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Rep. Clay Mansell, center left, and Rep. Shanda Yates, right, co-chairs of the Select Committee on Capital and Metro Revitalization, listen as Jackson Mayor John Horhn speaks during a meeting at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Miss., on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today

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House passes Jackson water authority bill with more say from city leaders
By ALEX ROZIER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,02/13/26-4:08PM , 456 Reads 4,762 Statewide
Jackson’s water and sewer systems would be under the control of an authority separate from the city government under a bill the state House passed Wednesday. The change would take place once U.S. District Court Judge Henry Wingate releases the city from its current receivership
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Court to review alternatives to Jackson water rate increase. Utility brushes them aside
By ALEX ROZIER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,02/13/26-3:04PM , 143 Reads 2,306 Statewide
A federal court is reviewing proposed alternatives to a rate increase for customers in Jackson, home to one of the most historically troubled water and sewer systems in the country and where over 1 in 4 people live in poverty.
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‘We as a state failed them’: Senators call for improved disaster response after winter storm
By ALEX ROZIER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,02/13/26-10:58AM , 183 Reads 2,565 Statewide
The discussion came as the Senate passed a bill that would create a disaster response loan program.

North Mississippi senators pleaded for an improved disaster response from the state Thursday as thousands of their constituents still lacked power nearly three weeks after the January winter storm.
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Lonnie Whiting Jr., a resident at the Unita Blackwell Stay Apartments in Mayersville, expressed joy in having electricity restored at the complex. "Everything is electric, so it was hard, but we making it," Whiting said on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

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A winter storm is just the latest test of resilience in the sparsely populated south Delta
By ALEX ROZIER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,02/05/26-12:30PM , 388 Reads 5,757 Statewide
Preparing to feed a revolving door of linemen Monday at her restaurant Chuck’s Dairy Bar, Tracy Harden recalled the winter storm of 1994, the last one that resembled what many Mississippians have lived through the past two weeks. It was then, 32 years ago, she stumbled upon a lineman she still knows well to this day.
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