Fact check: Gov. Tate Reeves, who says he kept businesses open during the COVID-19, actually issued many orders restricting or directing what Mississippians and businesses could do over about a year of the pandemic.
Posted inSports
State-USM men’s basketball to play benefit game for Delta victims
Mississippi State and Southern Miss men’s basketball teams will play an exhibition game this fall, and tornado victims in the Mississippi Delta will benefit.
Posted inEducation
IHL system put on federal monitoring after blowing deadline to submit annual audit
For the next five years, when Mississippi universities seek to cover tuition with federal financial aid dollars — everything from Pell Grants to student loans — they will be required to first provide certain documentation.
Posted inEducation
Mississippi board approves state’s first charter high school
Clarksdale Collegiate Prep has been approved to open in the fall of 2025. It will be Mississippi’s first charter high school.
Posted inHealth
Experts say Gov. Tate Reeves’ plan will help hospitals, but not uninsured Mississippians
The plan is essentially a complex scheme to increase extra payments hospitals get for treating patients on Medicaid — and notably doesn’t include Medicaid expansion.
Posted inOn This Day
On this day in 1961
On this day in 1961, Herbert Lee became the first local person killed fighting for voting rights with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Posted inThe Other Side Podcast
Podcast: Did vote to change state flag lose veteran lawmaker his election?
Mississippi Today’s Bobby Harrison and Taylor Vance talked with outgoing state Rep. Nick Bain, a Republican from Corinth, on his vote to change the state flag and how he believes it played major role in his election loss last month.
Posted inHealth
Mississippi pharmacies fall short in providing opioid-reversal drug, study shows
More than 40% of Mississippi pharmacies do not carry naloxone, a University of Mississippi study found.
Posted inMississippi Stories
Mississippi Stories: Stacey Trenteseaux
On this episode of Mississippi Stories, editor-at-large Marshall Ramsey visits with Stacey Trenteseaux, Executive Director of Opera Mississippi and a soprano opera singer.
Posted inCartoon
Marshall Ramsey: Tate Plane
Check out this week’s Marshall’s Mississippi newsletter and see a cartoon I drew about this very topic — during the Fordice/Musgrove years! Nothing is new under the sun.
Posted inOn This Day
On this day in 1957
On this day in 1957, nine Black students were blocked from entering Arkansas’ Central High school on the orders of Gov. Orval Faubus.
Posted inAnalysis
Mississippi Medical Association has not always been out front on state’s health care issues
The Mississippi Medical Association, which recently endorsed Gov. Tate Reeves, has argued for something Reeves has refused: Medicaid expansion.
Posted inOn This Day
On this day in 1955
On this day in 1955, an all-white, all-male jury in the Mississippi Delta acquitted J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant of murdering Emmett Till.