2016/04/14 – County officials across Mississippi are warning of job losses and deep deficits as local jails are being deprived of the state inmates needed to keep them afloat. The culprit, say local officials, is state government and private prisons, …..
2016/04/08 – The city of Jackson is getting old and like a senior citizen with a lifetime of heavy smoking and alcohol abuse, it’s facing expensive age-related illnesses. The most obvious, outside of the numerous car-eating-size potholes found in some areas, …..
2016/04/08 – Last month, State Rep. Karl Oliver offered a galling example of how protected Mississippi legislators are and how broken state-level democracy remains to this day. Gulfport resident Becky Guidry sent emails to House members in March urging them to …..
2016/04/08 – Legislators are using self-inflicted revenue shortfalls to push for major consolidation of state schools, despite consolidation’s limited national success. House Education Committee members voted to consolidate the municipal district of Winona into its neighboring Carroll County and Montgomery County …..
2016/04/08 – Carley Dear has a four-year-old son, Tailon, who is lucky enough to attend North Jackson’s Richard Brandon Head Start Center every weekday morning. Soon after the sun peeps over the horizon, his mom drops him off and at the …..
