Perspective

• SID SALTER: Mississippi Supreme Court ruling will impact Medicaid expansion, voting change efforts
• SAM R. HALL: The real reason lawmakers hate Mississippi ballot initiatives
• BILL CRAWFORD — Mississippi needs quantum leap in STEM knowledge
• RICK PERRY: Parole reform bill would be smart on crime, soft on Mississippi taxpayers
• BOBBY HARRISON: Supreme Court must decide if will take ballot initiative from people
• DJ ED: Lawmakers should expand Medicaid or voters likely will
• ND ED: Governor’s secret proclamation brings light to serious issue
• EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS: Mississippi unlikely to ease its election laws
• BILL CRAWFORD: State Indifference Leads to “Hungriest County”
• AARON RICE: Stop the eyebrow police: Lawsuits led to licensing reform in MS, but more work needed

State News

• SH: Mississippi should pause use of Johnson & Johnson vaccine, health dept. advises
• SH: $55M coming to Coast for over 70 projects: Better piers, parks, boat launches and more
• SH: Mississippi reports first cases of two California COVID-19 variants
• SH: Mississippi reports first cases of two California COVID-19 variants
• AP: Mississippi rewrites ‘confusing’ COVID-19 scheduling script
• DJ: Body camera footage details Tupelo police detention of Wesley Wells
• CL: Severe weather: Mississippi schools announce closures, switch to virtual learning Wednesday
• CL: Severe weather: Mississippi schools announce closures, switch to virtual learning Wednesday
• CL: Coronavirus in Mississippi: 679 new cases, 19 deaths reported Thursday
• SH: Coast grocery store worker placed on leave after shoppers say they were called N-word

Politics and Government

• WLBT: Secretary of State questions legitimacy of Canton’s Democratic executive committee
• DJ: Mississippi started investigating its largest Medicaid contractor 2 years ago
• CL: Advocacy group to Reeves: Throw Confederate Heritage Month ‘into the dustbin of history’
• ND: Hosemann won’t close door to Medicaid expansion in Mississippi
• DJ: Mississippi Supreme Court weighs legality of state’s medical marijuana ballot initiative
• CD: Hosemann: New federal funds should change state’s trajectory
• WCBI: Lt. Governor speaks on revived plan for a teacher pay raise
• CL: Mississippi might have trouble hosting NCAA championships because transgender athletes law
• WLBT: Sen. McDaniel says ‘to hell with the NCAA’ after potential boycott over trans legislation
• WT: Sen. Roger Wicker: GOP willing to negotiate on infrastructure

Blog

• MT: Mississippi Senate killed 19 House bills to restore voting rights
• JJ: Zooceanarium Withdraws from Zoo Negotiations
• YALL: Mississippi lawmaker puts effort behind early voting ballot initiative
• JJ: Madison Police Officer Dragged in Chase
• MT: Gov. Tate Reeves buries critical COVID-19 message while pandering
• JJ: Jackson Won’t Release EPA Emails
• MT: Podcast: Medical marijuana decision has major implications for Mississippi voters’ rights
• MCIR: Mississippi investigation of Medicaid provider Centene builds case for more oversight
• JJ: Foreigners Busted w/Narcotics in Madison
• JJ: WLBT Busts Lumumba