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FOCUS: H.B. 1020 • 2023 Elections • Voting • Fact Checks • #MSWelfare/TANF Scandal • Jackson Water • Abortion • Race & Racism

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New U.S. Attorney Todd Gee to Helm Mississippi Welfare Investigation After Senate Vote

A new leader will helm the federal investigation into Mississippi’s $77-million welfare scandal after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Todd Gee as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi on Friday, Sept. 29.

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Ashton Pittman October 3, 2023
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As More Hospitals Fail, Presley Blames Reeves For Not Expanding Medicaid

The latest round of hospital closures and cuts suggest Mississippi’s health care “system is burning to the ground” while Gov. Tate Reeves rejects Medicaid expansion, Democratic candidate for governor Brandon Presley says.

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Heather Harrison July 18, 2023
Entergy Mississippi President & CEO Haley Fisackerly
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Power Outages ‘Not Seen Since Hurricane Katrina’ Hit Mississippi After Deadly Storms

More than 138,000 Mississippi residents lost power amid temperatures as high as the 90s since the arrival of severe thunderstorms last Friday, and thousands remained without power as storms continued to pummel the state this morning.

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Ashton Pittman June 19, 2023
Executive Director of the Hinds County Development Authority Tamika Jenkins in a blue suit (Entergy)
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Mississippi Communities Receive Entergy Grants To Boost Competitiveness

Entergy Mississippi gave $60,000 in grants to eight Mississippi communities for marketing, strategic planning and site work.

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Heather Harrison June 15, 2023
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Culture

Person of the Day | Myrlie Evers-Williams, ‘Civil-Rights Activist, Risk-taker, Mother, True Believer’

Medgar and Myrlie Evers both dedicated their lives to fighting, as he put it, “until every vestige of segregation and discrimination in America becomes annihilated.”

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Torsheta Jackson June 13, 2023
The Emancipation and Freedom Monument
Culture

Mississippi-Born Sculptor Memorializes African American Union Troops in Natchez

The Natchez U.S. Colored Troops Monument Project voted unanimously to commission Jay Warren to design a monument to the thousands of U.S. Colored Troops from Natchez. 

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Virginia Sciolino May 15, 2023
Mental health worker Kimberly Harris attended the criminal record expungement clinic
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Advocates Push For Automated Criminal-Record Expungement in Mississippi

R.C. Anderson, 65, went to prison more than 40 years ago after he drove his car to a house his friends burglarized in Madison County. He did not learn of the legal provision to erase the crime from his records until recently.

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Kayode Crown December 15, 2022
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Jackson Water Crisis: SBA Office for Business Disaster Loans Open Until Oct. 1

U.S. Small Business Administration Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman said in a Sept. 15, 2022, press release that the federal disaster loans available for businesses in and around Hinds County that the Jackson water crisis has affected will help the “communities recover and rebuild.”

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Kayode Crown September 21, 2022
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Jackson Businesses Now Eligible For Up to $2 Million in Federal Disaster Loans

Jackson businesses that have suffered losses amid the Mississippi capital city’s ongoing water crisis will be able to apply for as much as $2 million in federal Economic Injury Disaster loans, Gov. Tate Reeves announced Wednesday. 

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Ashton Pittman September 15, 2022
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