I'm thrilled that Mollie R. Simon, Agnel Philip 🌵🔎 and I are Livingston Award finalists for our reporting on how Mississippi routinely jails people who are not accused of any crime, solely because they may be mentally ill.

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New: Bombshell documents discovered through a public records request show oil companies can pay $5 million to vote on LSU's Institute for Energy research thelensnola.org/2024/04/19/lsu…

A Mississippi college financial aid program intended for the middle class has helped children of millionaires pay tuition.

But if the poorest students apply, they’ll be denied mississippitoday.org/2024/03/21/col…

A Mississippi college financial aid program has helped students from millionaire families pay tuition but not the state's poorest students.

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'Growing up, his mother warned him not to let a medical debt go to collections, and said it always felt like 'the medical industry was there to be feared.''

A bill to merge the Mississippi University for Women with another public institution was narrowly defeated in the Senate Wednesday.

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“Prairie Farms did notify us that they accidentally broke a valve unloading a truck, and they dumped a full tanker load of milk into that lagoon at once,” the mayor recalled.

Alex Rozier visited a 'milky lagoon' where a layer of dairy sludge is 2 feet deep

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The mayor of Columbus can't get ahold of the senator whose surprise bill would merge Mississippi University for Women with Mississippi State. h/t @cdispatch cdispatch.com/news/officials…

Key Mississippi lawmakers have introduced several bills that would drastically limit when people can be jailed without criminal charges as they await court-ordered psychiatric treatment.

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Gonna be on Marketplace for the 1st time this afternoon at 4:30pm-ish with a story about a 60-year-old Chicago woman who is trying to finish college but can't afford to because of her grades from 40 years ago. WBEZ Open Campus

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Great story from Molly Minta 🐟 on a Senate proposal to shut down three public universities.

MS Today talked to the bill's author, Republican Sen. John Polk of Hattiesburg, who admitted that the bill will likely die in committee.