Perspective

• GEOFF PENDER: Mississippi procrastinates as other states plan for, spend billions in pandemic stimulus
• WP ED: Tate Reeves and the high cost of covid incompetence
• BILL CRAWFORD: What’s our Governor up to Now?
• BOBBY HARRISON: Mississippi politicians don’t believe what they keep being told about Medicaid expansion
• ED HOLLIDAY & JAMES HULL: Is the media failing to hold our national and state leaders accountable?
• AP: Editorial Roundup: Mississippi
• DJ ED: Time for a medical marijuana special session
• GEOFF PENDER: Time for lawmakers, governor to fish or cut bait on medical marijuana
• SAM R. HALL: We can stand united amidst righteous division
• BOBBY HARRISON: Safety precautions embraced by all of Mississippi after 9/11, unlike during COVID-19

State News

• CL: Tracking COVID-19 in Mississippi: 2,594 new coronavirus cases reported Thursday
• SH: How many Afghan refugees are headed to Mississippi? Here’s the latest.
• SH: MS lawsuit over Bonnet Carré Spillway damage dismissed; harm to fisheries case continues
• SH: A Coast hospital turned a gym into a COVID antibody treatment center. Get an inside look.
• FORBES: Mississippi: Over 18,000 Students Covid-19 Coronavirus Positive Since August
• WLOX: Help still hasn’t arrived for Memorial Hospital healthcare workers, according to MEMA
• CL: ‘Draining and depressing’: Mississippi nurses share the impact of 18 months in a pandemic
• CL: Pediatric COVID cases skyrocketing in Mississippi as seventh child dies due to coronavirus
• SH: A baby has died of COVID-19 in Mississippi, the 7th child death so far in the state
• SH: An unvaccinated Coast nurse died of COVID. Her loved ones want to warn vaccine skeptics.

Politics and Government

• WJTV: Supreme Court to hear Mississippi abortion case December 1
• CNN: Jake Tapper grills Mississippi governor: ‘Your way is failing’
• CL: Records: Mississippi attorney general’s use of security detail previously questioned
• NYT: Southern Republicans Cannot Be Trusted With Public Health
• CL: Court records: Mississippi attorney general abusing position in fight over father’s interests
• DJ: DA ‘plans to seek an indictment’ against Tupelo Councilwoman Nettie Davis, court filing claims
• DJ: AG shares initiatives at MC Republican Women’s charter dinner
• MSNBC: Mississippi governor tries to explain his state’s pandemic passivity
• AP: Mississippi governor: Christians are ‘less scared’ of COVID
• NYT: When the New Covid Surge Struck, Mississippi Was Uniquely Unprepared

Blog

• JJ: WYAB Thursday
• YALL: Secretary Watson sends concerns to MS Board of Medical Licensure on recently adopted Covid-19 policy
• JJ: Rez Water/Sewer Rates Going up 20%
• JJ: Flowood Don’t Play
• JJ: Cleveland Students Arrested for Food Protest
• MFP: Mississippi Now No. 1 in All-Time COVID Deaths Per 100,000, Dethroning New Jersey
• MT: State economist refutes politicians’ claim that Mississippi cannot afford Medicaid expansion
• YALL: Abortion attorneys file brief in Mississippi’s 15-week ban case before SCOTUS. AG Fitch responds.
• JJ: The Plot Thickens
• MT: MDOC says 89% of incarcerated population is fully vaccinated, though some say they’re still waiting on second dose