Published in the Clarion Ledger In the Oct. 10 article, “Bryant: Federal health law hurts Miss. economy,” Gov. Phil Bryant repeated his opposition to expanding Medicaid. As health law director for the Mississippi Center for Justice, I know that expanding Medicaid will not only help hundreds of...
Mississippi Attorney General Jackson, MS-Attorney General Jim Hood announced that his office has created the Mississippi Foreclosure Prevention Consortium to assist homeowners who are struggling as a result of the foreclosure crisis. The consortium was created through funding provided under the National Mortgage Settlement that was...
Jackson Free Press Dustin Cardon, Donna Ladd, Ronni Mott Few eyes were dry when Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of Jackson civil-rights hero Medgar Evers, stood in front of 600 people in downtown Jackson Thursday night and declared her love for Mississippi and for her first husband, gunned...
Published in the Clarion Ledger Jimmie E. Gates It was like honoring royalty as a sellout crowd of 600 people gathered in downtown Jackson to say “we love you” to two Mississippi icons. It was a night to show love for a woman of courage, Myrlie Evers-Williams, and...
published in the Sun Herald In late August 2005, one day before an obscure tropical depression formed over the Bahamas, almost 3,000 Coast residents turned out to protest state plans to drill offshore for oil and gas. Within a week, that tropical depression had entered the Gulf...
published in the Sun Herald Anita Lee GULFPORT -- The state port is spending more than $560 million to expand its West Pier, where four current tenants will operate, but has not secured long-term leases with those tenants, according to a review ordered by Gov. Phil Bryant. Also,...
New York Times John Schwartz BALTIMORE — The four cranes rise grandly over the port here, 14 stories high. Just off the boat from China and now being prepared for operations, the $40 million machines are part of this city’s gamble that when supersize container ships start...
Clarion Ledger by Jeff Ayres Hundreds of Mississippi homeowners could escape foreclosure with the help of the state's partnership with nonprofits and with the companies blamed for creating the nation's mortgage crisis footing the bill. The Mississippi Foreclosure Prevention Consortium, announced Monday, will offer free financial and legal...
Delta Democrat Times by Marni von Wilpert Today is national HIV testing day, and there us no better time than today to find out your HIV status. Mississippi has the sixth highest rate of HIV in the nation in 2009, and there are nearly 10,000 people who...
Clarion Ledger WASHINGTON — Mississippi's Republican lawmakers vowed Thursday to join GOP leaders in an effort to repeal the nation's health care law - despite a Supreme Court ruling to keep it in place. "Only a full repeal of this overreaching law will allow Americans to receive...
