Sep 29, 2025
Description: Mississippi Today reporter Alex Rozier gives an update on the city of Jackson’s third-party water utility system, how the organization's request to raise the water rates on customers in the capital city is playing out in federal court and if the water system can sustain natural disasters in the future.
Sep 22, 2025
Mississippi Today reporters Michael Goldberg and Taylor Vance recount their recent trip to Washington, D.C., and meetings with the state’s congressional delegation, covering topics including the use of National Guard troops in U.S. cities — potentially even in Jackson — disaster relief policies and the debate over...
Sep 15, 2025
Sep 8, 2025
Sen. Scott DeLano, a Republican from Biloxi, says Mississippi has done little to help protect South Mississippians from storm damages and residents statewide from rising insurance costs in the 20 years since Hurricane Katrina. He says Mississippi lags behind other Gulf states, in part, because the state insurance...
Sep 1, 2025
House Education Chairman Rob Roberson, on the heels of a first select committee hearing on school choice and other education policy, tells Mississippi Today that lawmakers should be open to discussions on school choice, consolidation or any other measures that might move the state's education system forward. "The only...