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Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
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…
Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
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…