Statewide News
IHL system put on federal monitoring after blowing deadline to submit annual audit
by Molly Minta, Mississippi Today September 25, 2023 The U.S. Department of Education has placed Mississippi’s public university system under a form of oversight that restricts the flow of federal...
Foreign Purchase of Farmland Study Committee Holds Second Meeting
The Study Committee on Foreign Purchase of Farmland in Mississippi held its second meeting at the State Capitol on September 27. The Mississippi Legislature created this Study Committee through...
The Mississippi Arts Commission Announces 2024 Governor’s Arts Awards Recipients
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...
‘Hot, hot, hot’: Historic heat and drought taking toll on state’s agriculture
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...
Auditor’s proposal to defund some college majors catches fire online, but are lawmakers interested?
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...
Fact check: Did Gov. Reeves keep Mississippi ‘open for business’ during pandemic?
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...