Statewide News
USE COMMON SENSE WHEN SHOOTING FIREWORKS
Fireworks were involved with over 10,000 injuries treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments during 2022, according to a report from the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Children are...
Who Investigates the Sheriff? In Mississippi, Often No One.
by Ilyssa Daly, Jerry Mitchell and Rachel Axon, Mississippi Today December 28, 2023 As Marquise Tillman led deputies on a high-speed chase through rural Mississippi in March 2019, Sheriff Todd Kemp...
Incoming Mississippi superintendent of education discusses plans for the future
The incoming Mississippi superintendent of education, Lance Evans, recently shared his vision and objectives for his tenure, which officially begins in July 2024. Speaking in an online press...
The Success Sequence is not so simple
By Douglas Carswell We’ve all heard of the ‘success sequence’, right? This is the idea that if someone manages to achieve three things - finish high school, get a full-time job and get married...
Average Mississippi school internet speeds 20 times slower than neighboring states, watchdog says
by Julia James, Mississippi Today December 26, 2023 Mississippi school districts’ average internet bandwidth was 20 times lower than neighboring states in the 2021-22 school year, according to a...
Governor wants more tax cuts even as two past cuts are being phased in
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today December 26, 2023 Two past tax cuts – both labeled the largest in state history when they were passed – are being phased in even as Gov. Tate Reeves pushes a...