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Culture  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
September 29, 2021

MS Senate Labor Committee hears from Equal Pay advocates

Mississippi is the only state in the nation without state level equal pay protections for women. Today, the Mississippi Senate Labor Committee met to hear from a panel of speakers on the importance of equal pay legislation in the state of Mississippi. The Equal Pay public hearing was organized by the Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable…
Culture  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
September 29, 2021

Hyde-Smith backs bill to give police high-tech devices to detect fentanyl, illegal drugs

POWER Act will provide portable chemical screening devices for state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement organizations.  U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith has joined in introducing bipartisan legislation, Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act (S.2853),  to help state and local law enforcement acquire high-tech devices to detect and identify dangerous drugs like fentanyl. The POWER Act…