Tate Reeves took donations from power company that hiked customer rates
Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves took $98,000 from Mississippi Power and executives of its parent company.
By Jesse Valentine - November 06, 2023Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves took $98,000 from Mississippi Power and executives of its parent company.
By Jesse Valentine - November 06, 2023Gov. Tate Reeves’ top campaign contributors netted $1.4 billion in state contracts or grants from agencies the governor oversees, a Mississippi Today investigation found. Of the 88 individual or corporate donors who have given Reeves’ campaigns at least $50,000, Mississippi Today identified 15 donors whose companies received a total of $1.4 billion in state contracts […]
By Jesse Valentine - November 01, 2023It might not surprise Mississippians that The Cook Political Report, regarded as one of the nation’s preeminent elections experts, shifted their 2023 Mississippi governor’s race forecast on Monday in Democrat Brandon Presley’s direction.
By Adam Ganucheau, Mississippi Today - October 24, 2023The Mississippi Development Authority provided incentives to businesses that promised new jobs in the state.
By Josh Israel - October 03, 2023The Mississippi governor’s plan would give hundreds of millions of dollars to hospitals, but would not expand Medicaid for low-income families.
By Josh Israel - September 26, 2023William Adam Hopper was appointed district attorney despite his involvement in efforts to keep wrongly convicted inmate Curtis Flowers in prison.
By Emily Singer - September 20, 2023Mississippi is one of just three states to tax groceries at the full sales tax rate, which disproportionately hurts low-income residents.
By Emily Singer - June 27, 2023It looks like the network’s anti-vaccine rhetoric isn’t working on voters, according to its own polling unit.
By Josh Israel - September 20, 2021Abortion bans aren’t helping the state’s ‘alarming infant and maternal mortality rates.’
By Lisa Needham - August 31, 2021Several organizations have filed a federal lawsuit demanding an alternative to the state’s standard license plate which features the motto, ‘In God We Trust.’
By Josh Axelrod - June 23, 2021Police warned motorists to stay away amid reports of guns being brandished and fireworks going off as street racers clogged a stretch of interstate in Aurora, Colorado, on March 7.
By Associated Press - May 16, 2021In 2020, Mississippi residents voted to replace the Confederate design on their state flag.
By Oliver Willis - April 13, 2021Republican governors are still refusing to expand Medicaid for their lowest-income citizens, even with more free money from the federal government.
By Associated Press - March 21, 2021When they failed to stop marriage equality, anti-LGBTQ groups turned to attacking transgender people.
By Casey Quinlan - March 08, 2021Gov. Brian Kemp’s ban comes as Georgia is seeing a spike of coronavirus cases, like many other states in the South.
By Emily Singer - July 16, 2020A new Mississippi abortion law seems designed to intimidate patients and threaten doctors.
By Lisa Needham - July 01, 2020‘The emotional distress that the current flag perpetuates on people of color extends throughout the United States,’ said the chair of the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus.
By Associated Press - June 24, 2020Gov. Tate Reeves is facing criticism over his slow response to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Josh Israel - April 06, 2020