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Higher ed reporter Molly Minta moves to Mississippi Today’s new Jackson team

Mississippi Today is excited to announce that Molly Minta, who has been covering higher education for the newsroom since 2021, has moved full-time to the newly launched Jackson team. In her new role, Minta’s reporting will take an expansive view of topics like public safety, such as community-level examinations of housing and code enforcement, public…

Federal appeals court affirms Mississippi can’t count late mail-in absentee ballots for federal elections

The conservative 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that it would not change its prior decree that Mississippi cannot count mail-in absentee ballots that arrive after Election Day.   The order means that Mississippi’s law allowing election workers to process mail-in ballots for up to five business days after the election will be suspended…



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