The Yazoo Herald
Residents Continue To Wait For Backwater Pumps
By Jamie Patterson
Residents are still demanding answers and relief when it comes to the status of the Yazoo Backwater Area Pumps Project.
Town hall meetings and panels of elected and federal officials have recently held meetings...
Alabama Today
Steve Marshall joins nine attorneys general to call for state adoption of The Women’s Bill of Rights
By Beth Cann
Today, ten attorneys general announced their support for the Women’s Bill of Rights (WBOR). The group also is urging other state attorneys general nationwide to pledge...
WJTV-TV Jackson
Congressional leaders react to Jackson’s water crisis
By Kaitlin Howell
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Congressional leaders from Mississippi reacted to the water crisis in Jackson after Governor Tate Reeves (R-Miss.) declared a state of emergency.
I have long supported federal efforts...
Ripon Advance
Rounds sponsors Security to Avoid Violence in Educational Settings Act
By Ripon Advance News Service
U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) recently proposed legislation to create a new U.S. Department of Justice grant program that would reallocate $500 million in funding over five years to...
Delta Democrat Times (Greenville, MS)
Ground Broken for New Courthouse
By Staff Reports
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Mississippi, U.S. Senators Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith, U.S. Congressman Bennie Thompson and Mayor...
DeltaNews.TV Greenville
Greenville's New Courthouse Groundbreaking Ceremony
Sykina Butts
GREENVILLE - Municipal and federal officials got together for the groundbreaking ceremony for Greenville’s new federal courthouse that will be built at the end of Washington Avenue. Several officials...
Y’all Politics
Hyde-Smith pushes for Yazoo Backwater Pumps at Wicker, Thompson flood control meetings
Interagency Working Group convenes in Mississippi to learn more on desperate South Delta flood control needs.
By Anne Summerhays
On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) and U.S...
SuperTalk Mississippi News
Mississippi delegation pushes for completion of Yazoo Pumps
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, Senator Roger Wicker, and Vicksburg Mayor George Flaggs were in attendance for the event.
By Kelly Bennett
The back-and-forth over whether or not to finish the Congress-approved Yazoo...
Mississippi Today
Johnson sworn in as first woman judge in Mississippi’s southern district
By Mina Corpuz
The first woman judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi has joined the bench.
A formal investiture ceremony was held last week for Judge Kristi Haskins...
The Waterways Journal Weekly
‘Team Mississippi’ Celebrates Channel Deepening
By Frank McCormack
The Mississippi River, from its headwaters at Lake Itaska to where its passes stretch into the Gulf of Mexico like a taloned bird’s foot, has played a leading role in the culture, psyche, economy and...
