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Culture  |  Frank Corder  • 
May 9, 2022

Abortion in Mississippi to be outlawed if SCOTUS overturns Roe – thanks to 2007 majority Democrat Legislature

What happens in Mississippi if Roe is overturned and how we got here. Following the 2003 statewide election, the Mississippi Democratic Party held majorities in both the state House and Senate.  In fact, Democrats in the Mississippi House enjoyed a supermajority.  Haley Barbour, a Republican, was Governor and Amy Tuck, also a Republican, was Lieutenant…
Culture  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
May 9, 2022

Miss. delegation requests federal disaster declaration for March storms

Mississippi experienced 27 tornadoes across four counties on March 22, 2022 and 30 tornados across eight counties on March 30, 2022. Last week, U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-MS), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), along with U.S. Representatives Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Steven Palazzo (R-MS), Trent Kelly (R-MS), and Michael Guest (R-MS), requested that President Joe Biden approve Mississippi…