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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.
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.
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
Bill that would be the most restrictive in the U.S. would ban abortions as early as six weeks. Similar legislation is currently planned in more than half a dozen other states, including Tennessee, Ohio and Georgia.
Previous ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves found that Senate District 22 as drawn diluted the power of the black vote. The Fifth Circuit also extended the filing deadline for candidates to April 12.
Wicker, one of 12 Republican senators who joined Democrats on the bipartisan vote, said he supports the president’s plan to build a wall along the southern border. But he said he is “concerned about the precedent an emergency declaration sets.”
Many African American women, who bear the brunt of Mississippi’s highest in the nation rates of incarceration, poverty, low wages, and infant and maternal mortality, say their votes are often taken for granted.
New study finds that 31 of Mississippi’s 64 rural hospitals face “high financial risk,” a combination of poor profits, high debt and low cash reserves.
Guest, part of the biggest class of newcomers since 1933, says there are issues that aren’t highly partisan, police body cameras, military funding, agriculture and rural hospitals, where Democrats and Republicans can work together.
African American plaintiffs in the case said the Legislature drew the maps to dilute black voting strength
The House defied the wishes of a key committee chairwoman to send the bill to the Senate
The Warren County native say it’s a political act to record voices that history might forget
Heated debate raised issues of race, women’s rights, and fiscal responsibility. Now, the full House and Senate will vote on the measures.
New executive director of the Mississippi State Medical Association replaces Charmaine Kanosky overseeing the powerful lobbying organization for physicians.
Sen. Chad McMahan, R-Guntown, sponsored the measure in hopes of bringing some relief to county coroners