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The bills are flying in Jackson, and the stakes feel close to home. We kick off with a clear-eyed look at the “Freedom of Education” proposal: what it really does, what it costs, and why bipartisan opposition formed around accountability gaps and the risk of draining public school budgets. We talk honestly about how school choice can touch property values and what the Starkville-Oktibbeha consolidation taught us about raising the floor without lowering the ceiling.
Representative Kabir Karim joins us to push for something that should be simple: splitting Martin Luther King Jr. Day from Robert E. Lee Day. He explains why the dual holiday is a contradiction, how it clashes with ongoing fights for voting rights, and where Lee commemorations could reasonably live.
Then we bring it downtown—literally—with a $209,000 pavilion behind the courthouse and the Fifth Street North rebuild. Historic district rules, sidewalk upgrades, traffic calming, bikes, pedestrians, cones everywhere: we break down costs, benefits, and why the finished product needs to earn everyday use, not just look good on a plan.
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The bills are flying in Jackson, and the stakes feel close to home. We kick off with a clear-eyed look at the “Freedom of Education” proposal: what it really does, what it costs, and why bipartisan opposition formed around accountability gaps and the risk of draining public school budgets. We talk honestly about how school choice can touch property values and what the Starkville-Oktibbeha consolidation taught us about raising the floor without lowering the ceiling.
Representative Kabir Karim joins us to push for something that should be simple: splitting Martin Luther King Jr. Day from Robert E. Lee Day. He explains why the dual holiday is a contradiction, how it clashes with ongoing fights for voting rights, and where Lee commemorations could reasonably live.
Then we bring it downtown—literally—with a $209,000 pavilion behind the courthouse and the Fifth Street North rebuild. Historic district rules, sidewalk upgrades, traffic calming, bikes, pedestrians, cones everywhere: we break down costs, benefits, and why the finished product needs to earn everyday use, not just look good on a plan.

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