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CoffeeTime: “Is Being Right – Every Time – Worth It?”

CoffeeTime: “Is Being Right – Every Time – Worth It?”

by Mississippi Monitor | May 1, 2025 | CoffeeTime

Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com You can be absolutely right, have all your logical little ducks lined up perfectly in a row, with all your detailed facts ready at your fingertips to zap your opponent to smithereens… and be dead right. Because insisting on...
Upcoming Voter Registration Dates for the 2025 Municipal General Election

Upcoming Voter Registration Dates for the 2025 Municipal General Election

by Mississippi Monitor | Apr 30, 2025 | Statewide

Municipal Clerk’s Offices will be open from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 3, 2025, for in-person voter registration for the Municipal General Election on June 3, 2025. To be eligible to vote in the June 3 General Election, you must register...
New ‘Super Chikan’ documentary takes viewers into the life of a modern Delta bluesman

New ‘Super Chikan’ documentary takes viewers into the life of a modern Delta bluesman

by Mississippi Monitor | Apr 30, 2025 | Delta

By: Jim Beaugez, Magnolia Tribune     When Canadian musician and filmmaker Mark Rankin brought 74-year-old Clarksdale bluesman James “Super Chikan” Johnson to Vancouver, Canada, to play a few shows with his band in 2018, he expected great music. What he...
Taylor sworn in as new Senator for District 18

Taylor sworn in as new Senator for District 18

by Mississippi Monitor | Apr 30, 2025 | Pines

By: Daniel Tyson, Magnolia Tribune     Lane Taylor was sworn in on Tuesday as the newest State Senator representing Leake, Winston, and Neshoba counties, promising to be “of the people, for the people” of Senate District 18. Taylor won the seat in the...
Mississippi companies invited to participate in upcoming Southeastern U.S. – Canadian Provinces Alliance Business Forum in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Mississippi companies invited to participate in upcoming Southeastern U.S. – Canadian Provinces Alliance Business Forum in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

by Mississippi Monitor | Apr 30, 2025 | Statewide

Mississippi companies interested in exporting goods and services to Canada are invited to participate in the 17th annual Southeastern United States-Canadian Provinces Alliance Business Forum. The event will be held June 8-10 at the Saint John Trade and Convention...
Kara’s Sights and Bites: My Crockpot addiction is getting out of hand

Kara’s Sights and Bites: My Crockpot addiction is getting out of hand

by Mississippi Monitor | Apr 30, 2025 | Kara's Bites & Sights

By Kara Kimbrough     Just when I thought I had more than enough Crockpots, I was drawn back in. I’m blaming it on an ad proclaiming the GreenPot, a fancy name for a multi-use Crockpot, could perform 8 miraculous tasks: slow cook, sauté, grill, stir...
UMMC INVITES ASPIRING PHYSICIANS TO PRE-MED DAY

UMMC INVITES ASPIRING PHYSICIANS TO PRE-MED DAY

by Mississippi Monitor | Apr 30, 2025 | Capital/River

By: Gary Pettus, UMMC Communications The University of Mississippi Medical Center is inviting college students who are considering a career in medicine to participate in the UMMC School of Medicine Pre-Med Day, beginning at 8:15 a.m. Friday, May 16. Breakfast will be...
Mississippi’s U-Pick Farms: A trend that’s growing

Mississippi’s U-Pick Farms: A trend that’s growing

by Mississippi Monitor | Apr 29, 2025 | Statewide

By: Meredith Biesinger, Magnolia Tribune     The concept of U-pick flower farms in Mississippi is on the rise as people desire to grow their own flowers or gardens for various reasons, including outdoor aesthetics, cost, knowledge, and even business...
Zandra McDonald delivers message of hope at 85th commemoration of the Rhythm Night Club fire

Zandra McDonald delivers message of hope at 85th commemoration of the Rhythm Night Club fire

by Mississippi Monitor | Apr 29, 2025 | Capital/River

  Zandra McDonald delivered a message of hope and inspiration at the 85th commemoration of the 1940 Rhythm Night Club fire held Saturday, April 26, at the Rhythm Night Club (on site) Memorial Museum. “The Rhythm Night Club fire took so much from this community,...
ILLEGAL ALIEN SENTENCED FOR RAPING WOMAN AT LOCAL RESTAURANT

ILLEGAL ALIEN SENTENCED FOR RAPING WOMAN AT LOCAL RESTAURANT

by Mississippi Monitor | Apr 29, 2025 | Capital/River

  The Madison and Rankin Counties’ District Attorney Office announced today that Jose “Rigo” Rigoberto Mejia-Cubias pled guilty to one count of sexual battery in Madison County Circuit Court. Three months after the commission of the crime, he was sentenced on...
All aboard: Amtrak announces start of ‘Mardi Gras Service’ running between New Orleans and Mobile

