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.
More than 170 other authors will take part in the Mississippi Book Festival, at least 90 of which will also be selling copies of their most recent works in tents along Mississippi Street and N. West Street as part of the event’s Authors Alley.Â
State senators from Jackson are asking the Mississippi Legislature for millions of dollars to help fund additional police and misdemeanor jail beds to keep those charged with low-level crimes who cannot afford bail locked up as a strategy to prevent violence as it rises in the capital city, they say. They are not asking for funds to support earlier interventions that a BOTEC Analysis study of Jackson crime recommended in 2016—which the Legislature authorized for $500,000 in taxpayer dollars. Kayode Crown reports.
Mississippi Journalism and Education Group is a a 501(c)(3) nonprofit media organization (EIN 85-1403937) for the state, devoted to going beyond partisanship and publishing solutions journalism for the Magnolia State and all of its people.
125 S. Congress Street #1324
Jackson, MSÂ 39201
info@mississippifreepress.org
tips@mississippifreepress.org
events@mississippifreepress.org
601-362-6121