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Laurene Powell Jobs and Darren Walker are keynote speakers for Mississippi Today 10th anniversary event
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (712+ words) By Mississippi Today | Originally published by Mississippi Today Laurene Powell Jobs, founder and president of Emerson Collective, and Darren Walker, president and CEO of Anonymous Content and former president of the Ford Foundation, will headline Mississippi Today’s 10th Anniversary Celebration on…...
Congress must ensure Pell Grants for Mississippi students, college access advocate says
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (754+ words) By Jim McHale | Originally published by Mississippi Today Mississippi Today Ideas is a platform for thoughtful Mississippians to share their ideas about our state’s past, present and future. Opinions expressed in guest essays are the author’s own and do not…...
AG Lynn Fitch could have???virtually unlimited latitude??? to set how Mississippi???s $189 million Meta settlement can be spent
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (954+ words) By Michael Goldberg and Allen Siegler | Originally published by Mississippi Today As Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch prepares a plan for how Mississippi can spend $189 million of national Meta lawsuit funds, legal experts told Mississippi Today that the settlement raises…...
Mississippi???s last competitive US House races occurred in 2010. Will 2026 change the trend?
1+ week, 21+ hour ago (641+ words) By Bobby Harrison | Originally published by Mississippi Today For a brief two-year period from 2008 until 2010, Democrats, despite not having won a presidential election in Mississippi since 1976, held three of the state’s four U.S. House seats. But Mississippi’s 2026 U.S. House…...
Olive Branch Planning Commission to meet Sept. 8
1+ week, 1+ day ago (60+ words) DeSoto County News Your Source for Desoto County News The City of Olive Branch said the Planning Commission will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026, at the City Municipal Court Building, 6900 Highland Street. The city said the agenda is subject to change…...
Olive Branch zoning board to meet Sept. 10
1+ week, 2+ day ago (72+ words) desotocountynews.com The City of Olive Branch said its Board of Zoning Adjustment will hold a regularly scheduled meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026, at the City Municipal Court Building, 6900 Highland St. The city said the meetings are open to the public....
Trump appoints Adam Telle, longtime Thad Cochran adviser, to lead the Army
1+ week, 2+ day ago (269+ words) By Taylor Vance | Originally published by Mississippi Today President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that Adam Telle, who is currently helping oversee the Army Corps of Engineers, will serve as acting Army secretary. Telle was a former longtime staffer and…...
Redistricting hearing turns tense in US Rep. Bennie Thompson???s backyard
1+ week, 4+ day ago (791+ words) By Michael Goldberg | Originally published by Mississippi Today CLEVELAND – Most Mississippi residents who spoke on Tuesday at the first public hearing on redistricting in the Delta criticized what they saw as a Republican push for power at the expense of…...
Hezekiah Watkins gets birthday wishes at Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
1+ week, 5+ day ago (777+ words) Your Source for Desoto County News By Simeon Gates | Originally published by Mississippi Today At age 79, civil rights veteran Hezekiah Watkins would do it all over again. As a teenager, Watkins became the youngest of the Freedom Riders, an interracial…...
Besieged for sending racist text messages, Senatobia police chief is fired by city leadership
1+ week, 5+ day ago (629+ words) By Mukta Joshi and Joseph Cranney, Verite News | Originally published by Mississippi Today Leaders of the northern Mississippi city of Senatobia fired their embattled police chief late Tuesday, days after Mississippi Today, Verite News and The New York Times reported…...