Perspective

• SAM R. HALL: Witnessing executions is not ‘ghoulish’
• ROSS REILY: EPA wrong to restore Yazoo Pumps veto
• BOBBY HARRISON: Key credit rating agency voices concerns about Tate Reeves’ proposed tax cuts
• AP: Editorial Roundup: Mississippi
• SID SALTER: Ray Mosby: God will enjoy listening to and arguing with authentic Delta journalist
• SAM R. HALL: Tate Reeves is politicking. Philip Gunn and Delbert Hosemann are governing.
• BOBBY HARRISON: Legislators face ‘tough’ chore of spending up to $2 billion in surplus state funds
• BILL CRAWFORD: Does government have bandwidth to spend federal billions properly?
• SID SALTER: Soaring gas prices illustrate why GOP expect gains in the 2022 midterm elections
• MARK KEENUM: Need and merit-based financial assistance for Mississippi students is essential for our state’s future

State News

• SH: In desperate need of nurses, Memorial Hospital offering unique recruitment incentive
• CL: As Mississippians grieve 10,000 lost to COVID-19, pandemic still a war not yet won
• NPR: Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, is a city with 2 identities — that often clash
• CL: ‘We got to stop the killing:’ Deion Sanders pleads with Jackson residents after homecoming win
• SH: Where does Mississippi stand with COVID-19 as delta wave slows and holidays ahead?
• SH: Biloxi casinos have their best year ever, topping $1 billion in revenue
• CL: Mississippi is buying more wine and liquor than ever. Can the state warehouse keep up?
• SH: Popular WLOX anchor loses job for refusing to get COVID vaccine. ‘I preserved my integrity.’
• CL: Tracking COVID-19 in Mississippi: 2,071 new coronavirus cases reported Thursday
• SH: MS is using the most COVID antibody treatments in US as feds limit states’ supplies

Politics and Government

• CL: Mississippi teachers have some of the lowest pay in the region, analysis shows
• OH: Haley Barbour Warns There is No ‘This Wave’ for GOP in 2022 Yet
• DCN: Watson fights to protect election integrity
• CL: Mississippi prepares to execute David Neal Cox for wife’s 2010 murder
• DJ: Bennie Thompson backs area prosecutor Scott Colom for federal bench vacancy
• AP: Award-winning Mississippi newspaper editor Mosby dies at 70
• CL: Mississippi is getting $4.8B for infrastructure. How much will go to fixing Jackson water?
• WAPT: Mississippi legislatures urge governor to call special session to address agenda, including medical marijuana
• WLOX: Up in smoke? Reeves won’t call special session until ‘additional adjustments’ made to medical marijuana legislation
• WJTV: Secretary Watson encourages Mississippians to vote on Election Day

Blog

• JJ: Express Grain Collapse Over $100 Million
• YALL: State Senate District 32 special election runoff is Tuesday
• YALL: Biden, Pelosi’s “Build Back Better” social spending bill would expand Medicaid in Mississippi
• JJ: For Sale
• MT: Cable giants, Mississippi electric cooperatives battle over federal broadband dollars
• JJ: Feds Give Jackson $500,000 to Hire Police
• NW: Mississippi Governor Calls for Removal of Critical Race Theory, Which Isn’t Being Taught
• JJ: When Crisler Bragged about Being Shot
• MT: How are other states spending COVID-19 stimulus money?
• YALL: YP Daily Roundup 11/16/21