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Mississippi To Require Voter ID By 2014

If Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann has his way, Magnolia State voters will be required to show photo identification to vote, and it could start as early as 2014. Hosemann, seizing on the U.S. Supreme Court decision last week to strike down the Voting Rights Act of 1965, is ...

Miss. House Approves $840m Medicaid Bill

Mississippi House Democrats didn't quite get the Medicaid expansion they wanted, but are declaring victory in sort of getting a debate on the subject. In the end, after a couple of attempts to expand ways for more citizens to receive health insurance coverage, a $841 million Medicaid appropriation bill passed ...

At Long Last, Gov. Bryant Calls Medicaid Special Session

Break out the seersucker, Gov. Phil Bryant has called a special session of the Mississippi Legislature for Thursday morning at 10 a.m. The Medicaid program is set to expire on July 1 if lawmakers do not renew it. The House will take up the Medicaid reauthorization bill first; then it ...

Siemens Deal Cleared In Court

The complaint filed in chancery court has been withdrawn and District 3 Judge Denise Owens ruled Thursday to allow the city of Jackson to issue bonds to pay for the $90 million sewer and water improvement project with the Siemens company. According to Advanced Technology Business Solutions attorney Herbert Irvin, ...

GOP, Dems: Still Bangin' Over Medicaid

Forget about making Mississippi healthier. Forget about the cost to taxpayers. The fight over Medicaid in Mississippi is turning into an all-out partisan turf war. The latest salvo came yesterday, when Democratic Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood issued an opinion stating that the governor cannot lawfully run the Medicaid program ...

Inaugural Events Aplenty

Here is the list of events scheduled for Lumumba's inauguration celebration, which will apparently last four days: Friday, June 28, 2013 Kick-off celebration (3 p.m. - 7 p.m.) - Smith Park Saturday, June 29, 2013 Ward 2 celebration (10 a.m. - 1 p.m.) - Presidential Hills, Ward 3 celebration (Noon ...

It's Official: Flaggs is Outta Here

Veteran state Rep. George Flaggs will officially retire from the Mississippi House of Representatives on June 30. Flaggs, a Democrat, recently survived a gauntlet of a race for Vicksburg in which the incumbent became the focus of a federal corruption probe and another contender became a victim of her own ...

MSGOP Issues Anti-Obamacare Resolution

In a unanimous and completely unsurprising move, the Mississippi Republican Central Committee rejected the federal Affordable Care Act, which Congress passed three years ago. The state GOP said it was supporting the positions of the state's Three Tops--Gov. Phil Bryant, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and Speaker Philip Gunn--in resisting the ...

Mississippi Dems Hang on to Mayor Seats, Turn Others Blue

Mississippi Democrats are basking in the post-electoral bliss of having held on to or picked up a number of mayor's seats yesterday. A shock to no one, Democrat Chokwe Lumumba coasted to a W in Jackson (lesson here for future secret campaign engineers: being on the down-low never helped anyone). ...