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Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today’s senior capitol reporter, covers politics, government and the Mississippi State Legislature. He also writes a weekly news analysis which is co-published in newspapers statewide. A native of Laurel, Bobby joined our team June 2018 after working for the North Mississippi Daily Journal in Tupelo since 1984. He is president of the Mississippi Capitol Press Corps Association and works with the Mississippi State University Stennis Institute to organize press luncheons. Bobby has a bachelor's in American Studies from the University of Southern Mississippi and has received multiple awards from the Mississippi Press Association, including the Bill Minor Best Investigative/In-depth Reporting and Best Commentary Column.

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Most infrastructure money will take months, in some cases years, to aid counties, towns

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Ole Miss can contextualize Confederate monuments, court finds

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Middleton resigns from Mississippi House after more than 20 years

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Senate refuses Hood’s request for frontage road project information

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Senate opts to provide bulk of $700M BP money to Coast, setting up a showdown in the House

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Inside Gov. Phil Bryant’s crusade to save his lottery proposal

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Lottery not dead but no longer a sure bet after stunning defeat in House

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Transportation bill heads to governor; see what’s in it for your county

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Pot of money for education being cut, lottery won’t make up difference

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House approves altered lottery bill, Senate OKs online sales tax; everybody goes home until Monday

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Lottery debate: Bryant expects House to open records, meetings to public

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House OKs road funding plan, but some fear poor areas will get shortchanged

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Divvying up BP oil spill settlement funds could be tacked on to special session

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Lakeland Drive widening project part of 2014 legislative ‘wrangling,’ special session

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$200 million transportation plan emerges, but work remains on the details

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