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Northsider Pete Perry is headed to the United States Supreme Court. That’s a big deal.
Pete Perry is one of two individual plaintiffs named in a legal issue involving how election rules are set. The lawsuit pits the Republican Party of Mississippi against the State of Mississippi. The issue is whether mail in ballots have to be received by the constitutionally mandated election date or whether they can be postmarked by that date and physically arrive days later.
Or to put more exactly, quoting the petition for writ of certiorari:
Question Presented
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3 months 3 weeks ago
Northsider Pete Perry is headed to the United States Supreme Court. That’s a big deal.
Pete Perry is one of two individual plaintiffs named in a legal issue involving how election rules are set. The lawsuit pits the Republican Party of Mississippi against the State of Mississippi. The issue is whether mail in ballots have to be received by the constitutionally mandated election date or whether they can be postmarked by that date and physically arrive days later.
Or to put more exactly, quoting the petition for writ of certiorari:
Question Presented
By Wyatt Emmerich on
3 months 3 weeks ago
Ruby Green Street entered her eternal heavenly home on December 7, 2025. She was born on January 2, 1951.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Chestine Wilborn (Tiner) Kennedy and Lila Louise Bishop; special brother, William Green; sister, Betty Fowler Green; uncle, Hines Gerome Bishop; granddaughter, Ashley Danielle Cantrell, and son-in-law, Will Hux.
She is survived by her husband, Howard Street; four children, Tina Hux, Bobby Joe Green, Billy Joe Green (Crystal), and Mitzie Cantrell (Charles); 15 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
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Brian Keith Purser, 52, passed away on November 26, 2025.
He was born on May 20, 1973. He is survived by his children, Evan Purser and Emma Purser; his mother, Beverly Lane Rainey; and his siblings, Lindsey Rainey Miller, Bradford Rainey Jr. (Megan), Scott Rainey (Benedicta), and a host of nieces and nephews.
He is preceded in death by his grandparents, Evon Harold Lane and Minnie Merle (Ross) Lane, and his great-grandparents, Drewy Hilton Ross, Lucille (Miley) Ross, John H. Lane, and Mary Lee (Waltman) Lane.
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Kenneth McGowan, a senior studying computer engineering, poses for a portrait at Mississippi State University in Starkville, on Aug. 18, 2025. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
The new unexpected expenses are hitting budgets at the same time as tuition increases and other general rising costs such as food and electricity.
Since transferring to Mississippi State University from Itawamba Community College in 2022, the cost of parking on campus has always been an issue for Madeline Comer.
Last spring, Comer got a $50 parking ticket because her license plates weren’t registered properly with the university’s parking services, she said. Comer, a junior studying graphic design, called to dispute the ticket.
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Kenneth McGowan, a senior studying computer engineering, poses for a portrait at Mississippi State University in Starkville, on Aug. 18, 2025. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
The new unexpected expenses are hitting budgets at the same time as tuition increases and other general rising costs such as food and electricity.
Since transferring to Mississippi State University from Itawamba Community College in 2022, the cost of parking on campus has always been an issue for Madeline Comer.
Last spring, Comer got a $50 parking ticket because her license plates weren’t registered properly with the university’s parking services, she said. Comer, a junior studying graphic design, called to dispute the ticket.
By Candice Wilder - Mississippi Today on
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Kenneth McGowan, a senior studying computer engineering, poses for a portrait at Mississippi State University in Starkville, on Aug. 18, 2025. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
The new unexpected expenses are hitting budgets at the same time as tuition increases and other general rising costs such as food and electricity.
Since transferring to Mississippi State University from Itawamba Community College in 2022, the cost of parking on campus has always been an issue for Madeline Comer.
Last spring, Comer got a $50 parking ticket because her license plates weren’t registered properly with the university’s parking services, she said. Comer, a junior studying graphic design, called to dispute the ticket.
By Candice Wilder - Mississippi Today on
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The Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara, at the front of the line, is the spiritual leader of the Walk for Peace. He led other Buddhist monks and their dog, Aloka, as they crossed the Natchez-Vidalia Bridge from Louisiana and arrived in Natchez, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, on Day 41 of their 2,300-mile pilgrimage to Washington to promote peace and kindness. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
Buddhist monks from Fort Worth, Texas, are walking on a 2,300-mile, 110-day pilgrimage to Washington, D.C., to promote peace, unity and kindness.
They left Oct. 26 from their Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center.
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The Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara, at the front of the line, is the spiritual leader of the Walk for Peace. He led other Buddhist monks and their dog, Aloka, as they crossed the Natchez-Vidalia Bridge from Louisiana and arrived in Natchez, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, on Day 41 of their 2,300-mile pilgrimage to Washington to promote peace and kindness. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
Buddhist monks from Fort Worth, Texas, are walking on a 2,300-mile, 110-day pilgrimage to Washington, D.C., to promote peace, unity and kindness.
