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May 18, 2015

Wicker, Thompson compete for naming courthouse

Miss. lawmakers back competing bills to name courthouse A competition is brewing again in Congress over what to name the federal courthouse in Jackson. The House voted April 28 to pass a bill by Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson to name the courthouse on East Court Street after the late civil rights attorney R. Jess Brown.…
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May 18, 2015

Palazzo raising dyslexia awareness

Mississippi lawmaker pushes for dyslexia awareness Rep. Steven Palazzo and his wife, Lisa, recognized about three years ago that their youngest son, Bennett, was struggling with reading so they hired tutors, but nothing seemed to work. They had the fourth-grader tested recently and learned he had dyslexia, a learning disability that involves difficulty learning to…