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Inside a $30 million bet on Mississippi’s medical marijuana industry
In an unincorporated area outside Raymond stands what its chief executive claims will be the largest medical marijuana growing and manufacturing operation in Mississippi,...
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Can lawmakers keep abortion pills out of Mississippi? Local, international activists say no.
In the days after the leak of a draft opinion showing the U.S. Supreme Court will likely overturn Roe v. Wade, hundreds of Mississippians...
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Insurance commissioner asks UMMC and Blue Cross to help man featured in Mississippi Today stories
Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney sent a letter late Friday to attorneys for Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi and University of Mississippi...
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Podcast: Mississippi state auditors have long chased higher political ambitions
State Auditor Shad White, whose welfare investigation has recently been called into question, is one in a long line of Mississippi state auditors with...
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Another Mississippi ‘trigger law’ to keep an eye on as Supreme Court deliberates: gay marriage
The 2007 law that would ban abortions in Mississippi if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade isn’t the only so-called “trigger law” language...
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Do Reeves, Gunn consider IUDs contraceptives? They won’t say.
State leaders this week scrambled to clarify that prohibiting contraception isn’t on the table in Mississippi after Gov. Tate Reeves declined on national television...
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Former auditors question whether Shad White was too close to investigate Phil Bryant
Three former state auditors say they would have recused themselves or limited their involvement in the investigation into Mississippi’s welfare fraud scandal to avoid...
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Ole Miss shows they have some fight left in them. Meanwhile, USM must find some.
HATTIESBURG — To paraphrase the great Twain: Reports of the demise of the Ole Miss Rebels baseball team have been greatly exaggerated.
Yes, the road...
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Rising costs, contract work exacerbate nursing shortage for state’s safety net hospital
As part of efforts to address a shortage of nurses and respiratory therapists, the University of Mississippi Medical Center...
‘A huge victory’: Minimum wage workers at USM get pay raise after protest
University of Southern Mississippi’s president announced a pay increase for hourly employees on Wednesday, two weeks after United Campus...
Microsoft launches program in Jackson to grow tech job opportunities, workers skills
Microsoft has tapped a University of Mississippi grad to lead its new philanthropic efforts in Jackson through its “TechSpark...
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Rising costs, contract work exacerbate nursing shortage for state’s safety net hospital
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‘A huge victory’: Minimum wage workers at USM get pay raise after protest
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