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Larrison Campbell is a Greenville native who reports on politics with an emphasis on public health. She received a bachelor’s from Wesleyan University and a master’s from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Before becoming a journalist, Larrison worked on television shows for CBS, ABC, TBS and FX. She joined the Mississippi Today reporting team March 2016, a week before the site’s official launch. She is a 2018 National Press Foundation fellow in public health and a 2019 Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts fellow in health care reporting. She is also a member of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Report: Failure “creates blind spots that impair MDCPS management’s ability to lead the department and ensure the safety, well-being and permanency of children consistent with (its agreement).”
The Justice Department says Mississippi needs to develop a plan and stick to it, but the attorney for the state wants to know how much more community-based service does the state need to provide to satisfy the law?
“Most of all he remembered he was there to serve and not to be served. And he did all of this with grace, character, honor and class,” said Speaker Philip Gunn.
The long-awaited trial over Mississippi’s care for citizens with mental illness starts this week
The last years of Cochran’s tenure were marked by his chairmanship of the powerful U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee and, later, by declining health
The disparity exists despite the fact that the CDC reports black and white women get breast cancer at about the same rate.
“These actions are unacceptable for anyone,” says House speaker.
The state’s new default license plate, which bears the inscription “In God We Trust,” could be the subject of a federal lawsuit. Now Mississippi leaders must decide whether to come up with a different design or fight it out in the courts.
After the governor balked on a Medicaid proposal he requested last fall, the state hospital association reformulated the plan that could insure hundreds of thousands more Mississippians
The sixth time’s the charm for Snackbar chef, who beat out several well-known Southern chefs
Holland talks his political past, future
Andy Taggart, a lawyer and Republican vying to be Mississippi’s next top cop, is among the few Republicans who have called for a new state flag to replace the current banner, which features a Confederate emblem. He calls the use of blackface offensive and inappropriate.
Despite their opposition, many lawmakers worried that killing funding for the scholarships would kill the bill, while others said it was matter of trust.
Challenge to state’s “heartbeat law” was expected and will likely be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Opponents of the six-week ban plan to file a federal lawsuit over the constitutionality of the bill signed into law Thursday