Brookhaven Daily Leader
Brookhaven airport plan is ‘coming together’
By Donna Campbell
The city is taking bids through July for a taxiway extension project at the Brookhaven-Lincoln County Airport, which will be funded from a $190,000 Federal Aviation Grant.
The taxiway is part of a 20-year, $12...
Vicksburg Post
Federal flood solutions face slow progress
By Tim Reeves
By air it looks bad. In person, on the ground, or in a boat, it’s far worse.
For U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, the devastation of the ongoing flood in the Yazoo Backwater Area, in the Delta and along the Mississippi River has...
WJTV-TV Jackson
The Vicksburg National Military Park received its largest expansion on Tuesday, July 2.
By Shay O'Connor
HINDS COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – The Vicksburg National Military Park received its largest expansion on Tuesday, July 2.
The State of Mississippi donated more than 800 acres to...
Washington Free Beacon
GOP Lawmakers Ask HHS to Eliminate Abortion Charges
Letter asks HHS to finalize proposed rule on Obamacare exchanges
By Patrick Hauf
More than 120 members of Congress are asking the Department of Health and Human Services to finalize a new rule that would prevent Obamacare...
Catholic News Agency
End 'hidden abortion surcharge' in Affordable Care Act, lawmakers tell HHS
Washington D.C., Jul 3, 2019 / 11:00 am (CNA). - Over 125 members of Congress and other pro-life leaders have asked the Trump administration to clarify how abortion coverage is listed in healthcare...
Vicksburg Post
VNMP unveils largest expansion in its history
By John Surratt
Tuesday morning at Champion Hill Missionary Baptist Church, the site of what was the front lawn of the Champion Plantation and the site of the Battle of Champion Hill in May 1863, history was made a second time.
During...
WLBT-TV, Jackson
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith optimistic about response to installing pumps to deal with flooding
By Maggie Wade
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Mississippi Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith says she is optimistic about pumps being installed in the lower Mississippi Delta to deal with...
Sun Herald, Biloxi
Gulfport’s USM Marine Research Center gets $2 million grant for upgrades
Sun Herald
The University of Southern Mississippi Marine Research Center is getting a $2 million grant from RESTORE Act funds connected to the BP oil spill, the state’s congressional representatives...
Washington Examiner
OPINION
Top female GOP senators just introduced a bill to fight the abhorrent practice of female genital mutilation
By Andrea G. Bottner
Most Americans are shocked to hear that more than 200 million young women and girls around the world have been subjected to the barbaric...
Vicksburg Post
Vicksburg National Military Park set for huge expansion next month
By The Associated Press
The Champion Hill Battlefield site is expanding with the transfer of more than 800 acres of land from the state of Mississippi, the largest expansion of the Vicksburg National Military Park...
