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The late Chicago newspaperman Mike Royko said - I paraphrase - that every columnist has five good ideas. Mississippi muckraker Bill Minor died last month at age 94. Those alliterative words sound good: Mississippi muckraker.
Mississippi would spend less on public schools, have no new funds for transportation and face likely tuition hikes at state colleges and universities under a spending plan approved Saturday by lawmakers that cuts next year's budget by more than 4 percent compared to what was originally planned. The spending plan for the budget year that begins July 1, described as "mighty ugly" by House Speaker Pro Tem Greg Snowden, a Meridian Republican, could also mean program cuts and layoffs among state agencies.
Fisher served as executive director of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics from 2005-2014, where he oversaw the state's largest methamphetamine bust and provided staff for Mississippi's first comprehensive intelligence center. Most recently, he served as state director for the Mississippi Gulf Coast High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area.
In the state's bicentennial year, and a few months after two flag initiatives failed to receive enough signatures to make a statewide ballot, lawmakers have filed 22 bills offering to change, keep or let voters decide on the current state flag. Seven bills, all drafted by white Republicans, would support the current state flag and impose statutory punishments for governmental entities refusing to fly it.
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Mississippi authorities arrested a man Wednesday in the burning of an African-American church that was also spray-painted with the words, "Vote Trump." Andrew McClinton of Leland, Mississippi, was charged with first degree arson of a place of worship, said Warren Strain , spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety .
A Mississippi man sentenced to death for the murder of a community college student won consent from the state's highest court Thursday to challenge a lethal injection drug that's been blamed for botched executions and other problems around the country. The Mississippi Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision , said Charles Ray Crawford can use a federal civil rights law to pursue a lawsuit in state court over the use of the sedative midazolam in executions.
The best compliment you can pay to David Crews' "The Mississippi Book of Quotations," is the urge to wonder aloud, "Why didn't somebody think of this before?" After all, Mississippi has produced some of the finest writers in the English language as well as some of the world's greatest singer/songwriters. The paradox has long been noted: Mississippi, the least literate of states, has produced a disproportionate amount of great story-tellers.
Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States. Both parties are talking about what a Trump presidency could mean for the Magnolia State.
Somebody set the fire that heavily damaged an African-American church that was also spray-painted with the phrase "Vote Trump," and an $11,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the conviction of whoever did it, a Mississippi fire chief said Wednesday. The FBI has opened a civil rights investigation of the Tuesday night fire at the 200-member Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, and Greenville Mayor Errick Simmons called the fire and graffiti a hate crime.
A Tokyo metropolitan government panel reviewing costly Olympic venues has propose... . Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, second right, speaks during an expert panel at the Tokyo Metropolitan government office in Tokyo, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016.
Transit workers in Philadelphia are hitting the picket lines Tuesday and commuters are scrambling to make alternate plans after the city's main transit agency and a union representing about 4,700 workers failed... Commuters scrambled Tuesday to find alternate ways to travel as transit workers in Philadelphia hit the picket lines after the city's main transit agency and a union representing about 4,700 workers failed to reach a... An explosion has shut down a pipeline that supplies gasoline to millions of people for the second time in less than two months, raising the specter of gas shortages and price increases.
Francis traveled to secular Sweden on Monday to mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation,... . Pope Francis greets faithful upon his arrival at the Malmo stadium, Sweden, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016.
Despite talk of fraud and rigged elections on the national level, Mississippi officials say voters should have confidence in the integrity of state elections. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has repeatedly raised the specter that if he loses the Nov. 8 election against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton it will be because of voter fraud or a rigged election.
In a Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016 photo, Stephanie Duneman and her daughter Isabella Duneman, 9, tie up balloons they brought to celebrate the birthday of Victoria Martens in Mariposa Basin Park, in Albuquerque. Ten-y... .
Donald Trump has assailed rival Hillary Clinton as "a bigot", as he appeared in Mississippi with British Brexit champion Nigel Farage, who declared that if he were a US citizen, he "wouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton if you paid me." Farage on Wednesday night urged Trump's supporters in Jackson to get out and vote "against the establishment," and spoke of Britain's decision to leave the European Union as a positive example.
From Press Reports Former first lady Laura Bush was wise to say, "The most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card." Our public libraries offer our communities more than shelves of books.