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Culture  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
August 3, 2022

Biden Admin. launches USDA-EPA partnership to provide wastewater sanitation to underserved communities

Mississippi’s Bolivar County will be among the participants in this pilot program. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the Closing America’s Wastewater Access Gap Community Initiative. Through this initiative from the Biden Administration, the USDA and EPA will leverage technical assistance resources to help historically…
Culture  |  Guest Editorial  • 
August 3, 2022

SALTER: Air conditioning state prisons is a measure of both basic humanity and business acumen

By: Sid Salter Those who are like me old enough to remember life before air conditioning in the Deep South often flinch a bit when passionate, well-meaning young prison reformers launch into a lecture about the cruelties of operating state prisons without the benefit of that comfort. Air conditioning on a national scale in the…