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Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said Mayor Kane Ditto, the capital city’s last white mayor, was also the last leader on Jackson’s infrastructure. Former Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. begged to differ. “I don’t know what the impetus is behind all of this misinformation,” Johnson said. “I hope it’s not demographics.”
Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann first addressed House Speaker Philip Gunn’s comprehensive tax-cut bill with a spoonful of sugar at the Stennis Press Forum today, praising the speaker, a Clinton Republican.
After that, it was all medicine.
The Canton Sanitary Landfill may expand eastward toward residential areas in the city, after the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality unanimously approved a variance for
Cathryn Warren is a special-education teacher in Lamar County who specializes in behavior modification. She has been back in the classroom since August of last
As Mississippi recovers from the worst winter storm since the mid-1990s, Northern District Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley is calling for a re-evaluation of Mississippi’s membership in its regional transmission organization, which manages the transmission, sale and conservation of power across multiple states.
The Mississippi State Department of Health has detected the first confirmed case of a dangerous, much more infectious variant of COVID-19, indicating that the state has limited time before it becomes the dominant strain in the region.
Mississippi’s trans youth may find themselves barred from school sports if the Mississippi House of Representatives confirms a Senate bill, passed in the waning hours of last week’s legislative deadline, that targets trans children, especially trans girls. Both chambers saw similar bills to limit trans rights this session.
The anti-trans bill passed the Senate in the long hours of a Thursday session extended into early Friday morning. A contentious battle over a parallel marijuana program—an alternative to 2020’s successful ballot initiative 65—derailed regular floor debate until late at night.
Dr. Anthony Fauci joined state public-health leadership at Tougaloo College today to address America’s history of medical racism and the barriers to equitable COVID-19 vaccine distribution. The medical experts spoke in turn over Zoom, with Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases and top coronavirus adviser to President Joe Biden, leading the event with a candid commentary on the medical establishment’s historical treatment of Black Americans.
Medicaid expansion for 300,000 Mississippians died, but a key provision extending postpartum Medicaid coverage for pregnant Mississippians survived. If S.B. 2799 passes the House and the governor’s desk, Mississippians will qualify for Medicaid for a full year after the end of their pregnancies, up from a mere 60 days of coverage currently.
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