Indianola Enterprise-Tocsin
Hyde-Smith Cosponsors Rural Hospital Closure Relief Act
TUE, 06/09/2020
U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today announced her support for legislation to help financially vulnerable rural hospitals keep their doors open by expanding eligibility to higher Medicare...
Y’all Politics
Senate Judiciary Committee could advance Cory Wilson’s 5th Circuit confirmation Thursday
By Frank Corder - June 9, 2020
The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary is scheduled to meet this Thursday to consider the nomination of Mississippi’s Cory Wilson for a lifetime judicial...
WJTV-TV Jackson
Mississippi guardsmen welcomed by senators in Washington, D.C.
News
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – On Friday, U.S. Senators Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith welcomed Mississippi Guardsmen to Washington, D.C.
The troops traveled as a request of the Pentagon and are working with local...
McComb Enterprise-Journal
Mental health to get $659K in federal funds
June 4, 2020
Southwest Mississippi Mental Health Complex in McComb will receive $659,092 in Federal Communications Commission funds to expand telemedicine offerings during the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith...
Vicksburg Post
VIDEO: Hyde-Smith urges pump advocates to keep making their voices heard
By Staff Reports
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) Thursday urged state residents to not miss the June 15 deadline to submit public comments on a new review on the Yazoo Backwater Area...
Feedstuffs
USDA food box program delivers 5m boxes
First round of $1 billion in Farmers to Families Food Box Program funding ends June 30, with some contracts extended starting June 15.
Bu Jacqui Fatka
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers to Families Food Box Program has distributed more...
Pontotoc Progress
Airport receives $30,000 grant from government CARES money
By Regina Butler
The Pontotoc County Airport received an unexpected boon from the government recently because of the Covid-19 virus.
“There were airports that needed extra cash flow,” explained Pontotoc County Chancery...
WJTV-TV Jackson
U.S. Lawmakers react to protests over George Floyd’s death
News
VICKSBURG, Miss. (WJTV) – U.S. lawmakers from Mississippi reacted to the national protests on police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.
12 News talked to Congressman Bennie Thompson about...
Christian News Network
78 Members of Congress Support HHS Rule Protecting Healthcare Workers Who Decline to Perform Abortions
By Heather Clark
WASHINGTON — Numerous state attorneys general and 78 members of Congress have signed on to amicus briefs supporting a new rule issued by the U.S...
Winston County Journal
Catfish Producers Can Make Case for Relief Funds
By Susan Collins-Smith, MSU Extension Service
RAYMOND, Miss. -- Catfish producers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic have the opportunity to provide the U.S. Department of Agriculture information on why they should be...
