Melton: There’s more to Jackson than downtown

Among the proposals being floated by Trump allies to rein in federal costs for Medicaid are a rollback of the enhanced federal match for people in the expansion population and a move to state block grants.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court should overturn Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber theft, attorneys say in new court papers. Most of the people affected are disenfranchised for life because the state provides few options for restoring ballot…