A bill moving through the MS Legislature would increase tax rates on Jackson hotels and restaurants, benefitting the city's ...

In Mississippi, 38 percent of residents are Black yet there are no Black statewide elected officials. The last time a Black ...

Some states give multiple tax breaks to retirees. Nine states have no income tax, including Washington, which only taxes high earners' capital gains.

On the night of June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers stepped out of his Oldsmobile parked in the driveway of his Jackson, Mississippi ...

Cooperation has been in short supply for the last three years, as the Republican leadership of the two chambers has sparred ...

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith has fended off a Republican primary challenger and will advance to the general election in Mississippi, NBC News projects ...

A few hundred bills still stand a chance at becoming law by the end of the session. See some recreation and criminal justice bills are still alive.

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President Trump, in a rally-like speech in Kentucky, stressed familiar talking points on the economy, highlighting tax cuts ...

Plugging the Oregon Department of Transportation’s budget crisis will mean redirecting funds from Safe Routes to School, Connect Oregon and more.

The school choice train left the station in Florida long ago, boasting massive support and two decades of positive research.

The political theorist Hannah Arendt once delivered a warning about the power of the state that resonates today as much as it ...