Mississippi gets $8 million for home meal delivery program

WGNO-TV New Orleans

Mississippi gets $8 million for home meal delivery program

Posted: Apr 23, 2020 / 01:15 AM CDT / Updated: Apr 22, 2020 / 10:07 PM CDT

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith announced Mississippi will receive $7,992,629 from HHS Administration for Community...

Hyde-Smith encourages FDA to approve ventilator created at UMMC

News Mississippi

Hyde-Smith encourages FDA to approve ventilator created at UMMC

By Steven Gagliano

U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith is encouraging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve the use of a cost-effective ventilator developed by a doctor at the University of Mississippi...

COVID-19 hotspots, rural hospitals to score half of $40B CARES grants

Modern Healthcare

COVID-19 hotspots, rural hospitals to score half of $40B CARES grants

By Rachel Cohrs 

HHS officials Wednesday said the department will distribute $40 billion in federal grant funds with carveouts for providers in COVID-19 hotspots and rural areas, and will reimburse providers...

Hyde-Smith among Senators calling for updates to 5G Fund maps

Y’all Politics

Hyde-Smith among Senators calling for updates to 5G Fund maps

By YallPolitics Staff

Today, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), James Lankford (R-OK), Jon Tester (D-MT), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to update the broadband coverage...

Nearly 20 area houses damaged Sunday

McComb Enterprise-Journal 

Nearly 20 area houses damaged Sunday

By Matt Williamson

Seventeen homes in southwest Mississippi were damaged in Sunday's storm that spawned a tornado and killed one person in Mississippi, the state's Emergency Management Agency confirmed Tuesday.

The National Weather...

Senate passes $484 billion relief package

News Mississippi

Senate passes $484 billion relief package

By J.T. Mitchell

This afternoon, the United States Senate passed a $484 billion coronavirus-relief package that will go towards small businesses, hospitals, and test expansion.

Of the $484 billion, $310 billion will be used for keeping...

Republicans Urge Trump to Maintain Pro-Life Policies During Pandemic

Breitbart 

Republicans Urge Trump to Maintain Pro-Life Policies During Pandemic

By Dr. Susan Berry

House and Senate Republicans urged the Trump administration to maintain its pro-life policies amid the Democrat push to ease restrictions on both the use of aborted fetal tissue to create a vaccine...

Senator Hyde-Smith works to reopen the economy

News Mississippi

Senator Hyde-Smith works to reopen the economy

By J.T. Mitchell

Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who was recently appointed to the Opening Up America Congressional Group, joined Monday’s episode of The Gallo Show to express the importance of reopening the American economy in...