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House Judiciary B Committee Chairman Nick Bain, R-Corinth, explains some facets of House Concurrent Resolution 39 that sets a new way for people to petition to put issues on statewide ballots, Tuesday Feb. 8, 2022, at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Mississippi: Teacher pay, initiatives still alive midsession
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Mon,02/14/22-1:00PM , 453 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators are halfway through their three-month session. Here are some issues still being considered:
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CORRECTS SPELLING OF FIRST NAME TO D’MONTERRIO - FedEx driver D'Monterrio Gibson, left, stands next to his attorney, Carlos Moore, during a news conference in Ridgeland, Miss., Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. Gibson and his attorneys say the delivery driver was shot at and chased by a white father and son in Brookhaven while making deliveries, and that both suspects have been "undercharged" and call upon the authorities to instead charge the pair with attempted murder and hate crimes. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Hate crime probe sought in Mississippi attempted shooting
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Thu,02/10/22-5:37PM , 313 Reads
RIDGELAND, Miss.
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A statue of the late Gov. Theodore Gilmore Bilbo stands out from the back of a first floor conference room at the Capitol Jan. 22, 2009 in Jackson, Miss. A statue of white supremacist former Mississippi Gov. Theodore Bilbo was quietly moved out of sight in the state Capitol in recent months — a move praised by Black lawmakers who say a politician who built a career on racist rhetoric never deserved a place of prominence.(AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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Statue of racist Mississippi ex-Gov. Bilbo stashed in closet
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Wed,02/09/22-12:52PM , 315 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mystery solved: The top administrator in the Mississippi House says he unilaterally made the decision to take a statue of a racist former Gov. Theodore Bilbo off public display and put it into storage.
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Rep. Nick Bain, R-Corinth, uses his cell phone to take a photograph of the lawmakers in the House chamber at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. Lawmakers in both chambers have a Thursday deadline for original floor action on general bills and constitutional amendments originating in their own House. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Mississippi could revive a form of initiative process
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Tue,02/08/22-4:05PM , 297 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators are working to set a new way for people to petition to put issues on statewide ballots, months after the state Supreme Court tossed out the state's old initiative process.
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