By Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune New cut scores for the fifth grade math assessment and an updated excused absence policy were adopted by the Mississippi State Board of Education during a meeting last week. Establishment of the new cut scores and...
By Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune The Mississippi Cattlemen’s Association and the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation are pushing back on President Donald Trump’s plan to allow 300,000 metric tons of government-subsidized ground beef into the U.S. supply...
Governor Tate Reeves today announced that Mississippi’s total nonfarm employment reached a new record high in July with 1,196,200 jobs. “There’s been no shortage of record-breaking economic news for Mississippi over the last six-plus...
Governor Tate Reeves recently announced Dr. Daniel “Deano” Harrison as Director of the Mississippi Office of Apprenticeship, also known as ApprenticeshipMS. Harrison previously served as a Workforce Development Manager for AccelerateMS, where he...
By Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune “I’m just a down-to-earth, common-sense man.” That is how Kyle Cockrell described himself this week in an interview with Magnolia Tribune. The central Mississippi owner of Cockrell’s Farmers Market is the first...
By Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune The establishment of specialized mental health crisis units in emergency rooms in Mississippi aims to fill a missing component in the state’s continuum of care. As part of the Rural Health Transformation Program,...
