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Jan 19 2022
Background
Requirements For Religious Exemptions And How To Write An Exemption Request
The recently released executive order from President Biden called for thousands of businesses to implement a mandatory vaccination policy. Although the order provided many details about why the mandate would help the United States bounce back from damage done by COVID-19, it avoided to provide specific details like; who would be responsible for associated costs, timeline employers will need to
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Feb 17 2021
Opinion
How Texans got left out in the cold by ERCOT and our political leaders
I had been living in Memphis for three months when the big storm hit.
On a Thursday night in February 1994, the mid-South was bombarded with the most severe ice storm it had experienced in a century. Very quickly, the sheer accumulation of ice started toppling trees and downing transmission lines.
Roughly 80 percent of Memphis and North Mississippi residents lost their power for
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Jun 17 2022
News
2020 Census 'Undercounts and Overcounts' Could Determine if Democrats or Republicans Have Control of US House
A 2020 U.S. Census review found that the errors within the count may have cost some states extra seats in Congress while allowing others to hang on to some of theirs.
With control of the lower chamber up for grabs, it could be the census that ultimately determines whether Democrats or Republicans have the majority in the House.
The census not only measures how many people live
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May 03 2022
News
'Time to Take to the Streets': Mobilizations Planned as Supreme Court Targets Roe
Abortion rights advocates geared up to mobilize in the nation's capital and across the United States on Tuesday following the leak of a draft decision signaling that the Supreme Court's right-wing majority is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade.
While the decision outlined in the draft opinion—authored by Justice Samuel Alito—is not yet final, it would strike a devastating blow to
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Dec 14 2021
News
Doctor Says He Was Fired for Trying to Treat COVID-19 Patients With Ivermectin
A Mississippi doctor said he was fired for attempting to treat COVID-19 patients with ivermectin, which is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat parasites, although the hospital in question said he was not an employee but instead was an independent contractor.
Dr. John Witcher, an emergency room physician at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Yazoo City, said was “
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May 02 2022
News
House Jan. 6 Panel Seeks Interviews With Three More G.O.P. Lawmakers
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol sent letters on Monday seeking interviews with three Republican members of Congress, and the panel said it had gathered evidence that some House Republicans sought presidential pardons in the aftermath of the violence that engulfed the Capitol.
The committee is requesting interviews with Representative Andy Biggs of
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Sep 05 2021
Analysis
Millions of Americans don’t have drinkable water. Can the infrastructure bill fix that?
Laurie Bertram Roberts has been drinking bottled water for years.
Often, the tap water where she lives is questionable, she says. And sometimes, it’s straight-up brown.
A longtime resident of Jackson, Mississippi, Bertram Roberts has dealt with the city’s water issues since she was a college student. In her time there, century-old pipes in Jackson have meant numerous water main
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Dec 01 2021
News
Abortions could require 200-mile trips if Roe is overturned
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, the average American could have to travel around 125 miles to reach the nearest abortion provider, compared to the current average of 25 miles, according to the Myers Abortion Facility database.
State of play: 12 states will immediately restrict abortion if Roe disappears, and others would be likely to impose significant new restrictions.
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Feb 28 2015
News
Who Gets Food Stamps? White People, Mostly
Gene Alday, a Republican member of the Mississippi state legislature, apologized last week for telling a reporter that all the African-Americans in his hometown of Walls, Mississippi, are unemployed and on food stamps.
"I come from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call 'welfare crazy checks,'" Alday said to a reporter for The Clarion-Ledger, a Mississippi
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Sep 03 2021
News
U.S. Marshals Arrest Ohio Man Who Accosted NBC Reporter During Hurricane Coverage
An Ohio man who was filmed accosting an MSNBC reporter covering Hurricane Ida in Gulfport, Mississippi, was arrested by U.S. Marshals on Thursday.
Benjamin Dagley, 54, of Wooster, was taken into custody outside of a shopping plaza in Dayton, Ohio, according to a department release.
On Monday, Dagley was filmed exiting a white truck and shouting in the face of MSNBC reporter
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