On Wednesday, the Mississippi House and Senate reached an agreement on the START Act, detailing a teacher pay raise plan that would raise the base salaries...
The U.S. Senate unanimously approved S.623, the Sunshine Protection Act. The act, co-sponsored by U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), would make Daylight Saving Time the new,...
by Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today March 14, 2022 The tax cut battle between Mississippi Republican House and Senate leaders continued Monday with each chamber overhauling its...
by Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today March 10, 2022 The House has offered a “compromise” $226 million teacher pay raise to the state Senate. But Senate leaders...
by Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today March 1, 2022 House leaders, for the second consecutive year on a key deadline day, killed a Senate bill, essentially forcing...
by Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today February 2, 2022 Saying he still has concerns about it — and would have written it differently — Gov. Tate Reeves...
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today February 2, 2022 Feb. 1 was the deadline to pass general bills and constitutional resolutions out of committee in the chamber...
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today January 31, 2022 The right for Mississippians to bypass the Legislature and place issues on the election ballot would be restored...
by Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today January 24, 2022 The Mississippi Senate almost unanimously approved spending $177.3 million of federal American Rescue Plan Act money Monday with...
House Bill 530, the Strategically Accelerating the Recruitment and Retention of Teachers (START) Act, passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday with a 114-6 vote. The...
