2015/04/15 – Whether this past session of the Mississippi Legislature was successful depends largely on which party a lawmaker belonged to. For Democrats in a body that is majority Republican in both houses—in a state with only one Democrat in statewide …..
2015/4/2 – Mississippi NAACP Branch President Derrick Johnson commended a federal grand jury’s indictment of a University of Mississippi student for defiling a historical Civil Rights Movement landmark. “The people need to see that the wheels of justice do still turn, …..
2015/4/1-Members of the group Mississippi Alliance for Fairness at Nissan (MAFFAN) say that Nissan North American should have paid for new schools instead of the citizens of Canton. Canton voters recently passed a $33 million dollar school bond issue that …..
2015/03/25 – An Oxford school patron is asking a Hinds County judge to remove from the November ballot an alternative proposed by the Legislature to a citizen-sponsored education funding initiative. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports the lawsuit was filed Tuesday in …..
2015/03/23 – It’s official: Mississippi high school seniors no longer must pass all four subject-area tests to graduate. State Board of Education members voted Friday on the change, which takes effect immediately. According to the new policy, this year’s seniors …..
