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Pumpkin spice lattes are back
By SUSAN MARQUEZ - MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE
Sun,09/20/26-11:58AM , 573 Reads 6,528 Statewide
Nothing can beat enjoying a good cup of coffee with friends in a coffee shop, and there are many locally-owned coffee shops around Mississippi where you can get your fall brew fix.
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Hitachi Energy brings largest U.S. investment to date to Mississippi
By FRANK CORDER - MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE
Sun,09/20/26-10:24AM , 623 Reads 5,555 Statewide
The $528 million expansion project in Copiah County will increase the company’s production capacity and expand the range of small power transformers manufactured domestically, while creating over 650 jobs.
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The AI wars (or race to the bottom) is hurting Normal Americans everyday. All Nations globally need to ban the Chat GPT and other LLM AI generative AI apps.
By JOHN EMMERICH
Wed,09/23/26-2:08PM , 196 Reads 1,456 Statewide
China's government is sounding the alarms on the AI apps as being a "Threat to the Existence of the Chinese Government."

This raises huge alarm bells for the existence of AI apps. China views the apps using AI LLM Generative-Artificial-Intelligence as being an existential risk to humanity.

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General Atomics announced second expansion this year, bringing 125 more jobs to Shannon
By FRANK CORDER - MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE
Sun,09/20/26-10:54AM , 167 Reads 2,310 Statewide
The latest expansion project includes the construction of a new 200,000-square-foot manufacturing facility that will expand production capabilities for the company’s advanced weapons systems.
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