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The Mississippi Legislature will restrict the City of Jackson’s use of the 1% Sales Tax to water issues if House Bill 1168 becomes law.
Mississippi cities are adopting a system of using automated license plate readers to ticket road users without valid vehicle liability insurance. A lawsuit filed Sept. 1, 2022, disputes the legality of the practice.
JACKSON, Miss.—The O.B. Curtis Water Treatment facility is experiencing significant challenges due to the increased water flow from the Ross Barnett Reservoir, which is hampering
The undocumented immigrants living at the Westside Trailer Park in Canton, Miss., petitioned the Canton Municipal Utilities, which restored their street lights in July 2022 after several years of darkness. They have set their eyes on getting their roads fixed.
Juneteenth commemorates the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people were freed.
Voter restoration is one of many issues plaguing Mississippi, but a new collaboration between the Southern Poverty Law Center and Tougaloo College is looking to train the next up-and-coming generation of activists to effectively work toward voting rights with an advocacy institute.
At the Madison/Rankin County Circuit Courthouse in Canton on March 28, 2022, two judges sentenced three people to a collective 216 years for drug offenses.
Vice President Kamala Harris came to the 82.4% Black town of Greenville to talk about the Biden administration’s efforts to ensure that small business owners get resources they need to rebuild, especially in underserved communities like Greenville.
In Mississippi, a number of cities owe their very existence to railways, with towns growing up around outposts that originally began only to serve the trains and rail workers, leading to the rail lines attracting industry rather than the other way around.
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