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News  |  Frank Corder  • 
August 3, 2020

Mississippi Democrats don’t make the cut on Obama’s first slate of 2020 endorsements

Former President Barack Obama issued his first list of endorsements for the 2020 election cycle today which included 118 candidates in 17 states, but none of them included any Democrat seeking the U.S. Senate or U.S. House from Mississippi. Not Congressman Bennie Thompson. Not Mike Espy for U.S. Senate. Not Antonia Eliason for the 1st…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
August 3, 2020

Hyde-Smith welcomes $14 million in rural water improvements in Alcorn, Pontotoc Counties

U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), a member of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, today welcomed the award of $14.1 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture grant and loan funding for water infrastructure improvements in Alcorn and Pontotoc counties. USDA Rural Development Water and Waste Disposal Loan and Grant Program loan-grant awards are going to the…