Limiting Polling-Place Changes, Criminalizing Harmful AI: #MSLeg Roundup
Mississippi could limit last-minute polling-place changes, ban AI images intended to cause harm and more.
Mississippi could limit last-minute polling-place changes, ban AI images intended to cause harm and more.
History professor Dr. Erin Kempker responds to proposed legislation that would merge the Mississippi University for Women with Mississippi State University.
A conflict is building among Mississippi legislative leaders over whether to tweak an education funding formula or ditch it and set a new one.
Attorneys arguing that Mississippi’s state House and Senate maps are illegal racial gerrymanders are making closing arguments.
Proposals targeting transgender people and reviving a ballot initiative process are among the bills that survived a deadline.
Mississippi University for Women could be merged into Mississippi State University under a bill lawmakers will soon vote on.
Jackson Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba called renewed efforts for a state takeover of Jackson’s water system an “effort to seize control of a Black city.”
Commissioner Andy Gipson writes that the state should create diverse funding streams to invest in transportation infrastructure without raising taxes.
Mississippi lawmakers advanced bills to ban machine-gun converters, expand Medicaid, close most of the state penitentiary and outlaw sexual extortion.
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