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- Jackson's rental registration manager Victoria Love, in discussion during a meeting of the Jackson Housing Task Force, Monday, Sept. 8, 2025, in Jackson. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
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‘Not just the wild, wild west’: Jackson rental registry off to the races after landlord lawsuit
By MOLLY MINTA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,12/19/25-4:28PM , 1,339 Reads 10,987 Statewide
Victoria Love, the city of Jackson’s rental registration manager, scrunched her eyebrows together into a deep line, mimicking the confused expression she said Mayor John Horhn made the first time she introduced herself to him in 2024. He was a state senator at the time.
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- Nickeda Shelton at the Northeast Mississippi Community College campus in Booneville, Miss., on Nov. 20, 2025. Credit: Allen Siegler / Mississippi Today
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Northeast Mississippians reflect on how they want their communities to change
By ALLEN SIEGLER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,12/19/25-4:20PM , 1,235 Reads 11,520 Statewide
Walking through a parking lot at Northeast Mississippi Community College on a November afternoon, Nickeda Shelton was eager to get to her job as one of the school’s student counselors.
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Legislative watchdog: Mississippi prisoners likely receive inadequate dental care amid chronic staffing shortages, weak monitoring
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,12/19/25-4:18PM , 593 Reads 7,595 Statewide
Mississippi prisoners were likely left without adequate dental care for months as the state’s private prison health care contractor failed to meet staffing requirements and the Department of Corrections failed to document the problem, according to a new legislative watchdog report.
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Magnolia Mornings: December 19, 2025
By MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE STAFF
Fri,12/19/25-4:08PM , 1,268 Reads 10,693 Statewide
Important state and national stories, market and business news, sports and entertainment, delivered in quick-hit fashion
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