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Election officials are busily trying to recruit younger volunteers to staff the United States’ roughly 230,000 polling sites on Election Day in November. Many of the nation’s poll workers are reluctant to work during the pandemic because they are, overwhelmingly, older and at high risk of severe COVID-19 infection.
Four new lawmakers are joining the Mississippi Legislature after voters in two House districts and two Senate districts voted in special elections to fill the vacant seats on Thursday. Though the candidates appeared on the ballot with no party identification because state special elections are non-partisan, they did share their party allegiance on the campaign trail.Â
Four in 10 residents was the average number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in those for-profit long-term-care facilities. One possible factor: The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration had already cited 80% of Mississippi’s nursing homes for infection-control problems before the pandemic hit.
As we analyze the latest data from the COVID-19 pandemic, a more complete picture on infections, hospitalizations and death rates has emerged, along with new conversations about health disparities.
Dr. Pete Smith, a journalism professor at Mississippi State University, recalls sitting next to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at a dinner in Washington, D.C.
Mississippians with medical conditions that cause higher risk for COVID-19 infection and death are suing the State of Mississippi over stringent rules that block them from voting absentee.
Less than a week into the fall semester that began on Monday, Aug. 17, Mississippi State University has already begun moving COVID-19 positive students out of their dorms and into two local hotels in Starkville due to the coronavirus.
Mississippi State University’s campus honors two prominent Confederate leaders, Stephen D. Lee and James Z. George, who helped keep Black Mississippians from voting and students of all races studying revisionist, false history about the Confederacy for generations. Is it time to confront those symbols?
Mississippi universities are working on some innovative solutions to challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19, including low-cost ventilators, 3-D printed masks and more.
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