Perspective

• SAM R. HALL: Are Mississippians getting fed up over the lack of Medicaid expansion?
• BOBBY HARRISON: Gov. Tate Reeves, a self-proclaimed ‘numbers guy,’ is ignoring some pretty significant numbers
• SAM R. HALL: These other states only think their election laws are restrictive
• SID SALTER: Republicans Will Blame Biden for Inflation
• PHIL HARDWICK: Never assume anything about legislation
• TIM KALICH: Surplus is not going to last
• BILL CRAWFORD: “We the People” Timely for Bicenvicenquinquennial
• BRETT KITTREDGE: Population movement tells us a story
• EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS: Redistricting not as tough as it was 2 decades ago
• BILL CRAWFORD: Nonsense v. Common Sense

State News

• DJ: Companies preparing for vaccine mandate
• AP: Judge orders Mississippi city to allow mosque construction
• SH: MS health department reports staggering 17,525 new COVID cases over New Year’s holiday
• CL: Jackson ends year of record violence with more than 150 homicides; most were gun deaths
• SH: Antibody treatments in short supply as MS reports nearly 2,700 new COVID cases in 1 day
• SH: Will natural immunity protect me against a 2nd COVID infection? What Coast experts say
• SH: Accounting firm pays Jackson County millions over failed Singing River pension plan
• AP: Democrat from east Mississippi takes oath in state Senate
• DCN: County, cities to benefit from opioid settlement money
• CL: COVID-19 omicron variant discovered in Mississippi. Here’s what to know

Politics and Government

• CD: Watson touts need for updated voter rolls, takes aim at Facebook
• DJ: Legislative leader introduces bill to allow some felons to regain voting rights
• CL: ‘Mind boggling’: Anti-trans bills in MS Senate an attack on LGBTQ rights, advocates say
• WAPT: Rep. Bennie Thompson takes aim at Mississippi’s most recent issues of debate
• CL: Lawmakers are pushing to ban critical race theory in all Mississippi classrooms
• DJ: Mississippi House OKs bill on equal pay for women and men
• DJ: Senate committees pass pay raise bill for Mississippi teachers
• WLOX: Secretary of State Michael Watson talks job growth plan in Mississippi
• DJ: The Session
• CL: Mississippi House approves amended medical marijuana bill, sending it back to Senate

Blog

• MT: Podcast: Inside the wildest day (so far) of the 2022 legislative session
• YALL: Mississippi Senate’s $210 million Teacher Pay Plan passes 35-0
• YALL: Exclusive Interview with Senator Wicker following Senate filibuster vote, visit to Ukraine
• MT: House passes equal pay with bipartisan vote
• MT: Equal pay for women: Is this the year Mississippi will join rest of the nation?
• YALL: Mississippi one step closer to legal medical marijuana program
• JJ: Trash Talk: Let the Games Begin. UPDATE: Contract Rejected
• YALL: Speaker Gunn: House teacher pay, income tax elimination bills are “transformative” policy for Mississippi
• YALL: “Toxic situation” led to State Rep. Yates leaving Mississippi Democratic Party
• MT: Cheaper car tags help garner Democratic support for Gunn tax cut