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Three members of a Mississippi family have something special to celebrate — plus, they have a calendar date that will forever be meaningful. A father and his two children graduated together on Thursday from a branch of Mississippi State University, each of them earning a master's degree in education.

By: Sid Salter As predicted months ago, Mississippi is now the epicenter of America’s divisive, bitter abortion rights debate. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Dec. 1, 2021, in the Mississippi case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – Mississippi’s last remaining abortion pro

Too many Mississippi politicians focus on the wrong kind of migration.

The Mississippi State Police Department investigated allegations that Gregory Lowery entered a university office after normal operating hours, took a credit card without permission, and made unauthorized charges.

By: Sid Salter The latest skirmish in the nation’s highly partisan, often logically erratic fight over the broad topic of immigration is being fought over the Biden Administration’s plan to rescind an obscure public health law written 78 years ago to stop the spread of communicable diseases like tu

Longtime outdoors journalist and former Clarion Ledger writer Bobby Cleveland died Thursday from injuries suffered in an automobile accident.

By Sid Salter In any given publication since 1939, The Journal of Mississippi History has been an invaluable record of the institutional memory of the state of Mississippi. But few editions of the scholarly journal have been more valuable to Mississippians than is the current Vol. 84, No. 1 and No.

By: Sid Salter One of the state’s more mainstream conservative business groups last week unveiled a unanimous resolution endorsing Medicaid expansion in Mississippi – the venerable Delta Council. The resolution, adopted by the group’s Health and Education Committee, was clear and unequivocal in cal

By: Sid Salter As the midterm elections approach, why isn’t their more interest in the approaching U.S. Social Security and Medicare policy abyss? In 2020, Social Security provided retirement, disability and survivor benefits to some 416,500 Mississippians with monthly benefits averaging $1,420 pe

By: Sid Salter Since 1992 and at earlier points in the state’s history, Mississippi voters have been able to bypass the Legislature and engage in what has been called “direct democracy” in proposing constitutional amendments and getting them decided at the ballot box rather than at the state Capito