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Sarah Ulmer
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January 17, 2019
Congressman Michael Guest taking a stand for the unborn in D.C.
Yesterday, Congressman Michael Guest (MS-03) Cosponsored H.R. 616 – The Life at Conception Act of 2019. This legislation would ensure that the unborn are entitled to legal protections by declaring that life begins at conception. This week he also signed a letter to President Trump encouraging him to veto any bill that would weaken existing pro-life…
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Sarah Ulmer
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January 17, 2019
Wicker, Hyde-Smith Sponsor Legislation to Protect Medicaid from Funding Health Care for Illegal Immigrants
Proposal Would Prevent States from Using Federal Resources to Expand Medicaid Benefits to Unauthorized Immigrants U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., today helped introduce S. 131, the “Protect Medicaid Act,” which would prevent states from using federal resources to expand Medicaid services to illegal immigrants. The legislation is sponsored by Senator Bill…
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Sarah Ulmer
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January 17, 2019
Congressman Michael Guest Joins Pro-Life Caucus
Yesterday, Congressman Michael Guest (MS-03) joined the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, a bipartisan organization of House Members that works with pro-life grassroots organizations to promote life-affirming policies and to defend against pro-abortion policies. This announcement comes one day before the March for Life, an event advocating pro-life legislation in Washington, D.C. “By joining the Congressional Pro-Life…
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Sarah Ulmer
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January 17, 2019
Mississippi Center for Public Policy offers new way to review legislative bills
The Mississippi Center for Public Policy created a way to follow some of the larger bills of the session as well as read commentary they provide on individual measures from the House and Senate. The website, www.mspolicyvotes.org allows you to follow along with the House and Senate calendars and bills in committee. What is the commentary…
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Courtney Ingle
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January 17, 2019
Mississippi Receives C on Chance-For-Success Index, Ranks 46th in Nation
The annual Education Week Quality Counts report gave Mississippi a C in the Chance-for-Success category and ranked the state 46th in the nation. The average state earned a C-plus. Today’s report, the first of three Quality Counts installments being rolled out in 2019, features the Education Week Research Center’s Chance-for-Success Index, first launched in 2007. In 2013, Mississippi received a…
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Sarah Ulmer
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January 17, 2019
No more electric and hybrid car tax #billoftheday
Remember last year, when legislators passed the Mississippi Infrastructure Modernization Act during Special Session? One of the small clauses within the bill was a new tax on hybrid and electric cars. The reasoning, that they don’t pay as much in gas taxes as other vehicles, so they should pay a little extra into county taxes.…
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Magnolia Tribune
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January 17, 2019
YP Daily Roundup 1/17/19
WTOK – Wicker eyes expanding rural broadband WXXV – Pascagoula Mayor running for Southern District Public Commissioner This morning, a large group of people gathered outside of the Jackson County Courthouse to hear Pascagoula Mayor Dane Maxwell make a big announcement. Mayor Maxwell announced his candidacy for the Southern District Public commissioner. The mayor has…
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Courtney Ingle
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January 16, 2019
Maxwell announces run for Southern District Public Service Commissioner
Today, on the steps of the Jackson County Courthouse, Pascagoula Mayor Dane Maxwell announced he is running for Southern District Public Service Commissioner. Though there has not been an official announcement, it’s now widely expected that Current Southern District Commissioner Sam Britton is not seeking re-election and will vie for State Treasurer this year. Notably,…
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Sarah Ulmer
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January 16, 2019
Op-Ed: Electric Co-ops & Lord Snow Fight Member Refunds
Are electric power associations overcharging their members? Tis the question asked in a war waged in court between several Mississippi electric cooperatives and their members. The members keep winning but the electric power associations keep appealing. According to the Jackson Jambalaya, Ms. Butler alleged Coast EPA had $158,181,000 in accumulated capital. She claims this patronage…
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Sarah Ulmer
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January 16, 2019
Protecting girls and women from mutilation #billoftheday
This bill of the day hits on a more serious note and causes a real threat to the health and wellbeing of Mississippi’s women. Senate Bill 2022, authored by Senator Angela Hill would prohibit the mutilation of the genitals of girls and young women, require providers to report any indication of the abuse and provide…
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Sarah Ulmer
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January 16, 2019
Sanderson Farms Championship receives stand-alone date on PGA tour schedule
Mississippi’s largest professional sporting event to be played September 16-22, 2019 At a press conference held Tuesday at The Country Club of Jackson, the PGA TOUR, Century Club Charities and title sponsor Sanderson Farms, led by CEO and Chairman of the Board Joe Sanderson, Jr., announced that the Sanderson Farms Championship will have a…
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Sarah Ulmer
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January 16, 2019
SALTER: History salvaged: Book preserves state’s reaction to ‘integrate at once’ court order
By: Sid Salter School desegregation in Mississippi was a tough, messy and often a very dangerous business. None knew those truths better than the white and black Mississippi school superintendents, principals, classroom teachers, coaches and students who were charged a half-century ago with catching the judicial hot potato known as Alexander v. Holmes County Board…
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Frank Corder
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May 2, 2025
Maxwell appointed USDA State Director by President Trump
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Frank Corder
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May 2, 2025
Senator Wicker on Trump’s budget request: President’s advisors “were apparently not listening”
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Frank Corder
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May 2, 2025
Ole Miss pulls support of Oxford Pride Parade citing new DEI law
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Frank Corder
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April 23, 2025
Amazon locating inbound cross dock operations in Marshall County, creating 1,000 jobs
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Lynne Jeter
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April 17, 2025
GE Aerospace moving at warp speed in Batesville
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Lynne Jeter
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April 15, 2025
ABB doubling size of operations in Tate County
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C.H. Spurgeon
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May 2, 2025
He promises you
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Susan Marquez
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May 1, 2025
What’s Happening, Mississippi? Things to do in the Magnolia State in May 2025
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C.H. Spurgeon
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May 1, 2025
The mighty one
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Sid Salter
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April 30, 2025
Is a new era in federal natural disaster relief something Mississippi can easily navigate?
Opinion
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Bill Crawford
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April 27, 2025
Model Utah program considered by legislature unfairly denigrated
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Courtney Taylor
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April 25, 2025
Inside Mississippi’s workforce reset: Reduce waste, cut overhead, create results
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