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Special elections set in two state House districts to fill vacancies created by deaths
When Mississippi holds special elections to fill two seats in the state House of Representatives, on Nov.
 • Derrion Arrington
Ty Pinkins, Independent in U.S. Senate race, answers charge that he’s a spoiler — or worse
Ty Pinkins knows what movers-and-shakers in the state’s two political parties say about a Black independent running for the U.S.
 • Derrion Arrington
Race is on for candidates to fill judicial slot opened by governor’s supreme court appointment
Candidates have until tomorrow to file with the State Board of Election Commissioners to qualify for a DeSoto County judgeship that Gov.
 • Derrion Arrington
Colom’s centrist gambit: Running as moderate at time when national party is moving left—same bet Espy made and lost
Scott Colom, the Democrat challenging U.S.
 • Derrion Arrington
How we got here: A tale of two taxes
Sales taxes that undergird state budget vs. plans to eliminate corresponding income tax
 • Derrion Arrington
IHL takes no action on controversial new funding formula
Mississippi’s funding formula for colleges and universities will remain in place for now after the Board of Trustees of the Institutions of Higher…
 • The Mississippi Independent
Analysis: Judge blocks white voters' use of Callais ruling to challenge Black judicial district, charting new electoral territory
When a group of white DeSoto County residents asked a federal court to block a new judicial subdistrict drawn to give Black voters a better chance to…
 • Derrion Arrington
New cybersecurity committee follows years of attacks without preventive requirements
At a time when municipal water systems in seven states have suffered cyberattacks, the need to guard against malicious hacking has taken on greater…
 • Derrion Arrington
At first redistricting hearing, citizens’ message to state officials: Leave electoral maps alone
TUPELO, Miss.—One after another, the majority of people who stood at the microphone at a hearing here on Tuesday told the state’s redistricting…
 • Derrion Arrington
Mississippi joins federal fraud crackdown built on data experts say is often erroneous
Given persistent, bogus claims of widespread voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election and the U.S.
 • Derrion Arrington
Opinion: America, not Mississippi
This commentary is in response to an Aug.
 • Talamieka Brice
Mississippi’s only immigrant detention center received its worst-ever inspection report—and still passed
Previously unreported federal inspection found serious failures in how facility reviewed uses of force, raising new questions about oversight of…
 • Christopher Harress
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