Justice Department hammers Mississippi State Penitentiary for violent, inhumane conditions
Justice Department officials said Wednesday that conditions at the State Penitentiary at Parchman violate the Constitution.
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Misuse of welfare funds nothing new in Mississippi
Is the current scandal involving former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant encouraging the funneling of millions in welfare funds to family and friends the first time these kinds of allegations have surfaced?
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Family first: Gov. Phil Bryant turned to welfare officials to rescue troubled nephew
Noah McRae was the kind of kid who, if you said the sky is blue, would argue it is red until he was ready to fight.
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Our dad was in the Klan: ‘If you don’t learn your history, then you’re doomed to relive it’
Leland and Sonny Boyd say some relatives and old friends wonder why they are speaking publicly about their father’s involvement in the Ku Klux Klan in 1960s Louisiana.
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Will proposed income tax cuts hijack Mississippi’s high-tech future?
Gov. Tate Reeves and House Speaker Phillip Gunn have pushed to increase broadband access and add computer science classes in public schools.
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Influential Delta business group calls for Medicaid expansion
A major economic development organization that represents the 19 Mississippi Delta counties on Monday called for lawmakers to expand Medicaid.
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‘It makes it hard to work’: The real cost of not expanding Medicaid in Mississippi
Briana Wright has worked all her adult life. The 27-year-old Kosciusko resident has been a crew member at McDonald’s for three years.
Wright is stuck in what is commonly referred to as the healthcare coverage gap.
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Stopping pollution from worn down water systems will be costly
Four of the state’s larger cities – Jackson, Hattiesburg, Meridian and Greenville – are all under federal consent decrees to stop pollution from their worn down sewer and wastewater systems.
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