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📢 Hey, Mississippi: We'd like the public's review of three draft transportation plans! 👉 MDOT and three of our state’s Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs)' draft Mississippi Unified Long-Range Transportation Infrastructure Plan 2050 (MULTIPLAN 2050) 👉 MDOT’s draft Public Participation Process and Plan 2026 (PPP 2026) 👉 MDOT’s draft Local Consultation Process and Plan 2026 (LCP 2026) Visit GoMDOT.com/Multiplan2050 for all of its details, comment links, and public meeting dates. For the

GPS Pioneer Dr. Gladys West Dies at 95 Dr. Gladys West, the brilliant mathematician whose groundbreaking work made modern GPS technology possible, died January 17, 2026, at age 95. Born on a Virginia tobacco farm in 1930 during Jim Crow segregation, West became valedictorian, earned mathematics degrees, and in 1956 became the second Black woman hired at the Naval Surface Warfare Center. For 42 years, she developed complex algorithms using the IBM 7030 supercomputer to create precise geodetic mod