Haggling Over Competing Medicaid Expansion Plans Jeopardizes Effort as Session Nears End
Top Mississippi lawmakers started negotiating Tuesday on what could become a landmark plan to expand Medicaid coverage.
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.
The Republican-led Mississippi House held hearings to consider Medicaid expansion for the first time since it became an option over a decade ago.
Online sports betting could become legal in Mississippi after a bill advanced in the Legislature as consumer demand fuels a black market.
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