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Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
February 12, 2019

First Responders Push Bill to Help Cover Costs of On-the-Job Illnesses

Mississippi One of Three States Without A Law to Help Save First Responder Lives First responders across Mississippi hope to have a bill passed into law that would cover medical costs resulting from specific job-related illnesses for volunteer firefighters, career firefighters, and all Mississippi law enforcement. Senate Bill 2835, known as the First Responders Health…
Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
February 6, 2019

SALTER: Medical marijuana unlikely to advance in 2019, but 2020 effort could get legs

By: Sid Salter Almost 40 years of covering Mississippi government and politics suggests to me that an election year isn’t the best time to enact something as controversial as legalizing medical marijuana. To be sure, medical marijuana is already legal in Mississippi in the narrowest of senses and has been since 2014. Legal, yes. Available?…