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Below is an opinion column by Russ Latino:
Growing up in Claiborne County, Nancy Disharoon Loome attended a private school. Today, she and her Southern Poverty Law Center-funded advocacy organization, are the leading opponents of other Mississippi families having that same option.
By Russ Latino - Magnolia Tribune on
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Second-year students from the Pearl River Community College Dental Hygiene program recently spent a morning giving back to the local community at the Edward Street Fellowship Center in Hattiesburg.
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The clarification came as Magnolia Tribune sought a breakdown of the interest income between special funds and the state’s general fund.
The State Treasurer’s office on Tuesday clarified that Mississippi’s “record-breaking $1 billion in interest income in 2025,” as shared in a release Monday, was in fact a cumulative total over Treasurer David McRae’s tenure “up to 2025, not in 2025 alone.”
By Frank Corder - Magnolia Tribune on
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Mississippi Treasurer David McRae is the 55th Treasurer for the State of Mississippi. In this role, he helps manage the state’s cash flow, oversees College and Career Savings Mississippi, and has returned more than $150 million in unclaimed money to Mississippians. For more information, visit Treasury.MS.gov.
Nobody really likes tax season. Sure, it can be nice if you get a refund, but even getting to that point can be frustrating – collecting the W-2's and 1099s from employers, tracking down paperwork from your bank, finding your passwords for your tax prep software. It isn’t easy. That said, many are hopeful that all the work will pay off a little more this year than it did in year’s past.
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Southern Miss head basketball coach Jay Ladner will return to the school for his eighth season, the school confirmed to The Pine Belt News on Tuesday.
The decision follows a season shaped by injuries but highlighted by a late surge, as Southern Miss played its best basketball down the stretch.
Ladner will return for the 2026-27 season to complete the final year of his current contract.
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Dr. Teresa Poole of William Carey University, holding PREPS Partner Award, is congratulated by PREPS board members, from left, Dr. Alee Dixon, Dr. Carla Evers, and Dr. Sam Allison.
Dr. Teresa Poole received a special award Feb. 27 during this year’s PREPS Conference at William Carey University – the PREPS Partner Award. Poole is dean of the WCU School of Education.
PREPS stands for Program for Research and Evaluation for Public Schools. It is a statewide organization that supports Mississippi school districts with resources to enhance student success.
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The education team at the Hattiesburg Zoo has partnered with the Mississippi Forestry Association to present a Project Learning Tree training session for formal and informal teachers on March 28th from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
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Breaking news: The Southern Miss baseball team is in fact human.
The No. 12 Golden Eagles dropped their first series of the season on the road at Arkansas State, marking their first series loss since Marshall last year.
The week began with a walk-off home victory over Ole Miss, but with the two losses up in Jonesboro, Southern Miss ended up with its first 2-2 week of the season.
Below is my weekly grades of the team, and I might warn you they aren’t pretty.
Starting Pitching – B-
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The University of Southern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra will present “Bars of Red” on Thursday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mannoni Performing Arts Center Auditorium on the Hattiesburg campus.
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Siblings Lynda Balch (left), John David McElhaney, Jr. (center) and Jonee Mc Elhaney prepare to celebrate their family’s business being 100 years in the making.
McElhaney Plumbing has been a household name in the Hub City since 1926, and to celebrate, the McElhaney family and City of Hattiesburg hosted the community at Town Square Park on Saturday, March 14 with a live band, food trucks and community fellowship.
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Alena Crear, 5, looks around as state leaders speak during a press conference on affordable child care and tax relief for family necessities Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026, at the Capitol in Jackson. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
Advocates say state leaders must address Mississippi’s 11-month child care crisis but warn the $15 million would only alleviate a fraction of roughly 20,000 households on a waitlist.
The Senate voted Thursday to spend $15 million on child care vouchers to help alleviate the pressure on roughly 20,000 low-income Mississippi families waitlisted for subsidies since pandemic-era federal funds ran out in April.
By Sophia Paffenroth - Mississippi Today on
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Clarksdale Municipal School District students Leah Myles, Jamarick Davis, Khloe Reed and instructor Candace Barron pose for a photograph after their last teacher preparation class before winter break, Dec. 15, 2025. Their district offers a vocational teacher preparation course at the Carl Keen Career and Technical Center. Credit: Leonardo Bevilacqua/Mississippi Today
Clarksdale public schools are cultivating future teachers among their students.
CLARKSDALE — Clarksdale had the second highest teacher shortage in Mississippi last year — 40 posted vacancies in July.
For district administrators, that staffing challenge hits particularly hard each year in late summer when they try to fill vacancies before the new school year begins. The problem affects students, too, when they’re taught by substitute teachers for weeks at a time.
By Leonardo Bevilacqua - Mississippi Today on
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Below is a political opinion column by Bobby Harrison:
No state has expanded Medicaid since the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill was put into law last year
Another legislative session, another year will pass without Mississippi expanding Medicaid to provide health care coverage for the working poor.
By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today on
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Mississippi is on track to increase spending on prisons for the coming fiscal year, a spike attributed to its medical care contract and rising payments to private prisons, according to a top budget writer for corrections in the state Legislature.
By Michael Goldberg - Mississippi Today on
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On April 10, 1925, the little-known writer F. Scott Fitzgerald quietly published a novel that went largely ignored. Despite letters of praise from esteemed writers like T.S. Eliot, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton, "The Great Gatsby" was largely misunderstood and by the conclusion of the year had only sold around 20,000 copies. Even the stage adaptation and silent film, could not save the work from leaving the Twenties under the aegis of a "Jazz Age commercial failure."
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POPLARVILLE, Miss. — The No. 3 Pearl River baseball team continued its scorching start to MACCC play Saturday afternoon, blasting seven home runs and piling up 26 runs in a doubleheader sweep of Northeast, 17-1 and 9-6.
Through four conference games, the Wildcats have scored 56 runs.
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BOONEVILLE, Miss. — After a week without playing, it would have been easy for No. 1 Pearl River softball to show some rust in its MACCC opener — but the Wildcats did just the opposite.
Pearl River went on the road Saturday and swept No. 19 Northeast, taking game one 6-3 before finishing off the Tigers with an 11-5 win in the nightcap.
By Dylan Dunaway on
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Rep. Becky Currie, R-Brookhaven, speaks during the Prison Oversight Committee meeting at the Carroll Gartin Justice Building in Jackson on Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
Senate lawmakers failed to act on a bill that called for more oversight of prison deaths.
On Wednesday, the last day for action on bills originating from the other chamber, House Bill 1739 did not come up for a vote.
By Mina Corpuz - Mississippi Today on
