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Editor’s Note | Animal Companionship Alleviated My Cabin Fever
Three months ago, I spent my work days in an empty home, the podcasts emanating from my phone my primary source of auditory stimulation. I
Nate Schumann
December 1, 2023
Three months ago, I spent my work days in an empty home, the podcasts emanating from my phone my primary source of auditory stimulation. I
The Meridian Public School District is no longer under federal supervision because it has taken sufficient steps to limit the effects of segregation, U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate found as he granted the district unitary status during a Sept. 12 hearing in Jackson, Miss.
“Fun fact: I got married on April 15, 2023. I also got married on June 24, 2023. Yes, I married the same person twice,” Nate Schumann writes. “No, we did not split during that 10-week period. We actually chose to have two ceremonies!”
Liz Cain, a breast-cancer survivor, often hosts community fundraisers outside her Dalewood, Miss., gift shop and boutique, gg’s.
The Meridian Jazz and Blues marker honors blues and jazz performers that have played pivotal roles in musical history, locally and nationally, laying a foundation for future music genres. But Karen Hinton writes that many Mississippi blues women, especially Black women, are left out of the conversation and off of these historic markers, and most are not mentioned at all compared to men artists.
Nick Wallace has earned many accolades throughout his career, with the Small Business Association recently naming the Jacksonian chef the title of 2023 Mississippi Small Business Person of the Year.
Mississippians who collect or transmit a mailed absentee ballot on behalf of someone else could be charged with a misdemeanor offense and face up to one year in a county jail or a fine of up to $3,000 after Gov. Tate Reeves signed Senate Bill 2358 into law on Wednesday.
The Mississippi Parole Board can deny parole to people in prison if its members consider a judge’s sentence too low, Meridian-native Julia Monteele Norman told the Mississippi Senate Corrections Committee during her confirmation hearing on Feb. 13.
Mississippi Free Press’ attorney Rob McDuff said in a May 2022 statement that the Mississippi Open Meetings Act requires that other meetings of legislators, like the Republican Caucus, be open to the public when they constitute a quorum and are discussing public business.”
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