Medicaid Expansion Compromise Plan With No Guarantee of Expanded Care Will Get A Vote
A Medicaid expansion plan that may not expand care to working Mississippians without a federal waiver will get a vote.
A Medicaid expansion plan that may not expand care to working Mississippians without a federal waiver will get a vote.
The fate of health care for thousands of Mississippians could depend on former President Donald Trump winning November’s presidential election despite dozens of felony charges under a Medicaid expansion compromise proposal that state senators offered on Friday morning.
Top Mississippi lawmakers started negotiating Tuesday on what could become a landmark plan to expand Medicaid coverage.
Civil rights advocates say Mississippi needs to simplify the process of restoring voting rights to people convicted of some felonies.
A Mississippi House leader says he won’t move forward with a bill to allow a casino in the capital city of Jackson.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Shuwaski Young is calling for his own state representative to resign after a grand jury indicted Rep. Keith Jackson.
All registered Mississippi voters could be able to cast a ballot up to 15 days before an election under an early-voting bill the House passed.
Republican lawmakers who are trying to protect in-vitro fertilization treatments risk legalizing “back-door abortion,” a state official claims.
Mississippi could limit last-minute polling-place changes, ban AI images intended to cause harm and more.
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