Governor signs ‘Back the Badge’ into law
Governor Phil Bryant has signed into law a bill that will increase the penalties for those who hurt first responders. Firefighters, police officers, and ambulance...
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Morgan Freeman reminds you to register to vote for local elections
New Mississippi voters hoping to cast a ballot in the upcoming municipal primary elections have about two weeks to send in their voter registration application....
Mississippi’s lawmakers hard at work in D.C.
Mississippi’s congressional delegation are staying active in D.C. U.S. Senators Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) have resumed their legislative effort to authorize a...
Mississippi congressmen react to POTUS budget outline
President Donald Trump has released his budget outline for fiscal year 2018. In the outline, proposed funding eliminations would fall to the African Development Foundation; the...
Governor signs several bills into law
The governor has signed several of the bills that have come across his desk. With his signature, those bills become law. Here’s just a few...
Senate appropriations funds MAEP as backup
Whether or not the Mississippi Adequate Education Program Formula will change is up to lawmakers–and the discussion surrounding it, if it were to happen this...
Future Caucus: not the kids’ table, adults in the room
Often the word millennials is spat, almost like an insult. Then pair that with party affiliations being hurled out as harsh critiques (those liberals or...
Rivers’ Law to be revised
Tuesday the Senate voted on a “strike all” for Rivers’ Law. The law originally required a phone call to the parents of a child under the...
Solution to be offered after killing domestic violence bill
by Sarah Ulmer
Last week a bill that would make domestic violence legal grounds for divorce was killed in the Judiciary B Committee by the Chairman Andy Gipson. ...
Wicker votes to confirm Wilbur Ross for Commerce Secretary
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., a senior member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, voted to confirm Wilbur Ross as Secretary of...