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Anne Summerhays
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August 23, 2021
Mississippi among Republican-led states seeing more jobs, lower unemployment
Mississippi ranks 10th in nation in the percent of jobs recovered from the pandemic losses. Newly released data for July from the Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms that Republican Governors are leading the way in getting Americans back to work. Jobs are rising and unemployment is lower in states with Republican Governors and Republican majority…
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Anne Summerhays
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August 23, 2021
Spectra Laboratories opens new facility in Southaven, Mississippi
Facility will create more than 300 jobs in the next couple of years. Fresenius Medical Care’s Spectra Laboratories announced last Thursday that it has opened a new laboratory services facility in Southaven, Mississippi. Plans for the facility were announced two years ago by Spectra Laboratories, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fresenius Medical Care North America…
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Anne Summerhays
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August 20, 2021
Dobbs issues COVID isolation order for positive cases in Mississippi
Updated Public Health Order establishes isolation criteria to be followed if exposed to COVID-19. As of today, Friday, August 20, 2021, Dr. Thomas Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi State Department of Health, issued a statewide Order for the Isolation of Individuals Diagnosed with COVID-19. This comes after the MSDH reported today 5,048 more…
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Sarah Ulmer
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August 20, 2021
Revenue reports are up for first month of the 2022 fiscal year
Revenue reports for the first month of the FY2022 year are up over sine die estimates. Total revenue collections for the month of July FY 2022 and Fiscal YTD 2022 through July are $53,326,905 or 11.11% above the sine die revenue estimate. Fiscal YTD total revenue collections through July 2021 are $-6,355,436 or – 1.18%…
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Sarah Ulmer
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August 20, 2021
Guest announces additional grants to revitalize rural airports
Congressman Guest says more rural airports will receive federal assistance. On Friday, Congressman Guest celebrated the announcement of two Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (AIP) discretionary grants. Today, Congressman Guest applauded the announcement of two Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (AIP) discretionary grants. The funds will go toward the Brookhaven-Lincoln County…
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Sarah Ulmer
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August 19, 2021
Reeves holds press conference on state’s response to COVID-19
Governor Reeves, Dr. Dobbs, and Executive Director McCraney will provide an update on Mississippi’s response to COVID-19. Governor Reeves addressed the current state of the pandemic in Mississippi and what officials and hospitals are doing to combat the reality of the skyrocketing numbers. During last weeks press conference, Reeves was asked seven times why he…
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Anne Summerhays
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August 19, 2021
Mississippi State Board of Education allows hybrid scheduling during COVID-19 surge
The hybrid scheduling option is available immediately and will extend through October 31, 2021. The SBE consulted with the Mississippi Department of Health in order to make the decision. Though now the hybrid scheduling option is extended through October 31, 2021, the SBE will consider extending it beyond November 1 at its October meeting. Hybrid…
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Anne Summerhays
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August 19, 2021
Wicker, Hyde-Smith encourage Miss. students to apply for U.S. Senate Youth Program
Two high school students from Mississippi will be selected for the 2022 program. The Mississippi senators encouraged high school juniors and seniors in Mississippi to apply to represent the state at the 60th annual United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP) Washington Week. The USSYP was established in 1962 by U.S. Senate Resolution. It provides a unique…
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Sarah Ulmer
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August 19, 2021
Petitions for Mississippi Early Voting Initiative move forward
Team behind the Mississippi Early Voting ballot initiative will move forward as petitions circulate. Since the decision by the Mississippi Supreme Court to overrule the validity of Initiative 65, therefore calling into question Mississippi’s entire initiative process, several future ballot initiatives have been put on hold. Petitions to place the Mississippi Early Voting Initiative #78…
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Sarah Ulmer
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August 19, 2021
MSDH reports over 20,000 students quarantined in Mississippi’s K-12 schools
The Mississippi Department of Health is reporting over 20,000 students in Mississippi’s K-12 schools who are quarantined after exposure to COVID-19 With schools having been open just a few weeks or days for some, the MSDH says they have 4,500 documented cases of covid among students spanning across 803 schools in the state. This number…
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Sarah Ulmer
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August 19, 2021
Mississippi Lottery starts off a new fiscal year of transfers at $8.8 million
The Mississippi Lottery Corperation has announced its first transfer to the state budget for the FY 2022 year. In July they transferred $8,846,238.86 in net proceeds to the Lottery Proceeds Fund in the Mississippi State Treasury. This is the first deposit for Fiscal Year 2022, which began July 1, 2021. RELATED: MS Lottery transfers over $138…
Culture
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Sarah Ulmer
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August 19, 2021
AG Fitch announces sentencing in $4-Million Medicaid Fraud case
Attorney General Lyn Fitch announced the sentencing of an individual involved in Medicaid fraud. On Tuesday a Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Faye Peterson, sentenced Regina Thomas owner of the former Total Healthcare Network, Inc., on five counts of Medicaid Fraud. The total amount of fraud came to $4,091,208.09 in over-billing and billing for services…
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Frank Corder
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June 13, 2025
Nearly 280 from Mississippi National Guard deployed to D.C. in support of Saturday’s military parade
News
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Christina A. Cassidy, Associated Press
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June 13, 2025
Judge blocks Trump’s election executive order, siding with Democrats who called it overreach
News
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Jeremy Pittari
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June 13, 2025
Mississippi Medicaid appropriation increases by $58 million for new fiscal year, state support nears $1 billion
Business
Business
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Paul Wiseman, Associated Press
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June 6, 2025
Hiring in the US slows, though employers still added a solid 139,000 jobs in May
Business
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Frank Corder
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May 19, 2025
Modine expanding data center cooling equipment manufacturing in Grenada County
Business
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Lynne Jeter
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May 19, 2025
Goldman Sachs honors inaugural Mississippi small business graduating class
Culture
Culture
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Laura Lee Leathers
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June 13, 2025
Roses and ramblings
Culture
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C.H. Spurgeon
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June 13, 2025
Weep for His pain
Culture
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Richelle Putnam
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June 12, 2025
Serving fresh, supporting local: Inside Vicksburg’s Tomato Place
Opinion
Opinion
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Lesley Davis
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June 12, 2025
A victory for sorority sisters: The DOE affirmed what every 18-year-old pledge already knew
Opinion
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Russ Latino
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June 11, 2025
Gipson in for Governor. What’s the state of play for 2027?
Opinion
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Josh Riggs
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June 11, 2025
Mississippi’s education success isn’t a miracle
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