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Editorial Roundup: Mississippi
Tupelo Daily Journal. May 3, 2023. Editorial: Medicaid expansion is popular among voters. Who knew? A recent poll told us what most people already knew and only a handful of state leaders truly fear: Expanding Medicaid to help bolster Mississippi’s suffering health...
Editorial Roundup: Mississippi
Columbus Dispatch. April 5, 2023. Editorial: Fundraising achievements point to healthy MUW In the fall of 2016, Mississippi University for Women dipped its toe in new water, metaphorically-speaking. Never in the university’s then-132 year history had...
Mississippi initiative proposal, minus abortion, in limbo
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Senate leaders are not saying whether they will support a new initiative process that would allow voters to put proposed state laws — but nothing dealing with abortion — on the ballot. Senators face a Thursday deadline. They could accept a...
Only 1 Black rep gets role in talks on Mississippi policing
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — One Black lawmaker and nine white ones have been chosen to negotiate final versions of bills that could expand the territory of a state-run police department inside Mississippi's majority-Black capital city. Critics say the bills are a way for the...
