Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz will visit Mississippi Monday, just before the state primaries open Tuesday. These will be only the second time both candidates have campaigned in the state. Trump, who won 319 delegates and seven states in the Super Tuesday primary, will hold a rally at 7 p.m. at Madison Central High School. Doors will open...
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WASTED AWAY AGAIN IN MARGARITAVILLE Or Pascagoula. This week, Mississippi legislators voted to name a Gulf Coast beach in Pascagoula “Buffett Beach,” after Mississippi native Jimmy Buffett. According to the Sun Herald, the bill passed easily, with a total of votes in favor 119-1. Buffett was born in Pascagoula before he moved to Mobile. The bill has now moved to the...
On slow days, the House of Representatives names post offices. These are typically boring days, and each name is unanimously voted “yes.” On Tuesday, March 1, nine Republican representatives voted against naming a post office after Maya Angelou. Angelou, who died in May 2014, was a renowned poet and civil rights activist, and her voice has had an immeasurable influence...
University of Mississippi physicists have been awarded $3 million by the U.S. Department of Energy to conduct Nuclear fuel storage research over the next three years on ways to assess the internal components of a dry cask storage. According to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, by the end of 2009 there were more than 62,000 tons of spent fuel accumulated in the United...
