The Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Governor’s Arts Awards. The 2024 recipients and awards are as follows: Earl Poole Ball Lifetime Achievement Cedric Burnside Excellence in Music Brent Funderburk Excellence in...
by Alex Rozier, Mississippi Today September 26, 2023 No state in the contiguous United States has had more rainfall than Mississippi over the last five years. But even the wettest parts of the country are seeing their crops dry up due to unrelenting drought this...
by Molly Minta, Mississippi Today September 22, 2023 Buoyed by a series of tweets from State Auditor Shad White belittling certain liberal arts degrees as “garbage,” “useless” and “indoctrination factories,” a recent report from his office calls for Mississippi to...
by Geoff Pender and Taylor Vance, Mississippi Today September 26, 2023 To hear Gov. Tate Reeves talk on the reelection trail, one would think that during COVID-19, he was a stalwart champion of individual and business freedom and that Mississippi never locked down or...
by Devna Bose, Mississippi Today September 25, 2023 Gov. Tate Reeves, after months of inaction, has unveiled a plan he says will turn Mississippi’s health care crisis around. However, even some health care experts were stumped by how the Governor’s proposed reforms...
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today September 24, 2023 In 2002, during the 83-day special session, the longest in state history, members of the Mississippi Medical Association were out in full force in favor of legislation to provide health care providers more...
