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Legal fight over control of Jackson airport continues

1 day ago | magnoliatribune.com | Daniel Tyson

The State of Mississippi is seeking to follow a 2016 law that created a regional board to oversee the airport while the City of Jackson alleges the takeover has racist motivations. A U.S. District Court has denied a motion to dismiss filed by the State of Mississippi in a lawsuit challenging its efforts to gain control of the Jackson airport. The state has sought control of the Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport since 2016.
Southern food served in a roadside relic

2 days ago | magnoliatribune.com | Susan Marquez

Mammy’s Cupboard in Natchez serves daily specials Tuesday through Saturday. In the 1940s and ‘50s when highways were being built throughout the United States, car culture was all the rage as Americans took to their automobiles to see other parts of the country. In an effort to attract those tourists, interesting roadside architecture began popping up. Natchez businessman Harry Gaude built the iconic Mammy’s Cupboard in 1939, opening for business in 1940.
Jackson council revises hiring freeze, allows some positions to be filled ahead of new term

3 days ago | magnoliatribune.com | Daniel Tyson

Mayor Lumumba will leave office later this month, making way for newly elected Mayor, State Senator John Horhn to take the reins at City Hall. The Jackson City Council has revised an ordinance allowing some hiring as the current term winds down. During its Tuesday meeting, the council reversed an action taken last month that froze hiring until June 30 on all vacant positions after the outgoing mayor announced two hires in key positions following his primary election loss.
Lt. Gov. Hosemann, Speaker White look ahead to 2026 session

3 days ago | magnoliatribune.com | Daniel Tyson

Education, PERS and streamlining state government top the priority list for the legislative leaders. Next year’s legislative session could see several bills aimed at continuing the “Mississippi Miracle” in public education as well as streamlining state government, House and Senate leaders said late last week. Speaker Jason White (R) said during a press conference Friday that the House will create a study committee to explore school choice legislation.
Bo Robinson, appointed to PSC after jarring corruption scandals, dies at age 90

3 days ago | magnoliatribune.com | Sid Salter

Columnist Sid Salter remember Robinson, a distinguished veteran of county, state, and district politics in Mississippi, who passed away peacefully at his residence in Hamilton on May 26.
Dusti Bonge’: Modernist of the South

3 days ago | magnoliatribune.com | Susan Marquez

She is considered Mississippi’s first Abstract Expressionist painter and its first Modernist artist. Dusti Bongé, whose real name was Eunice Lyle Swetman, was the youngest of three children born to a prominent Biloxi, Mississippi, banking family. Always an artistic child, Bonge’ attended Blue Mountain College in northeastern Mississippi before graduating from the Lyceum Arts Conservatory in Chicago.
The door at the bottom

5 days ago | magnoliatribune.com | Robert St. John

Robert St. John reflects on this journey, writing that sobriety has given him things alcohol only promised. On May 25, 1983, I was 21 years old—lost and heading nowhere fast. That night, I was fspeeding down 4th Street in my hometown of Hattiesburg, headlights off, 90 mph, foot on the gas. It was 2 a.m. Three police cars chased behind me, blue lights flashing. Reckless. Irresponsible. Dangerous. I don’t remember much else—except the DUI. I was due. And it was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Hosemann, White recap special session, address tension between chambers

1 week ago | magnoliatribune.com | Daniel Tyson

Lt. Gov. Delbert Hoseman said he plans to reread former U.S. Senator Trent Lott’s book Herding Cats now that their legislative work is done. “Perhaps the Speaker should read it, too,” he said. At the end of regular legislative session in April, Governor Tate Reeves (R) said lawmakers needed “to go to their corners, get some water and towel off” before he called a special session to finish the state budget, a nod to the tension between the two chambers.
Legislature adds $16 million to education funding formula, other areas of the K-12 budget

1 week ago | magnoliatribune.com | Jeremy Pittari

Increases related to addressing reading deficiencies and covering rising health insurance costs were among the funds added to Mississippi’s education budget. The budget for the K-12 public education system in Mississippi has been set, with lawmakers increasing the student funding formula by $16 million over the prior year. State Senator Dennis DeBar (R), Chairman of the Senate Education Committee, presented HB 42 on the floor of the Senate during this week’s special session.
Jackson voters to elect next mayor, city council on Tuesday

1 week ago | magnoliatribune.com | Frank Corder |Daniel Tyson

John Horhn is the frontrunner to be the Mayor of Mississippi’s capital city but there are five others name on the ballot. See who is running for mayor and city council in Jackson. Six candidates will be on the ballot for Mayor in Jackson’s Municipal General Election on Tuesday, June 3, with State Senator John Horhn (D) the odds-on favorite to win the seat after defeating incumbent Mayor Chokwe Lumumba in the Democratic Primary.