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Posted inElection 2023

Fact check: Did Gov. Reeves keep Mississippi ‘open for business’ during pandemic?

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Geoff Pender and Taylor Vance September 26, 2023September 25, 2023

Fact check: Gov. Tate Reeves, who says he kept businesses open during the COVID-19, actually issued many orders restricting or directing what Mississippians and businesses could do over about a year of the pandemic.

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Marshall Ramsey: The Helper

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State-USM men’s basketball to play benefit game for Delta victims

Avatar photo by Rick Cleveland September 25, 2023September 25, 2023

Mississippi State and Southern Miss men’s basketball teams will play an exhibition game this fall, and tornado victims in the Mississippi Delta will benefit.

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IHL system put on federal monitoring after blowing deadline to submit annual audit

Avatar photo by Molly Minta September 25, 2023September 25, 2023

For the next five years, when Mississippi universities seek to cover tuition with federal financial aid dollars — everything from Pell Grants to student loans — they will be required to first provide certain documentation.

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Mississippi board approves state’s first charter high school

Avatar photo by Julia James September 25, 2023September 25, 2023

Clarksdale Collegiate Prep has been approved to open in the fall of 2025. It will be Mississippi’s first charter high school.

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Marshall Ramsey: Still There

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Experts say Gov. Tate Reeves’ plan will help hospitals, but not uninsured Mississippians

Avatar photo by Devna Bose September 25, 2023September 25, 2023

The plan is essentially a complex scheme to increase extra payments hospitals get for treating patients on Medicaid — and notably doesn’t include Medicaid expansion.

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On this day in 1961

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Debbie Skipper and Jerry Mitchell September 25, 2023September 25, 2023

On this day in 1961, Herbert Lee became the first local person killed fighting for voting rights with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

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Podcast: Did vote to change state flag lose veteran lawmaker his election?

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Bobby Harrison and Taylor Vance September 25, 2023September 25, 2023

Mississippi Today’s Bobby Harrison and Taylor Vance talked with outgoing state Rep. Nick Bain, a Republican from Corinth, on his vote to change the state flag and how he believes it played major role in his election loss last month.

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Mississippi pharmacies fall short in providing opioid-reversal drug, study shows

Avatar photo by Pam Dankins September 25, 2023September 25, 2023

More than 40% of Mississippi pharmacies do not carry naloxone, a University of Mississippi study found.

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Mississippi Stories: Stacey Trenteseaux

Avatar photo by Marshall Ramsey September 24, 2023September 23, 2023

On this episode of Mississippi Stories, editor-at-large Marshall Ramsey visits with Stacey Trenteseaux, Executive Director of Opera Mississippi and a soprano opera singer.

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Marshall Ramsey: Tate Plane

Avatar photo by Marshall Ramsey September 24, 2023September 22, 2023

Check out this week’s Marshall’s Mississippi newsletter and see a cartoon I drew about this very topic — during the Fordice/Musgrove years! Nothing is new under the sun.

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On this day in 1957

Avatar photo by Jerry Mitchell September 24, 2023September 25, 2023

On this day in 1957, nine Black students were blocked from entering Arkansas’ Central High school on the orders of Gov. Orval Faubus.

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Mississippi Medical Association has not always been out front on state’s health care issues

Avatar photo by Bobby Harrison September 24, 2023September 25, 2023

The Mississippi Medical Association, which recently endorsed Gov. Tate Reeves, has argued for something Reeves has refused: Medicaid expansion.

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On this day in 1955

Avatar photo by Jerry Mitchell September 23, 2023September 22, 2023

On this day in 1955, an all-white, all-male jury in the Mississippi Delta acquitted J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant of murdering Emmett Till.

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