by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today April 23, 2023 Based on the budget passed hurriedly and with barely any debate in late March during the final days of the 2023 session, legislators apparently were saying all of the state’s problems had been solved. They were...
by Wendy Bailey, Executive Director, Mississippi Department of Mental Health In Mississippi, one of the most powerful forces preventing someone from seeking mental health treatment is stigma – the negative perceptions and misconceptions someone may have around a...
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today April 23, 2023 The ink was barely dry on Gov. Tate Reeves’ signature of legislation designed to create a separate judicial and law enforcement district within the city of Jackson before the NAACP filed a lawsuit challenging the...
by Julia James, Mississippi Today April 18, 2023 Two weeks after being rejected by the Senate to serve as state superintendent, Robert Taylor defended his record of improving schools and said his nomination was manipulated into a political issue by Sen. Chris McDaniel...
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today April 19, 2023 The United States Supreme Court has postponed for the eighth time this year a decision on whether to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of a Mississippi provision enacted in 1890 with the intent of...
by Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today April 18, 2023 Lieutenant governor candidate Chris McDaniel has reported returning legally questionable large donations from a Virginia dark-money nonprofit, and shutting down his PAC through which the donations flowed to his...
