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I'm a Hattiesburg, Mississippi-based journalist reporting on elections, politics, and statewide legislative activity for the Jackson Free Press. I'm also the founder of the blog Deep South Voice. I graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi, where I studied journalism and political science.

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Howard Industries Employees Ordered Back to Work a Day After Massive Worksite Fire in Laurel

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By Ashton Pittman Verified
| Mississippi Free Press Verified
Howard Industries in Laurel, Mississippi, has ordered employees back to work a day after a paint booth caught fire next to a tanker truck, sending massive black smoke billowing over the city. In one video by Brandon Herford Brewer, he can be heard saying that “everybody’s gotta leave” and that he felt like “my face is melting.” All employees evacuated safely and no one was injured, officials said.
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Editor’s Note | Dolly Parton Showed Us How to Be Good

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By Ashton Pittman Verified
| Mississippi Free Press Verified
I was standing in front of my bathroom mirror getting ready for a college house party the night I heard a TV broadcaster announce that Whitney Houston had died. The death of a woman whose music had been a big part of the soundtrack to my childhood was difficult to reconcile with that voice that seemed too big for death to take.
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Southern Miss Football Stadium No Longer Named For Man Who Declared ‘I Am A Racist’

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By Ashton Pittman Verified
| Mississippi Free Press Verified
A staunch segregationist will no longer be the namesake for the University of Southern Mississippi’s football stadium after the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning approved the decision to rename M.M. Roberts Stadium to Renasant Stadium, known as “The Rock.” Malcolm Mette Roberts, a Hattiesburg attorney who once chaired IHL, once described his racism during a campus speech at USM. “But as I’ve gone along through the years and looked back, I’ve said to myself really that I am a racist.
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