Perspective

• SID SALTER: Wicker played a leading role in writing $2.2 trillion CARES Act legislation
• EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS: Virus Upends Mississippi Budget Writing Process
• BOBBY HARRISON: Stock market dive brings attention to that third rail – state pension plan
• BILL CRAWFORD: Virus Deaths Should Weigh Heavily on Political Leaders
• AP: Editorial Roundup
• MICHAEL WATSON: Participation in census crucial to all Mississippians. Here’s why, says secretary of state
• LENA MITCHELL: More Mississippi party-switchers move from Democrat to Republican
• BILL CRAWFORD: ‘Maybe we’ll realize that we are better together’
• BOBBY HARRISON: Legislators discuss legalizing medical marijuana in effort to keep out of Constitution
• FRANK CORDER: Why closing public meetings isn’t an option, and social media broadcasting isn’t a solution

State News

• SH: Bonnet Carré Spillway is opening Friday to prevent flooding, Army Corps decides
• CL: Coronavirus in Mississippi: 22 nursing homes in 20 counties have outbreaks
• AP: Inmate dies after fight in privately run Mississippi prison
• WTOK: Retired nurses may be needed to help deal with coronavirus outbreak in Mississippi
• SH: ‘Most of us live paycheck to paycheck.’ Coronavirus anxiety grips Ingalls workers.
• CL: Coronavirus in Mississippi: What we know Wednesday
• SH: ‘Happy tears.’ Laid-off Coast women find life-saving way to help essential workers
• SH: Bonnet Carré Spillway is set to open again this week, officials say. Here are the details.
• CL: ‘I have coronavirus’: Adams County sheriff describes quest for test, symptoms, ordeal
• CL: Coronavirus in Mississippi: What we know Tuesday

Politics and Government

• CL: Coronavirus in Mississippi: What we know Friday
• CL: How we got here: Gov. Tate Reeves’ evolving language on a statewide lockdown
• AP: Mississippi gov sets statewide stay-home order amid virus
• CL: Mississippi coronavirus: Gov. Tate Reeves planning to order statewide lockdown
• CL: Jackson mayor to issue shelter-in-place order Wednesday
• WLOX: White House removes Gulfport judge’s name from consideration for Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
• WLOX: State senators ask Gov. Reeves to close coastal beaches to all non-residents
• DJ: Tupelo mayor continues to criticize governor’s response to COVID-19 spread
• RC: Watchdog seeks probe of campaign spending by Mississippi Rep. Palazzo
• AP: Gov. Reeves, health officer: Statewide shutdown ‘not sustainable.’ Quarantine for ‘clusters’

Blog

• YALL: Hosemann asks churches to ring bells to support healthcare workers and the sick
• JJ: Health Department Stonewalls Again
• YALL: Congressmen Kelly, Thornberry release Military Family Readiness Legislation
• MCIR: Mississippi may be tried over education funding, appeals court rules
• MT: Reeves finalizing plans for statewide shelter-in-place order after grim plea from a top doctor
• JJ: Killer Back in Jail
• MT: Second lawmaker forced to choose between pension, service resigns
• MT: ‘Just another daunting challenge’: Rural districts embrace creative solutions amid coronavirus school closures
• JJ: Covid19 Infections Rise to 758
• JJ: MSDH Reports 663 Covid19 Cases & 13 Deaths