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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Brandon Presley and Mississippi Association of Educators President Erica Jones address the concerns of educators during a town hall meeting held at the Hilton Hotel in Jackson, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

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Brandon Presley to teachers: educating Mississippi children is ‘the most important thing’

By JULIA JAMES - MISSISSIPPI TODAY JULIA JAMES - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,09/29/23-10:48AM, 265 Reads 9,567 Statewide
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Brandon Presley called for fully funding public schools and increasing teacher pay as he laid out his education policy priorities in a Monday town hall.
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Orange groves at Ben & Ben Becnel, Inc. are seen along the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, La., Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. Citrus farmers in the southeast corner of Louisiana are scrambling to protect and save their crops from salt water, which for months has polluted the fresh water they use for irrigation. A mass flow of salt water from the Gulf of Mexico continues to creep up the Mississippi River and threaten Louisiana communities water used for drinking, cooking and agriculture. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith)

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Louisiana citrus farmers are seeing a mass influx of salt water that could threaten seedlings

By SARA CLINE SARA CLINE - Associated Press
Thu,09/28/23-7:35PM, 83 Reads
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Commercial citrus growers have dwindled over the past few decades in south Louisiana, where farmers have had to battle hurricanes, flooding, invasive insects, freezes and drought to keep their groves alive.
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Biden is ironic UAW darling

Thu,09/28/23-7:04PM, 704 Reads 20,122 Statewide
Joe Biden, the multimillionaire president who likes to play up his “working man” roots, took the unusual step this week of walking a picket line, joining in solidarity with striking workers at an auto parts distribution warehouse outside of Detroit.
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A person previously convicted of a felony felon holds a sign about voter suppression during a Poor People's Campaign assembly, April 19, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. A significant expansion of voting rights in Mississippi was put in doubt Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, when a federal appeals court said it's reconsidering an earlier decision to allow people convicted of certain felonies to cast ballots. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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US court will reconsider ruling that granted voting rights to Mississippians convicted of felonies

By KEVIN MCGILL KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Thu,09/28/23-5:26PM, 75 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A significant expansion of voting rights in Mississippi was put in doubt Thursday when a federal appeals court said it's reconsidering an earlier decision to allow people convicted of certain felonies to cast ballots.
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