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...
By: Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune The Mississippi State Board of Election Commissioners has submitted a new legislative redistricting plan for the DeSoto County area, complying with an order from a three-judge panel that said the Senate map adopted this...
By: Laura Lee Leathers, Magnolia Tribune True confession. Country music is not my genre. However, if you start singing “Jackson” (1968) by Johnny Cash and June Carter, I could tell you they made it famous. And whenever my family traveled down our long...
By: Magnolia Mornings, Magnolia Tribune Second District Congressman Bennie Thompson (D) announced Wednesday (April 23) that Greenwood Leflore Hospital has been selected to participate in the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program, a federal...
By: Susan Marquez, Magnolia Tribune Ask folks around the McComb area where to get the best down-home cooking and they’ll surely tell you to find your way to The Dinner Bell. The iconic round table restaurant started over 80 years ago, was intended to be...
By: Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune State Representative Orlando Paden won the Democratic Primary runoff on Tuesday in the race to be the next Mayor of Clarksdale. Incumbent Mayor Chuck Espy did not seek re-election to a third term. Paden finished second...
