JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A prominent Mississippi business leader said Wednesday the decision to change the state’s flag has removed a “significant impediment” to economic development in Mississippi. Mississippi lawmakers voted last year to retire a Confederate-themed flag state as…
The new Mississippi State flag unifies the state and represents growth. Today, the City of Moss Point raised the new flag for the first time. ‘In God we Trust,’ now flying over Moss Point City Hall, history in the making…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a bill that gives the state a new flag with a magnolia and the phrase, “In God We Trust.” The bill signing happened Monday,…
Mississippi lawmakers are finishing the process of adopting the new state flag with a magnolia and the phrase ‘In God we Trust.’ It’s happening six months after legislators retired the last state flag in the U.S. with…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Officials in Jackson are the latest to opt to fly the new Mississippi state flag ahead of legislative approval. Voters approved a new Mississippi state flag decorated with a magnolia and the phrase “In God We…
Today Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann made his way down to the Mississippi Gulf Coast where he spoke at an event hosted by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce and presented Mississippi’s new state flag. Lt. Governor Delbert…
Mississippi has a new state flag. Tuesday, residents had to decide whether to accept a new state flag to replace one that had the Confederate battle emblem. A single design featuring a magnolia encircled by stars and…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi will fly a new state flag with a magnolia and the phrase “In God We Trust,” with voters approving the design Tuesday. It replaces a Confederate-themed flag state lawmakers retired months ago as part of…
Mississippi voters are deciding whether to accept a new state flag to replace one that had the Confederate battle emblem. Lawmakers retired the old one months ago as part of a national reckoning over racial injustice. A…
Not everyone is in support of removing the old Mississippi state flag, the campaign ‘Let Mississippi Vote’ is trying to put the old flag back on the ballot. Their goal is to allow Mississippians to vote to keep their current…
Mississippi continued its quest for a new state flag today. The original 3,000 flag designs submitted from the public were narrowed down to two and now there’s one. The committee’s final selection is the flag with the Magnolia blossom and…
A commission working on a new Mississippi state flag has narrowed the choices to two designs. One has a shield and the other has a magnolia blossom on a dark blue background. Commissioners made the decision after five proposals were…
The commission to redesign the Mississippi state flag reconvened this morning to vote for the final five flag designs. The five designs will be put on fabric and the commission will take public input from Mississippians to determine the final…
Some Mississippi residents are rebelling against the legislatures’ decision to retire the former Confederate-themed state flag. They are being encouraged by conservative legislators who fought the change. Organizers of a group called ‘Let Mississippi Vote’ said Monday that they are…
Today, the commission to redesign the Mississippi state flag has delayed their vote for the final five flag designs until Tuesday, August 18th. Previously, the commission met on July 28th at the two Mississippi museums, the Museum of Mississippi History…
From magnolias, stars, guitars, beer cans, a light house to Elvis Presley and Kermit the Frog, state flag proposals have been pouring in. All these have been proposals submitted by the general public for a new Mississippi flag after the…
JACKSON — Today, Governor Tate Reeves announced his appointees for the Mississippi Flag Commission to redesign the new state flag: a civic leader, a tribal chief, and a business leader. Signing House Bill 1796 at a bill signing ceremony on June 30, the Mississippi Flag…
A nine person committee designing the new Mississippi state flag will meet for the first time this Wednesday. The committee consists of three members each appointed from state leaders Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, House Speaker Philip Gunn, and Governor Tate…
A local man is protesting the referendum to remove the old Mississippi state flag. He believes the vote should have been made by the people. Electrical estimator turned activist Ryan Woodcock is encouraging people to sign up as volunteers at…
A nine person committee designing the new Mississippi state flag will meet for the first time this Wednesday. The committee consists of three members each appointed from state leaders Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, House Speaker Philip Gunn, and Governor Tate…
Jackson, Miss. – Under the terms of House bill 1796, Speaker Philip Gunn has selected his appointments to the Commission to Redesign the Mississippi State Flag. Robyn Tannehill, mayor of Oxford, Mississippi. “Robyn’s background as a businessperson in the marketing…
Mississippi officials held a ceremony today to retire the former state flag, a day after Governor Tate Reeves signed a new law to remove it from the state. The new law required a ceremony for the ‘prompt, dignified, and respectful…
With the removal of the former Mississippi state flag and the demand for the removal of all Confederate monuments in Gulfport, News 25 reached out to Beauvoir. Beauvoir is the former home of the president of the Confederate States, Jefferson…
JACKSON — Tonight, Governor Tate Reeves held a ceremony to sign House Bill 1796, which retires the current Mississippi state flag and creates a commission to design a new one that will be voted on in November. Delivering brief remarks, Governor Reeves…