Tate Reeves took donations from power company that hiked customer rates
Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves took $98,000 from Mississippi Power and executives of its parent company.
By Jesse Valentine - November 06, 2023Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves took $98,000 from Mississippi Power and executives of its parent company.
By Jesse Valentine - November 06, 2023Gov. Tate Reeves’ top campaign contributors netted $1.4 billion in state contracts or grants from agencies the governor oversees, a Mississippi Today investigation found. Of the 88 individual or corporate donors who have given Reeves’ campaigns at least $50,000, Mississippi Today identified 15 donors whose companies received a total of $1.4 billion in state contracts […]
By Jesse Valentine - November 01, 2023It might not surprise Mississippians that The Cook Political Report, regarded as one of the nation’s preeminent elections experts, shifted their 2023 Mississippi governor’s race forecast on Monday in Democrat Brandon Presley’s direction.
By Adam Ganucheau, Mississippi Today - October 24, 2023The Mississippi Development Authority provided incentives to businesses that promised new jobs in the state.
By Josh Israel - October 03, 2023The Mississippi governor’s plan would give hundreds of millions of dollars to hospitals, but would not expand Medicaid for low-income families.
By Josh Israel - September 26, 2023William Adam Hopper was appointed district attorney despite his involvement in efforts to keep wrongly convicted inmate Curtis Flowers in prison.
By Emily Singer - September 20, 2023‘We're seeing no clarification on how these exceptions can be applied,’ says Greta Kemp Martin, the Democratic candidate for Mississippi attorney general.
By Rebekah Sager - August 29, 2023The latest news impacting reproductive rights around the country.
By Rebekah Sager - August 18, 2023Mississippi is one of just three states to tax groceries at the full sales tax rate, which disproportionately hurts low-income residents.
By Emily Singer - June 27, 2023The city has issued multiple boil water notices over the past year.
By Oliver Willis - June 08, 2023Jackson, Mississippi, a city of 150,000, is in the sixth week of a boil-water advisory from the state health department because of concerns that low pressure could allow contaminants into the water.
By Associated Press - September 10, 2022An overview of six of the 12 states with strict abortion bans after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision shows the drastic effects anti-abortion policies can have.
By Lisa Needham - August 31, 2022Lies pedaled by anti-abortion advocates are being proven wrong by the horrifying effects new laws are having on people across the country.
By Lisa Needham - August 19, 2022Congress designated 988 as the universal number for the mental health crisis hotline system in 2020 after nationwide protests against cases of police brutality.
By Associated Press - July 24, 2022Why would Republican lawmakers take issue with a bill that would help protect pregnant people in the workplace?
By Lisa Needham - June 22, 2022‘We have been preparing for the day Roe falls and we are ready,’ said Yamelsie Rodriguez, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri.
By Associated Press - May 22, 2022Since the Supreme Court agreed to consider Mississippi’s ban, multiple states have passed previability bans.
By Lisa Needham - April 08, 2022Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn claimed he hadn’t seen the data that shows Medicaid expansion saves lives.
By Lisa Needham - March 21, 2022Despite the department’s decision to close its investigation of Emmett Till’s slaying, agents are still probing as many as 20 other civil rights cold cases.
By Associated Press - December 24, 2021It looks like the network’s anti-vaccine rhetoric isn’t working on voters, according to its own polling unit.
By Josh Israel - September 20, 2021Abortion bans aren’t helping the state’s ‘alarming infant and maternal mortality rates.’
By Lisa Needham - August 31, 2021Several organizations have filed a federal lawsuit demanding an alternative to the state’s standard license plate which features the motto, ‘In God We Trust.’
By Josh Axelrod - June 23, 2021Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-MS) spent more than $61,000 on payments to a Mississippi-based law firm.
By Josh Israel - June 17, 2021People are turning increasingly to self-managed medication abortions.
By Lisa Needham - June 04, 2021GOP lawmakers openly acknowledge that they are looking to upend the precedent set by Roe v. Wade.
By Lisa Needham - May 26, 2021The new Texas law prohibits state officials from being the ones to enforce the ban on abortion.
By Associated Press - May 19, 2021In 2020, Mississippi residents voted to replace the Confederate design on their state flag.
By Oliver Willis - April 13, 2021Experts disagree on whether a COVID-19 surge is looming — but agree that opening indoor dining at 100% capacity is a danger to employees and patrons either way.
By Donna Provencher - March 08, 2021When they failed to stop marriage equality, anti-LGBTQ groups turned to attacking transgender people.
By Casey Quinlan - March 08, 2021Republican lawmakers have been trying to push transgender kids out of sports in multiple states.
By Oliver Willis - March 04, 2021