Officials joined Central Transportation Commissioner Willie Simmons in Jackson today to announce a partnership between the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT), Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), the Hinds County Board of Supervisors and Hinds...
by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today September 7, 2023 News of the death of baseball’s Doug Shanks earlier this week brought back several vivid memories, including the one that follows. This was a bluebird Delta day, in February in 2010. The previous day’s rainstorm...
by Molly Minta, Mississippi Today September 6, 2023 It was the fourth day of classes at Delta State University last fall when the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Ellen Green, asked the music department to not hate her forever. The 12 faculty members had just...
by Mina Corpuz, Mississippi Today September 6, 2023 Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit challenging House Bill 1020 are looking for a workaround to prevent the appointment of judges to the Hinds County Circuit Court and a separate court system within the county. Under the...
by Taylor Vance, Mississippi Today September 6, 2023 Brandon Presley, the state’s Democratic nominee for governor, stood in front of the gates of the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion last week to lob two major accusations at his Republican opponent, Gov. Tate Reeves,...
Today, Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gipson named Theresa Love as executive director of the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum. In this position, Love, a 26-year staff member of the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and...
