Hyde-Smith: Bus tour ‘more beneficial’ than debate against McDaniel, Espy
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Hyde-Smith on video circulated by McDaniel’s campaign: She “knew good and well they were taping me.”
Fact check: McDaniel’s claim that women fake ’99 percent’ of sexual assault claims
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Recent academic studies shed light on the conservative firebrand’s controversial claim
‘He just took off’: Parents tout benefits of troubled First Steps program, call for more funding
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A state program for kids with disabilities can produce amazing results — if properly funded
Trump’s tariffs could ‘devastate’ them, but farmers and contractors still back Hyde-Smith
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Concern over the impact of tariffs on personal finances has not translated into concern for the senator’s candidacy — or for President Trump’s policies
‘What did I do to my child?’: As program for kids with disabilities suffers funding shortage, parents face hard decisions
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The roots of problems in Mississippi’s early intervention program go much deeper than previously reported contract delays
In a surprise move, Health Department chief announces retirement
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Dr. Mary Currier has been described as a steadying force “as the public health arena has dramatically changed in the last several years”
Mississippi adult day care facilities violating state law, feds say
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Report: State’s own yearly inspections of adult day care facilities “(failed) to ensure a continuously safe and nonhazardous environment.”
Government
Key report confirms Mississippi losing millennials faster than any other state
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Tradition report: Mississippi is losing people at the age when they would be entering their prime earning years, while other states are gaining them
‘Varina’ asks if the First Lady of the Confederacy can be woke
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The novel is Charles Frazier’s fourth, his second about the Civil War after his critically acclaimed 1997 debut, Cold Mountain
Grenada County to pay $1.1 million to settle fraud charge
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Settlement resolves claims that the former Grenada Lakes Medical Center and one of its providers submitted claims for therapies that were neither reasonable or necessary.
Politics
Fact check: Gov. Phil Bryant’s Neshoba County Fair speech
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Mississippi Today researched and provided context for several of the governor’s statements about health care, jobs and the economy
Medical marijuana campaign puts conservative backers in a ‘strange position’
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Four Republican lawmakers, the president of a Christian magazine and the heads of two influential conservative policy groups are among those who support the effort
Hundreds of Mississippi kids without therapies amid state contract delay
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New contracts with therapists for children under three who’ve been diagnosed with disabilities and developmental delays should have taken effect July 1.
Mississippi lags in developmental screenings for kids
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A $10.5 million federal grant geared towards improving early childhood health in Mississippi could help reverse that finding.
Lawsuit alleges gerrymandered state district dilutes black vote
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Three African American men in the Delta filed a federal lawsuit accusing the state of gerrymandering one of its districts in direct violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Civil Rights attorneys argue in the lawsuit that the boundaries of Senate District 22, which is located primarily in the Mississippi Delta, intentionally dilute African-American voting strength in the area. And they’ve asked U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves to order state officials to redraw the district before statewide elections in 2019. “There will be a lot of focus on redistricting when election lines everywhere are redrawn after the 2020 census,” said Jackson civil rights attorney Rob McDuff, who is working with the Mississippi Center for Justice on the lawsuit. “But because there is a problem with District 22 that needs to be cured before the census and before the 2019 election, we are bringing this case now.”
The defendants are Gov. Phil Bryant, Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, and Attorney General Jim Hood. Senate District 22, which has been held by Buck Clarke, R-Hollandale, since 2004, covers six counties in the Delta and central Mississippi.