All aboard: Amtrak announces start of ‘Mardi Gras Service’ running between New Orleans and Mobile

by Mississippi Monitor | Apr 29, 2025 | Coastal

By: Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune     Amtrak announced Thursday that agreements have been reached for the new twice-daily Amtrak intercity train service along the Mississippi Gulf Coast between New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile, Alabama. Starting this...
Vapes, Big Tobacco and a new Mississippi registry law

Vapes, Big Tobacco and a new Mississippi registry law

by Mississippi Monitor | Apr 28, 2025 | Statewide

By: Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune     Over 30 years ago, Mississippi became the first state to sue Big Tobacco. The result brought over $3 billion to the state over 25 years, in a deal cut prior to the $368 billion national tobacco settlement in 1998 which...
UMMC CEREMONY CELEBRATES ANATOMICAL DONORS

UMMC CEREMONY CELEBRATES ANATOMICAL DONORS

by Mississippi Monitor | Apr 28, 2025 | Capital/River

By: Gary Pettus, UMMC Communications Photos By: Jay Ferchaud/UMMC Communications     Willie Frances Greer, who believed in the fortifying power of apple cider vinegar, downed a tablespoon every day. “I told her she was going to outlive us all, her body was...
Second Medicaid Tech Bill vetoed by Governor

Second Medicaid Tech Bill vetoed by Governor

by Mississippi Monitor | Apr 28, 2025 | Statewide

By: Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune     Governor Tate Reeves (R) has vetoed a Medicaid Technical Amendment bill that he says would result in expansion of the program, a change he adamently opposes. Prior to sine die, Governor Reeves vetoed SB 2687, citing...
Mississippi Legends: Oseola McCarty, an unlikely philanthropist

Mississippi Legends: Oseola McCarty, an unlikely philanthropist

by Mississippi Monitor | Apr 28, 2025 | Coastal

By: Susan Marquez, Magnolia Tribune     Oseola McCarty did not live a remarkable life. Born in Shubuta, Mississippi, on March 7, 1908, she moved to Hattiesburg as a child and lived with an aunt who had no children of her own. Oseola’s mother taught her to...
Maybe We’re Not Losing the Culture — Maybe We’re Starting to Win It Back

Maybe We’re Not Losing the Culture — Maybe We’re Starting to Win It Back

by Mississippi Monitor | Apr 28, 2025 | Statewide

Lesley A. Davis is a long-time advocate for women and children, an attorney, President and CEO of Mississippi Advocacy Group, Mississippi’s Committeewoman to the RNC, and Vice Chair of the Mississippi Republican Party. For a long time, it felt like the left...
Local Veteran Nonprofit 5th Squad Announces Tickets Available for upcoming Veteran’s Night Screening – Brothers After War

Local Veteran Nonprofit 5th Squad Announces Tickets Available for upcoming Veteran’s Night Screening – Brothers After War

by Mississippi Monitor | Apr 27, 2025 | Capital/River

  5th Squad is proud to announce a special screening of Brothers After War, a powerful documentary produced by Gary Sinise and captured by Merritt Productions. The exclusive screening event will take place on April 29 at 7:00 PM at the Malco Grandview in Madison,...
Freedom celebration for Prince Ibrahima and Isabella set for May 10 at Historic Jefferson College

Freedom celebration for Prince Ibrahima and Isabella set for May 10 at Historic Jefferson College

by Mississippi Monitor | Apr 26, 2025 | Capital/River

A special event celebrating the 197th Freedom Anniversary of Prince Abdul Rahman Ibrahima and his wife, Isabella, will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 10, at Historic Jefferson College at 16 Old North St. It is free to the public. Titled, “Freedom: Retold,” the...
MDE announces 2025 Mississippi Administrator of the Year, Teacher of the Year

MDE announces 2025 Mississippi Administrator of the Year, Teacher of the Year

by Mississippi Monitor | Apr 26, 2025 | Statewide

  Recently, the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) announced the 2025 Mississippi Administrator of the Year is Dr. Marsha Peoples, principal at East Flora Elementary School in the Madison County School District, and the 2025 Mississippi Teacher of the Year...
Jackson council opposes JXN Water rate increase, tables pay raise proposal

Jackson council opposes JXN Water rate increase, tables pay raise proposal

by Mississippi Monitor | Apr 25, 2025 | Capital/River

By: Daniel Tyson, Magnolia Tribune     Jackson City Council members learned this week that their protest of a $9 a month water rate increase sought by JXN Water was merely symbolic. Whether Jacksonians pay more for water is up to the “full power and...
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