ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Oct. 2 -- The National Credit Union Administration issued the following news release: * * * 1st Choice Credit Union Merges into Hope Federal Credit Union * Member Deposits Remain Protected Up to $250,000; Member Services Uninterrupted ALEXANDRIA, VA (Oct. 2, 2025) - The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) today announced that 1st Choice Credit Union of Atlanta, Georgia, has merged into Hope Federal Credit Union of Jackson, Mississippi, effective immediately.   more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, Oct. 2 [Category: ThinkTank] -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary: * * * Third grade, again: the impact of student retention policies By Josiah Padley This article is part of a series that examines Minnesota's recent early literacy education reforms and compares them to successful early literacy education reforms throughout the country. Today's focu  more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, Oct. 2 [Category: ThinkTank] -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary: * * * Ten years, two stats: Mississippi's reading gains vs. Minnesota's declines By Catrin Wigfall Mississippi's rise in reading literacy has drawn national attention -- not as a one-off success, but as evidence of sustained, systemic change that other states are now studying closely  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Oct. 2 [Category: BizEnergy] -- Entergy posted the following news release: * * * College center on wheels brings higher education hopes to Mississippi students and families * For some Mississippi students and families, the road to a college education could soon begin quite literally on the roads of their town. The Get2College Mobile Unit, a state-of-the-art college access and planning center, started rolling this month thanks to a partnership between The Woodward Hine  more

STARKVILLE, Mississippi, Oct. 3 -- Mississippi State University issued the following news: * * * Complete annotated edition of Sherman's memoirs by Mississippi State Civil War scholars published at 150th anniversary A new edition of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's memoirs has been annotated by some of the nation's leading Civil War scholars at Mississippi State University--an effort marking 150 years since the work's original publication. "The Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman--The  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, D-Mississippi, ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on Oct. 2, 2025: * * * Ranking Members Thompson, Kennedy Statement on DHS Delaying and Slashing Counterterrorism Funding for Blue States and Cities Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Tim Kennedy (D-NY), Ranking Member of the Emergency Management and Technology Subcommittee, is  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- The University and College English Language Programs Consortium, Mississippi, has submitted a public comment letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expressing strong opposition to a newly proposed rule. The rule, published on August 28, 2025, intends to establish a fixed time period of admission and an extension of stay procedure for nonimmigrant academic students, exchange visitors, and representatives of foreign information media. UCIEP argues that this propo  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: * * * Wicker Votes to Keep Government Open * WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today released the following statement. " The government shutdown has occurred because Senator Chuck Schumer is holding the funding process hostage. The continuing resolution would have allowed the government to function while we finish the appropriations process in a bipartisan way. The longer Senator Schum  more