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A Tea Party Chat: Excerpt
Central Mississippi Tea Party President Janis Lane questions giving women the right to vote. She spoke with JFP reporter R.L. Nave on June 14, 2012.
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Lee Announces Candidacy
Jonathan Lee announces his candidacy for Jackson mayor. (Audio is muffled near the end.)
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State Campaigns 2018
With two competitive U.S. Senate races on the ballot and four House races, Mississippi hasn’t …
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Mass Incarceration Rally
Citizens rallied against mass incarceration in Brandon, Miss., on July 29. Family and friends of …
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Neshoba County Fair
Mississippi candidates for statewide office pitched their case at the Neshoba County Fair on July …
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Election Night Watch Parties Nov. 5, 2019
Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves held an election watch party at the Westin Hotel in …
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Tate Reeves Gubernatorial Inauguration Gallery
Republican Tate Reeves is now the governor of Mississippi, presiding over a deeply red government …
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2020 State of the State Gallery
Newly elected Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves delivered his first State of State address on Monday, …
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Protest at the Governor's Mansion, June 6, 2020
The Black Lives Matter Mississippi Protest at the Governor's Mansion on June 6, 2020, included …
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Legislature Votes to Change State Flag
Pictures from the Mississippi State Capitol's Saturday deliberations over the state flag on June 27.
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Mississippi 2020 Election Lines
A gallery of the 2020 Election Lines that JFP staff experienced on the morning of …
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Mississippi 2020 Election Lines, Continued
Voters across the metro gather to cast their ballots for the Nov. 3, 2020, election.
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'Go, Mississippi': State Could Ditch Song with Racist Roots
Mississippi is on the verge of scuttling a state song with racist roots, two years after it retired a Confederate-themed state flag.
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Mississippi Joins States Limiting Outside Election Funding
Mississippi is the latest Republican-led state to ban election offices from accepting donations from private groups for voting operations—a movement fueled by conservatives' suspicion of donations by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2020.
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Mississippi Legislators Work to Approve State Spending Plans
Mississippi legislators on Monday were approving parts of a state budget for the year that begins July 1, and it is substantially larger than the budget for the current year.
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Teacher Raise, Tax Cut Top Issues in Mississippi Session
Mississippi legislators have finished their busiest session in years after enacting the largest teacher pay raise in a generation and setting the state's largest-ever income tax cut.
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Gov. Reeves Signs $524-Million Tax Cut As Education, Infrastructure Funding Woes Remain
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed an income-tax cut Tuesday afternoon that will eliminate $524 million from state revenues.
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Mississippi Gov Signs Bill Expanding Inmates' Work Release
Mississippi will expand a work release program for nonviolent inmates from one county to three counties.
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Judge Sentences Two Madison County Men to 150-Plus Years in Prison for Drug Offenses
Madison/Rankin County Circuit Court Judge Dewey Arthur sentenced 34-year-old Carlos Dominique Allen and 42-year-old Torrey Powell to 156 years, collectively, for drug offenses on March 28, 2022.
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Mississippi Creates New Office for Broadband Development
Mississippi is creating a statewide office to spend millions of federal dollars for broadband internet development — an effort that could boost lagging rural areas.
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Federal Judge: Mississippi Jail Must Make Several Changes
A federal judge has ordered Hinds County leaders to implement several changes at the Raymond Detention Center.
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Amid False 2020 Claims, GOP States Eye Voting System Upgrade
For years, Tennessee Democratic Senate Minority Leader Jeff Yarbro’s call to require the state’s voting infrastructure to include a paper record of each ballot cast has been batted down in the Republican-dominated Legislature.