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#tpvMississippi's economy is eying roughly $49 billion in data center investment. Is it really the anchor Mississippi's waited a century for, or technical extraction in a hard hat?
By Views·Jul 11, 2026·5 min read
#week-aheadMississippi events July 6–12: blues portraits in Jackson, live music in Starkville, a Coliseum rodeo, and festivals statewide.
Views·Jul 7, 2026
#main-featureIt's time for everyone to see the Sip from the inside. Come home. You're welcome.
Views·Jul 4, 2026
#celebrationsSomebody in your life did the thing. Walked the stage. Got the degree. Made it across when the making-it-across was never guaranteed. And you have been carrying that pride around in your chest with nowhere big enough to put it — because a text to the family group chat doesn't hold it, and a post that disappears down a feed by Tuesday doesn't hold it either. Put it here. Let us hold it with you. Celebrations in the Sip is a small, permanent place to honor your person — publicly, beautifully
Views·Jul 2, 2026
#tpvFrom Audre Lorde's political framing to today's $1.8 trillion wellness economy — perspectives on whether self-care has become a substitute for the community work it was originally designed to support.
Views·May 31, 2026
#voting-rightsWhat the April 29, 2026 Louisiana v. Callais ruling does, who it affects most, the data behind it, and how Mississippi's May 20 special session will reshape the state's electoral maps.
Views·Apr 29, 2026
#thought-provoking-viewsOn Saturday evening, April 25, 2026, Megan Thee Stallion took to Instagram to publicly end her relationship with Dallas Mavericks guard Klay Thompson. The post was direct in a way celebrity breakups rarely are. Cheating, she wrote. Had me around your whole family playing house. She gave a follow-up statement to Page Six the same evening: Trust, fidelity and respect are non-negotiable for me in a relationship, and when those values are compromised, there's no real path forward. The story moved
Views·Apr 26, 2026
#artsIf you've heard pop radio in the past ten years, you've heard Mississippi raised, singer-songwriter, KIRBY. You just didn't know it. So get familiar.
Views·Apr 25, 2026
#creativesJesmyn Ward — two-time National Book Award winner, MacArthur Fellow, DeLisle resident — releases her first essay collection *On Witness and Respair: Essays* on May 19, 2026, from Scribner. Mississippi readers should pre-order now.
Views·Apr 23, 2026
#community-newsThe 11th Mississippi Book Festival drew thousands to the State Capitol on September 13, 2025. The 12th festival is scheduled for September 26, 2026. Here's what made 2025 work — and what we're hoping to see in 2026.
Views·Apr 21, 2026
#educationAfter a decade of presidential turnover, eight months of national search, seventy-nine applicants, Jackson State chose its own. Dr. Denise Jones Gregory was named the 14th president of Jackson State University on April 16, 2026 — the first JSU alumna to permanently lead the institution.
Views·Apr 16, 2026
#jacksonA $250,000 property tax shortfall is the smallest part of Jackson's mid-year budget problem. The Jackson City Council is holding line-by-line finance meetings to figure out what's underperforming and why. The deeper issue just may be a structural one.
Views·Apr 11, 2026
#jackson-stateJSU alumnus Tramell Tillman won the Emmy and the Critics' Choice Award for *Severance*, then landed a role in Marvel's *Spider-Man: Brand New Day*. Here's what his run means for Jackson State, MADDRAMA, and Mississippi.
Views·Apr 8, 2026
#sundayviewsMorgan Freeman's Symphonic Blues Experience ended at Thalia Mara Hall on March 27, 2026, with Mayor Horhn proclaiming Morgan Freeman Day. The "Sinners" film and a generation of Delta blues artists are driving a real renaissance.
Views·Apr 7, 2026
#politicsThe 2026 Mississippi legislative session adjourned April 5 with the Metro Jackson Water Authority Act and a partial Medicaid budget passed — but Medicaid expansion, teacher pay, ballot initiative restoration, and redistricting all failed. Here's what happened, and what comes next.
Views·Apr 6, 2026
#jacksonWard 4 Councilman Brian Grizzell has introduced an ordinance that would put a 183-day moratorium on new data centers in Jackson while the city writes a regulatory framework. It's the first time a Mississippi municipality has paused to ask what the data center boom is actually costing.
Views·Mar 26, 2026
#community-newsA James Beard-winning soul food institution and the Jackson Black-owned restaurant scene that built the city's food culture — Bully's, Sugar's Place, Big Apple Inn, Johnny T's, and more.
Views·Mar 20, 2026