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@ISSUE — 79 episodes

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@ISSUE • Will foreign beef imports hurt Mississippi cattle producers? • Sen. Andy Berry interview

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@ISSUE • Public Meetings on Redistricting Begin

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@ISSUE • Hyperscale Data Centers in Mississippi

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@ISSUE • Changes ahead for universities & community colleges? (Part 2) • Rep. Zakiya Summers interview

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@ISSUE • Changes ahead for universities & community colleges? • Sen. Nicole Boyd interview

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@ISSUE • Youth Court Special Session: Legislature passes major reforms

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@ISSUE • Mississippi's Youth Court Crisis: How did this happen?

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@ISSUE • New Mississippi Laws In Effect July 1

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@ISSUE • Politickin' at the Neshoba County Fair

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@ISSUE • School District Consolidation

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@ISSUE • The Rural Health Transformation Program in Mississippi

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@ISSUE • Interview with Jackson Mayor John Horhn

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@ISSUE • Redistricting is ahead...but not just yet.

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@ISSUE • Will Mississippi join other states in redrawing congressional districts?

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@ISSUE • The U.S. Supreme Court's Calais decision reinterprets the 1965 Voting Rights Act. What will the impact be for Mississippi?

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@ISSUE • Mississippi’s Shield Act: Protecting election integrity or disenfranchising voters?

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@ISSUE • All about April 15: a very strange day at the Capitol

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@ISSUE • Mississippi’s Opioid Settlement Funds: How will the state spend its $400 million?

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@ISSUE • The 2026 Mississippi Legislative Session is over…for now.

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@ISSUE • Storm Relief Veto Controversy • $7.4B State Budget • $2K Teacher Pay Raise • SHIELD Act • Pharmacy Benefit Managers • Supreme Court Redistricting

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@ISSUE • Special Needs Education Tax Credits • PERS Changes • Jackson Water System • Medical Cannabis • Local & Private Bills

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@ISSUE • Competing teacher pay raise bills • MDOC controversies • House Education Chairman Rob Roberson interview

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@ISSUE • House passes teacher pay raise and changes to PERS • Senator David Blount interview

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@ISSUE • Information Technology • Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Legislative Deadlines • Sen. Bradford Blackmon Interview

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@ISSUE • School Choice Special Session ahead? • Infant Mortality Review Board • ABC Troubles • Opioid Settlement Funds • Rep. Robert Johnson interview

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@ISSUE • Sen. Jeremy England interview • Ballot Initiative • School Prayer • Immigration Enforcement • Abortion Drug Criminalization • School Attendance Officers • Literacy Intervention • Prison Health Care

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@ISSUE •  Senator Derrick Simmons interview • Senate Education Committee kills HB2 • Prison reform  • Ballot initiative • Immigration laws

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@ISSUE • Immigration Enforcement • Domestic Abuser Registry • Midwife Practice • Elected School Boards • And more…

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@ISSUE • HB 2, the Mississippi Education Freedom Act, passes in the House.

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@ISSUE • School Choice • Teacher Pay Raise • Funding PERS • House Bill 2: The Mississippi Education Freedom Act

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@ISSUE • The 2026 Mississippi Legislative session begins • Legislative Process • School Choice • Ballot Initiative • Budget Concerns

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@ISSUE • Special Session Edition • Budget bills pass, but not without controversy

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@ISSUE • Legislature ends session with unfinished business • Special session ahead

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@ISSUE • Mississippi eliminates the personal income tax

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@ISSUE • Income tax cut via typo? • Sen. Josh Harkins interview • Public Employee Retirement System changes

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@ISSUE • Tax cuts & the State budget • Medicaid rally at Capitol • Sen. Bryan interview • Public health issues

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@ISSUE • Remembering Robert Clark • School choice • Tax reform • Presumptive eligibility • Mobile sports betting

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@ISSUE • Legislative redistricting • Roads & bridges •Tax cut bills • Casino tax • Israel caucus

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@ISSUE • Senate tax cut bill • Advanced practice nurses bill • Parental leave • PERS changes • Wine & liquor sales • Hemp product regulation

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@ISSUE • Senate tax cut plan • School choice bill dead? • Criminalizing grooming • Early voting controversy • Domestic Violence Fatality Review bill

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@ISSUE • School choice • Anti-DEI measures • Early voting • Ballot initiative • Felon voting rights • Domestic violence study • Agricultural torts • Online wine sales

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@ISSUE | Governor’s State of the State address - Education legislation - Energy policy - Income tax elimination

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@ISSUE | New ballot initiative bill - Medicaid presumptive eligibility re-do - School choice - MAGA & Mississippi

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@Issue | The 2025 Legislative session begins - Tax Reform - Medicare Expansion - School Choice

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@ ISSUE | The 2025 Season is Almost Here

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@ ISSUE | Medicaid expansion fails. Education funding succeeds. '24 Legislative Session Ends.

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@ ISSUE | The ‘24 session winds down. Medicaid debate continues. Changes to PERS

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@ ISSUE | Government transparency. Medicaid expansion. Education funding. Conference committees.

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@ ISSUE | Legislative transparency. Medicaid expansion. Roads & bridges

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@ ISSUE | Early Voting Bill. PERS. Felon Voting Rights. INSPIRE Act

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@Issue | Senate Medicaid expansion. Public funds & private schools. Education funding. Black women’s issues.

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@ ISSUE | Medicaid Bill Controversy.Faith Leaders Speak Up.Future of PERS

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@ ISSUE | Jackson Water. Medicaid. MS Universities. Retirement System

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@ ISSUE | Ed Funding. Medicaid Expansion. Campaign Finance. Voting Access.

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@ ISSUE | State of The State Address. Interview with Sen. Derrick Simmons

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@ ISSUE | Interview with Speaker of the House Jason White

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@ ISSUE | Medicaid expansion. Felon voting rights. DEI. Interview with Rep. Robert Johnson

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@ ISSUE | The ‘24 session begins. Interview with Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann

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Mississippi lawmakers conclude 2021 legislative session

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Final days of the 2021 session

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Lawmakers continue squabbling over the House tax reform plan

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Gov. Reeves signs bill limiting transgender athletes

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The House passes a bill limiting transgender athletes

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The Mississippi Tax Freedom Act

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Historic winter weather brings legislative action to a near halt

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Medical marijuana, transgender athletes, Medicaid expansion

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Lawmakers mark deadline to pass bills out of committee

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Gov. Reeves delivers his second State of the State speech

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Teachers in Miss. Could soon see a pay increase

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It’s official. Mississippi is flying a new state flag.

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@Issue Special: Mississippi's Debate Over Legalizing Medical Marijuana

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@Issue: Coronavirus Crisis | A one-on-one with State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs

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New DHS Director Appointed, State Prepares for Coronavirus

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Advocates Rally Against a Welfare Verification Bill

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Closing Parchmans's Unit 29, Mental Health Lawsuit, Historic Flood Recovery

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Lawmakers Pass Welfare Verification Bill Along Party Lines

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Federal Investigation Opens Over Conditions at State Prisons

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2020 State of the State Address, School Choice Week

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Mississippi's Prison Unrest and Response from State Leaders