alike push to limit what school-age children are exposed to, yet these limitations can affect students as...

The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Tishomingo County Airport (Belmont) (“Airport”) entered into a May 18th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of the Mississippi Code related to discharges of waste into waters of the state. See Order No. 7122 21. The alleged violation involved expiration of a general stormwater permit. The AO states that MCEQ on December 12, 2019, conducted a Compliance Evaluation Inspection (“CEI”) at the Airport wh...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The race to enact Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) legislation moves forward on a state-by-state basis while the NCAA continues to hold its promised formal NIL legislation in abeyance while awaiting one of several federal legislative proposals to move forward. While the number of states that have either introduced legislation or passed formal NIL laws grows at a rapid pace, Georgia has now joined Florida, Alabama, New Mexico and Mississ...

Friday, May 7, 2021 The race to enact Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) legislation moves forward on a state-by-state basis while the NCAA continues to hold its promised formal NIL legislation in abeyance while awaiting one of several federal legislative proposals to move forward. While the number of states that have either introduced legislation or passed formal NIL laws grows at a rapid pace, Georgia has now joined Florida, Alabama, New Mexico and Mississippi by enacting a name, image ...

Hattiesburg resident challenges council candidate’s qualifications to run The municipal primary is set for April 6. (Source: WDAM) By Luke Smith | March 2, 2021 at 6:39 PM CST - Updated March 2 at 8:32 PM HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - A Democratic candidate’s qualifications to run for Hattiesburg City Council in the April primary are being challenged by a resident of the ward he seeks to represent. Joseph Lanford filed the petition in Forrest County Circuit Court on Friday chall...

TUPELO • Lee County Sheriff Jim Johnson says his department will not enforce any executive orders intended to limit the escalating spread of COVID-19 throughout the state even as the Tupelo Police Department makes plans to ramp up enforcement of existing safety measures. Johnson told the Daily Journal in a telephone interview that he has ordered Lee County sheriff’s deputies not to issue citations or arrest people for failing to follow executive orders issued by state or local officia...