MFP Contributor
Mississippians can now show up at a Mississippi State Department of Health vaccination site and receive the COVID-19 vaccine without previously scheduling an appointment. The last remaining barriers to vaccination for residents 12 and older end at a time when vaccinations—and new cases of COVID-19—have dwindled to new lows.
Management demanded workers return to their positions, but often part-time and during shifts with virtually no customers coming in. The industry-wide transition to curbside services left many employees working for the tipped minimum of $2.13 an hour with few tips, if any.
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking an end to its decade-long struggle with the Mississippi Department of Mental Health over inadequate community care, issuing its final plan for the ailing system last Friday.
A Hinds County judge today dismissed all charges against two of three Jackson Police Department officers charged with the second-degree murder of George Robinson in January 2019. Robinson, 62, died days after JPD officers beat him in the Washington Addition neighborhood of the capital city.
With immense public pressure—and scorn—following the decision to scrap a wildly successful ballot initiative and the entire process alongside it, it seems likely that Mississippians will have access to some form of initiative and referendum process by the end of next year. But both the reasons for the initiative’s return in the 1990s and the explanation for the Legislature’s failure to adapt the process after the state lost its fifth district remain a subject of debate.
The Mississippi Supreme Court today killed the medical-marijuana program that 68% of Mississippi voters approved in 2020, and with it, the state’s entire ballot-initiative process. The ruling means that voter-driven efforts to adopt early voting and expand Medicaid in the state are also now dead.
Adolescents aged 12 to 15 are now approved for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination, which expands access to the two-shot mRNA vaccine to more than 160,000 young Mississippians, after the Centers for Disease Control Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices formally approved the decision on Wednesday.
Mississippi is not facing a severe shortage of gasoline this week, and state leadership have unanimously called for calm and an end to panic buying after a cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline that straddles the southeastern portion of the U.S.
Mississippi will see the largest solar energy farm in the state’s history constructed near Clay and Lowndes County, a 200-megawatt farm intended to supply renewable energy to cities across the southeast, including Starkville and Knoxville, Tenn.
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