Delta Business Journal
Yazoo Backwater: EPA Decision Halts Construction of Pumps
By Becky Gillette
There was light at the end of the tunnel. Now it is dark again. That is how the recent decision by the EPA to veto the Yazoo Backwater Pumps flood control project for the second time was described...
Y’all Politics
Wicker, Hyde-Smith, Guest react to December jobs report showing fewest added in any month of 2021
Unemployment falls to 3.9%, economy added 199,000 jobs.
By Anne Summerhays
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that during the month of December the total nonfarm...
WDAM-TV Hattiesburg
6 Miss. school districts to receive DOJ grants for violence reduction initiatives
By WDAM Staff
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WDAM) - On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith highlighted the award of more than $2.77 million in U.S. Department of Justice grants for violence reduction...
DeSoto County News
Hyde-Smith, Wicker, Kelly join to ask SCOTUS stop Biden vaccine mandates
By Bob Bakken
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., Monday joined 45 Senators and 136 Representatives in filing an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States...
Clarksville (Tenn.) Online
Marsha Blackburn, Roger Marshall, Colleagues Lead Opposition to Joe Biden’s Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers
By News Staff
Nashville, TN – U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), M.D. are continuing their charge against harmful...
Huron County (Mich.) View
McClain, Thune introduce legislation to protect toddlers from federal mandates
Huron County View
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) and U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D) introduced the Preventing Mandates on Toddlers Act. This bicameral legislation would...
Monroe Journal
Port of Aberdeen receives $4 million federal grant for rail spur
By Ray Van Dusen
ABERDEEN – The Port of Aberdeen was one of two Mississippi recipients announced Dec. 23 to receive a shared $8.14 million for infrastructure funding through the U.S. Department of Transportation...
WJTV-TV Jackson
Two Mississippi ports receive $8M in infrastructure funding
By: Cianna Reeves
MONROE COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – More than $8 million in U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) grant funding will go toward rail projects at two Mississippi ports, Port Bienville in Hancock County and the...
The Hill
Sounding the alarm on the administration's recent action on abortion pills
By Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-Tenn.) and Marjorie Dannenfelser, Opinion Contributors
Last week, Joe Biden’s Food & Drug Administration (FDA) severely weakened longstanding federal safety regulations on chemical...
Mississippi Today
Biden appoints Mississippian Corey Wiggins to lead Delta Regional Authority
By Bobby Harrison
Corey Wiggins, the executive director of the Mississippi chapter of the NAACP, has been appointed by President Joe Biden to serve as the federal co-chair for the Delta Regional...
