Editor’s Note | MFP Team Hits the New Year Running
Mississippi elections end, national elections begin. We’re used to the endless campaign seasons here in Mississippi, and 2024 will be no different.
FOCUS: Medicaid Expansion • Pauper’s Field Burials • State Legislature • National News • Fact Checks • #MSWelfare/TANF Scandal • Jackson Water • Race & Racism
Mississippi elections end, national elections begin. We’re used to the endless campaign seasons here in Mississippi, and 2024 will be no different.
Officials evacuated government buildings in Mississippi and several other states following a second day of bomb threats.
Legislators are back at work in the Mississippi Capitol Building after a bomb threat resulted in a lockdown on Wednesday morning—the second day of the 2024 legislative session. Nationwide, seven state capitols locked down this morning in response to threats.
Mississippi House Republicans have nominated Rep. Jason White, R-West, to serve as the new House speaker in the 2024 legislative session. He has expressed an
Mississippi House Rep. Nick Bain, the Republican who authored Mississippi’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors this year, has conceded after gun store owner Brad Mattox defeated him in the Republican primary for House District 2 in Alcorn County by just 26 votes.
UMMC is shutting down the TEAM Clinic on June 30 after lawmakers criticized it for providing gender-affirming care to its patients in a recent Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review report.
A coalition of voting rights groups is now asking a federal court to block Senate Bill 2358 on behalf of the three Okolona residents along with Disability Rights Mississippi and the League of Women Voters of Mississippi.
Future rape victims in Mississippi can have more confidence that the State will process their rape test kits in a timely manner after Gov. Tate Reeves signed House Bill 485 into law on April 17, but much work remains to be done, Ilse Knecht told the Mississippi Free Press.
The NAACP is suing to stop two new laws designed to give the State of Mississippi more control over the City of Jackson and alleging they amount to race-based discrimination in a 52-page lawsuit the organization filed in federal court Saturday.
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