Dustin Cardon

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Good Ole Days Festival

2 weeks ago | mississippifreepress.org | Dustin Cardon

On a sunny day in the mid-1960s, a young Danny Lynn Clark watched as his father, Robert E. Bobby Clark, rumbled down the road toward their family farm in Lucedale, Miss., aboard a rust-red Model A Farmall tractor. The elder Clark had purchased the tractor—a one-plow model produced throughout the 1940s—from a vendor some seven miles away and driven it down the highway to get it to the farm.
Trump Will Order Plan to Shut Down Education Department Today

1 month ago | mississippifreepress.org | Dustin Cardon |Collin Binkley |Chris Megerian

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the U.S. Education Department, according to a White House official, advancing a campaign promise to eliminate an agency that’s been a longtime target of conservatives. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity before an announcement. Trump has derided the Education Department as wasteful and polluted by liberal ideology.
Mississippi Senate Honors Longtime Reporter Emily Wagster Pettus

1 month ago | mississippifreepress.org | Dustin Cardon

Emily Wagster Pettus reported on the Mississippi Legislature for 31 years, attending hundreds of committee meetings and floor debates, covering thousands of bills and interviewing countless lawmakers. The Mississippi Senate honored her with a resolution on the Senate floor on March 6. Pettus started covering the Legislature in 1994 with The Clarion-Ledger before transitioning to reporting for the Associated Press in 2001.
Mississippi Protestors Decry DOGE and Trump’s Policy Barrage

2 months ago | mississippifreepress.org | Dustin Cardon

JACKSON, Miss.—Anna Corcoran had grown exhausted with just complaining about national politics. She wanted to share her frustrations in a way that felt meaningful. Although the 18-year-old Brandon, Miss., native grew up in a staunch Republican household, she found herself at odds with President Donald Trump’s policies targeting immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community and women’s reproductive rights. So on Feb.
Monticello Café Promotes Mississippi Musicians, Artists

2 months ago | mississippifreepress.org | Dustin Cardon

In the tiny town of Monticello, Miss., roughly an hour’s drive south of Jackson, a bright blue Victorian-style house overlooks the Pearl River. Constructed in the 1890s, the cupola atop the structure once served as an overlook for steamboats that plied the river that long served as a local transportation route.
Mississippi No Longer Leads Nation in Childhood Vaccines

2 months ago | mississippifreepress.org | Dustin Cardon

JACKSON, Miss.—Mississippi no longer has the highest rate of childhood vaccinations in the country, falling from first to third place between 2023 and 2024 after a federal judge ruled that the state must allow religious exemptions for childhood vaccinations. Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Daniel Edney announced the decline during a press conference in the Mississippi Capitol Building on Tuesday.
Local Marvels on Display at Union County Heritage Museum

Dec 30, 2024 | mississippifreepress.org | Dustin Cardon

In the summer of 2016, Jackson-native paleontologist George Phillips and Michael Estes, a field volunteer with the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, picked their way along a forested creek bed in the Hell Creek Wildlife Management Area just north of New Albany, Miss. While parts of the creek had dried completely in the sun, others sections still had ankle-deep water interspersed with larger pools at least a few feet deep through which the two men carefully waded.
Everyday Mississippians Achieve Ambitions, Serve Communities

Dec 27, 2024 | mississippifreepress.org | Dustin Cardon

The arrival of the holiday season also means that New Year’s is just on the horizon. The turning of the year is a time of reflection for many, and as 2024 draws to an end, I find myself reflecting on the many people from all walks of life across Mississippi I’ve had the chance to learn about over the past year.
Jackson Voters Faced Long Wait Times, Parking Issues

Dec 3, 2024 | messenger-inquirer.com | Dustin Cardon |Illan Martin Ireland

Jackson, MS (Mississippi Free Press)JACKSON, Miss. -- Dark clouds gave way to scattered sunshine Tuesday morning as residents of Jackson, Miss., and surrounding municipalities headed to the polls to vote in the 2024 U.S. election. Though rain had replaced the sun by early afternoon, voters continued to stream into the churches, community centers and other facilities that doubled as polling locations on Election Day. kAm%96 2E>@DA96C6 2E >2?J y24<D@? 2C62 A@==:?8 DE2E:@?D H2D C6=2I65[ 6G6?
Person of the Day

Nov 20, 2024 | mississippifreepress.org | Dustin Cardon

It had been a day like any other when Michael Bishop, who was volunteering at his home church of Chester Baptist in Ackerman, Miss., looked up from his work to see Pastor Rob Falk coming his way. Falk had just gotten word that the local Choctaw County Food Ministry, a nonprofit that provides food assistance to impoverished people, was in need of volunteers of its own, and he asked if Bishop could lend his assistance.