Legislative approval isn’t the last step in a bill becoming law. Governor Tate Reeves vetoed a handful of bills last week.

A budget reportedly being considered by President Trump could strip all Head Start funding. The early education program helps ...

During Friday's event, when asked how Head Start's elimination would affect Mississippi in particular, NIEER Senior Director ...

The article points to the failure of Republicans to pass a state budget during the regular legislative session as evidence of their incompetence. Frustration and alarm. That was the mood at a recent ...

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has vetoed eight bills that lawmakers sent to his desk during the 2025 legislative session ...

Of those, records show JPD had gone through 74 percent of its overtime budget of $1,052,264, leaving just $271,862 to carry ...

An official opinion of the office of Attorney General Jim Hood issued in 2009 said if there is no budget passed by the Legislature, those services mandated in the Mississippi Constitution ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Sweeping federal cuts are impacting dozens of students here in the Capital City. For some students at ...

The Trump administration's proposed 2026 budget could eliminate Head Start funding, impacting 800,000 children nationwide. In Mississippi, Head Start serves 25,000 children and 238 pregnant mothers.

He told news reporters, scores of lobbyists and health care advocates who had set up camp in the Capitol as midnight on July 1 approached that, while he believed the tax would hurt Mississippi ...