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News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 13, 2022

IRS head to visit highly audited Mississippi Delta as guest of Congressman Thompson

The core of Thompson’s district is one of the most heavily audited areas in the United States, according to a 2019 Propublica piece. The head of the Internal Revenue Service, Charles Retting, will visit the Mississippi Delta this week as a guest of Congressman Bennie Thompson, according to a report in the Yazoo Herald. The…
News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
September 13, 2022

Speaker appoints bipartisan Commission on Life in Mississippi House of Representatives

The Speaker’s Commission on Life will work toward presenting legislation that supports mothers and babies before and after birth. The Dobbs ruling this summer by the U.S. Supreme Court turned the issue of abortion regulation back over to the individual states when it overturned Roe v. Wade.  Mississippi was one of the states where legislation…