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Thomas Barnes Amtrak expansion—Meridian to Dallas and restoration of the Sunset Limited to Florida!

Georgia Casey Purvis The Medicaid expansion.

Eric Steven Achee Stop special interest deals and create jobs.

Jeffery Taylor Although I know it won’t happen, I’ll say term limits!

Susan Payne Womack Full funding of public education would be nice.

Andriana Crudup Can they get rid of our state flag?

Eric Steven Achee We have term limits. It’s called voting.

Ingrid Cruz STATE: Repeal E-Verify, expand Medicaid and keep their rosaries off our ovaries. FEDERAL: Halt deportations, green jobs, assistance for people with student loans and job creation/unemployment benefits extension bills. Oh, and convicting a few people from Wall Street would be nice.

Alice Hollis Watkins Get rid of Common Core in the state.

Mississippi native Donna Ladd and partner Todd Stauffer founded the Jackson Free Press in 2002 in the capital city. The heavily awarded local newspaper did many investigations heralded across the state and nation and served as a paper of record due to its diversity, inclusion, in-depth reporting and deep connection to readers and dedication to narrative change in and about Mississippi. In 2022, the nonprofit Mississippi Free Press, founded by Ladd and JFP Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin in 2020, purchased the journalism assets and archives of the Jackson Free Press. A Google grant through AAN Publishers enabled Newspack's integration of the JFP archives into the Mississippi Free Press website to become part of a more searchable archive of recent Mississippi history and essential journalism.