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Mississippi revenue collections are on record pace

By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, 1,835 Reads
Wed, 05/12/2021 - 04:30 PM

Mississippi revenue collections through April are on near-record pace for the largest percentage year over year increase in the modern era.

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Graphic by Bethany Atkinson

Mississippi requests $2 billion in federal COVID relief funds for state, local governments

By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, 1,215 Reads
Wed, 05/12/2021 - 04:08 PM

The state of Mississippi has applied for more than $2 billion in American Rescue Plan funds — a key first step to the state receiving the federal stimulus money for local and state governments to spend.

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Mississippi lawmakers again face the task of redrawing U.S. House districts after preliminary census data was released last month.

Task of redrawing U.S. House districts not as daunting as in 2000

By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, 1,648 Reads
Mon, 05/10/2021 - 04:36 PM

In 2001, House Speaker Tim Ford of Baldwyn supported the plan of fellow Democrats to place much of suburban Jackson in a congressional district with northeast Mississippi.

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Mississippians continue gathering signatures for six initiatives, including legalizing recreational marijuana and restoring the old state flag. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

Six active ballot initiatives could be halted by Mississippi Supreme Court ruling

By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, 3,517 Reads
Fri, 05/07/2021 - 02:20 PM

A pending decision by the Mississippi Supreme Court could end citizen efforts to put several issues on the statewide election ballot for voters to decide.

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Pay raises for state employees yet to be determined

By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, 4,901 Reads
Wed, 05/05/2021 - 11:33 AM

How many of Mississippi’s roughly 26,000 state employees will receive raises and the amounts they receive will not be known until later this year.

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Mississippi House speaker Philip Gunn speaks during Gov. Tate Reeves press conference at the State of Mississippi Woolfolk Building in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, May 7, 2020. Credit: Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today

Gunn, often guided by his faith, does not see Medicaid expansion in religious terms

By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, 2,579 Reads
Mon, 05/03/2021 - 12:28 PM

Health care advocates, many health care providers and others who desperately want to see the state expand Medicaid to cover primarily the working poor blame Gov. Tate Reeves for blocking the effort.

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‘Relic from the past’: Lawmakers examine Mississippi felony voting prohibitions

By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, 11,748 Reads
Thu, 04/29/2021 - 01:46 PM

House Judiciary B Chair Nick Bain, R-Corinth, questions the logic of why at least some of the people convicted of felonies permanently lose their voting rights unless they are restored by a two-thirds vote of both chambers of the Mississippi Legislature.

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Mississippi loses population, not expected to lose House seat

By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, 2,928 Reads
Wed, 04/28/2021 - 11:10 AM

Mississippi will not lose a congressional seat even though it was one of only three states to lose population during the past decade, according to early U.S. census data released this week.

State leaders had said for some time they did not believe the census would result in a loss of a congressional seat for Mississippi.

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Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn, left, and Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann speak after Gov. Tate Reeves press conference in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, May 7, 2020. Credit: Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today

The new era of cooperation in Legislature continued in 2021

By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, 3,311 Reads
Mon, 04/26/2021 - 11:16 AM

On the final day of the 2021 legislative session in early April, Speaker Philip Gunn spoke of the “good spirit of cooperation” that had permeated the House.

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Mississippi Senate killed 19 House bills to restore voting rights

By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, 4,716 Reads
Wed, 04/21/2021 - 04:06 PM

Jackson resident Omar Travis was released from prison about four years ago after being convicted of receiving stolen property. Before that, in 1991, he was convicted on a burglary charge.

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Newton County Appeal May 12, 2021