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Mississippi enacts new legislative district boundaries

Mississippi enacted new state legislative district boundaries on March 31 when both legislative chambers approved district maps for the other chamber. Legislative redistricting in Mississippi does not require gubernatorial approval. The maps will take effect for the state’s next legislative elections, in 2023.

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Social programs weak in many states with tough abortion laws

States with some of the nation’s strictest abortion laws are also some of the hardest places to have and raise a healthy child, especially for the poor

The Independent UK

Tyler Technologies To Provide Unified Platform For All Cannabis Licensing Needs In Mississippi

Tyler Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: TYL) announced today it has signed a five-year agreement with the state of Mississippi for Tyler’s NIC Licensing Solution, the government licensing platform designed specifically for the cannabis industry.

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Mississippi governor signs state's largest income tax cut

Mississippi residents will pay lower income taxes, beginning in 2023

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The census missed some folks. These cities want them counted

When the 2020 census found that tiny McNab, Arkansas, had lost more than half its residents, Mayor James Conway went door to door and found 45 people in the rural town instead of the 30 reported by the census.

Tribune News Service

Metrc Announces New Track-And-Trace Contract With Mississippi

Metrc, a provider of cannabis regulatory systems in the U.S., announced a new contract with the state of Mississippi to support the regulation of its medical cannabis market. This marks Metrc’s 21st government contract to date nationwide.

Benzinga

In a southern US capital, an unending water crisis

Jackson (United States) (AFP) - Every morning, 180 students at a school in Jackson, Mississippi have to board a bus to be taken to another nearby school.The reason?Their school lacks the water pressure needed to flush its own toilets.

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Mississippi joins states limiting outside election funding

Mississippi is the latest Republican-led state to ban election offices from accepting donations from private groups for voting operations

The Independent UK

Mississippi Governor Reeves signs bill affecting how race can be taught in public schools

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves (R) on March 14, 2022, signed a bill into law to prohibit teaching critical race theory in public schools. Senate Bill 2113 passed by a 75-43 vote in the House and a 32-2 vote in the Senate.

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Opponents of Mississippi’s anti- critical race theory law fear whitewashing of history

In Republicans’ fevered imaginations, schoolchildren are browbeaten into admitting they are racist

The Guardian - US

Can two players from a Mississippi town of 3,500 win on the PGA Tour and LPGA in back-to-back weeks? Ally Ewing charging at Chevron

Ewing has two top-10 finishes in four starts at this event, finishing tied for seventh last year.

USA Today Sports Media Group

'Go, Mississippi': State could ditch song with racist roots

Mississippi is on the verge of retiring a state song with racist roots, two years after it surrendered a Confederate-themed state flag

The Independent UK

Mississippi governor signs largest teacher raise in years

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a bill to authorize the state's largest teacher pay raise in a generation

The Independent UK

Mississippi could become final state with equal pay law

Mississippi could become the final state to enact a law requiring equal pay for equal work by women and men

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‘Historic injustice’: Biden makes lynching a US hate crime

Joe Biden signs anti-lynching law named after Emmett Till, a Black teen who was brutally killed in Mississippi in 1955.

Benzinga

Ibogaine Blocks Alcohol's Rewarding Effects On Mice, Recent Study Finds

According to a recent study published in the Frontiers in Psychopharmacology journal, the psychoactive substance ibogaine could block some addiction-related effects of alcohol. The study analyzed the effects of ibogaine in mice through the model of addiction known as “conditioned place preference” (CPP), which measures the tendency for animals to spend…

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Old Dominion Freight Line Adds Capacity Via New, Expanded Facilities

Old Dominion Freight Line Inc (NASDAQ:ODFL) revealed its expansion efforts with service center growth in seven cities in 4Q21 and 1Q22. The less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier's new or improved facilities include Alliance, Texas; Byhalia, Mississippi; Clear Lake, Iowa; Kernersville, North Carolina; Marysville, Washington; West Columbia, South Carolina; and Westfield, Massachusetts. The company specified that…

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Mississippi lawmakers pass largest-ever state income tax cut

Mississippi, one of the poorest states in the nation, is on track for its largest-ever tax cut

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Tribune News Service

Los pequeños restaurantes sobrevivientes avanzan conforme la pandemia disminuye

CLARKSDALE, Mississippi— Durante dos años, Naomi King, una australiana propietaria de Levon's Bar and Grill en Clarksdale, Mississippi, hizo girar su modelo de negocio en más de un sentido. La pandemia de coronavirus les obligó a ella y a su esposo, Jonathan King, a reducir la plantilla a la mitad,…

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Surviving small restaurants push forward as pandemic ebbs

CLARKSDALE, Miss. — For two years, Naomi King, an Australian native who owns Levon’s Bar and Grill in Clarksdale, Mississippi, pivoted her business model in more ways than one. The coronavirus pandemic forced her and her husband, Jonathan King, to cut the staff by half, reduce hours of operation and…

The Conversation

Tornadoes, climate change and why Dixie is the new Tornado Alley

Tornadoes tore up homes in New Orleans and its suburbs and were reported in communities from Texas to Mississippi and Alabama as severe storms swept across the South in late March 2022. We asked tornado scientist Ernest Agee to explain what causes tornadoes and how the center of U.S. tornado…

The Independent UK

Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama warned as storm approaches

A storm system that left widespread damage and some injuries in its wake in Texas is drifting into Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama

Chicago Sun-Times

This week in history: Fannie Lou Hamer gives startling depiction of racism in Mississippi

In 1964, the Chicago Daily News ran a series of articles depicting “a state divided by itself,” Mississippi. Writer Nicholas von Hoffman’s interview with activist Fannie Lou Hamer, who died this week in 1977, demonstrated the price she paid fighting for her rights.

Tribune News Service

POINT: If Roe is overturned, children, women and science will be respected once again

After decades of working to protect children from abortion, pro-lifers have successfully advanced legislation that challenges the bogus legal holding of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that legalized abortion in our country. The challenge comes from a 2018 Mississippi law protecting babies in the womb starting at 15…

The Independent UK

Kentucky Senate passes bill banning abortions after 15 weeks

Kentucky lawmakers have taken another step toward banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy

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