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April 28, 2016

SALTER: Mississippi not likely to change restrictions on felons voting anytime soon

Sid Salter: Ex-cons in state unlikely to gain voting rights Estimates of Mississippi’s disenfranchised felons are as high as 182,000, and it is believed that 60 percent of that total is comprised of African-Americans. Mississippi is one of 11 states (Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, Nevada, Tennessee and Wyoming) that most pervasively restrict…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
April 28, 2016

Wicker, Reed Lead Call for Improved Data on Child Participation in NIH Clinical Health Trials

RELEASE: Wicker, Reed Lead Call for Improved Data on Child Participation in NIH Clinical Health Trials 26 U.S. Senators urge NIH to improve data collection on children participating in clinical health trials WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Jack Reed, D-R.I., today sent a letter with 24 of their Senate colleagues urging the…