They left Oct. 26 from their Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center.
By Vickie D. King - Mississippi Today on
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Kenneth McGowan, a senior studying computer engineering, poses for a portrait at Mississippi State University in Starkville, on Aug. 18, 2025. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
The new unexpected expenses are hitting budgets at the same time as tuition increases and other general rising costs such as food and electricity.
Since transferring to Mississippi State University from Itawamba Community College in 2022, the cost of parking on campus has always been an issue for Madeline Comer.
Last spring, Comer got a $50 parking ticket because her license plates weren’t registered properly with the university’s parking services, she said. Comer, a junior studying graphic design, called to dispute the ticket.
By Candice Wilder - Mississippi Today on
3 months 3 weeks ago
The Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara, at the front of the line, is the spiritual leader of the Walk for Peace. He led other Buddhist monks and their dog, Aloka, as they crossed the Natchez-Vidalia Bridge from Louisiana and arrived in Natchez, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, on Day 41 of their 2,300-mile pilgrimage to Washington to promote peace and kindness. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
Buddhist monks from Fort Worth, Texas, are walking on a 2,300-mile, 110-day pilgrimage to Washington, D.C., to promote peace, unity and kindness.
They left Oct. 26 from their Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center.
By Vickie D. King - Mississippi Today on
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In a rare show of bipartisan cooperation, Mississippi’s congressional delegation has sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer with concerns that new regulations implemented by the European Union will harm the state’s forestry industry.
The delegation wrote that the E.U. regulations “introduce substantial uncertainty” for the forestry industry and risk “further depressing already strained log and wood-product markets, harming rural communities that depend on healthy, functioning timber economies.”
By Katherine Lin - Mississippi Today on
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In a rare show of bipartisan cooperation, Mississippi’s congressional delegation has sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer with concerns that new regulations implemented by the European Union will harm the state’s forestry industry.
The delegation wrote that the E.U. regulations “introduce substantial uncertainty” for the forestry industry and risk “further depressing already strained log and wood-product markets, harming rural communities that depend on healthy, functioning timber economies.”
By Katherine Lin - Mississippi Today on
3 months 3 weeks ago
In a rare show of bipartisan cooperation, Mississippi’s congressional delegation has sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer with concerns that new regulations implemented by the European Union will harm the state’s forestry industry.
The delegation wrote that the E.U. regulations “introduce substantial uncertainty” for the forestry industry and risk “further depressing already strained log and wood-product markets, harming rural communities that depend on healthy, functioning timber economies.”
By Katherine Lin - Mississippi Today on
3 months 3 weeks ago
In a rare show of bipartisan cooperation, Mississippi’s congressional delegation has sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer with concerns that new regulations implemented by the European Union will harm the state’s forestry industry.
The delegation wrote that the E.U. regulations “introduce substantial uncertainty” for the forestry industry and risk “further depressing already strained log and wood-product markets, harming rural communities that depend on healthy, functioning timber economies.”
By Katherine Lin - Mississippi Today on
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1. Special election set for Court of Appeals Judge, District 1, Position 1
Governor Tate Reeves announced Tuesday that he has set a special election for the Office of Court of Appeals Judge, District 1, Position 1.
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1. Special election set for Court of Appeals Judge, District 1, Position 1
Governor Tate Reeves announced Tuesday that he has set a special election for the Office of Court of Appeals Judge, District 1, Position 1.
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1. Special election set for Court of Appeals Judge, District 1, Position 1
Governor Tate Reeves announced Tuesday that he has set a special election for the Office of Court of Appeals Judge, District 1, Position 1.
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Funeral services for Mr. George L. Magee were conducted at 11 a.m. on Saturday, December 6, 2025, at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Mt. Olive with the Reverend Trent Sullivan officiating. Interment followed in the Mt. Zion Cemetery. Mr. Magee, age 84, entered into the eternal rest of his Lord on December 1, 2025, at the St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson. Saulters Moore Funeral Home was entrusted with arrangements.
The family received friends on Saturday, December 6, from 9 a.m. until the hour of service at 11 a.m. at Mt. Zion Baptist Church.
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Wed, Dec 10 2025, 12 - 1pm
222 North Street
Jackson, MS 39201
United States
At noon on Wednesday, December 10, historian Justin Randolph will present “Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside” as part of the History Is Lunch series. Randolph will explore how law enforcement shaped life in the segregated South and how expanded police power between the Civil War and the civil rights movement reinforced systems of racial control. Randolph, an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University, is the author of Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside. This program will take place in the Craig H.
